Nagoya Grampus vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus enter this match following on from a 1-1 J1 League stalemate versus Kawasaki Frontale.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus managed 41% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nagoya Grampus was Sho Inagaki (74'). Kawasaki Frontale had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Kento Tachibanada (61') scored for Kawasaki Frontale.

Under three goals per match were scored during 5 of the past 6 meetings where Nagoya Grampus have taken part. In terms of the goal attribution in that period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 5 while Nagoya Grampus totted up 5.

Going into this encounter, Nagoya Grampus have not won against Sanfrecce Hiroshima in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Kawasaki Frontale in J1 League action, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima managed 41% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Kawasaki Frontale got 15 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. Akihiro Ienaga (34', 78'), Yasuto Wakizaka (59') and Kei Chinen (68') scored for Kawasaki Frontale.

Demonstrating their penchant for action-packed matches, goals have been celebrated 24 times in the prior 6 games in which Sanfrecce Hiroshima have taken to the field, giving a mean average of 4 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have got 9 from this total. That pattern won’t necessarily be continued into this match, however.

Going into this contest, Sanfrecce Hiroshima are winless against Nagoya Grampus when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league games. Not good at all.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 19/12/2020 tells us that Nagoya Grampus have won 2 of these games & Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4, with the tally of drawn games being 0.

An aggregate of 9 goals were produced between them in these games, with 3 of them for N. Grampus and 6 for Sanfrecce. The average goals per game has been 1.5.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 16 on 28/05/2022 which ended up with the score at Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-0 Nagoya Grampus.

On that occasion, Sanfrecce Hiroshima managed 48% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Gakuto Notsuda (58').

Nagoya Grampus had 10 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Yuichi Nishimura.

📋 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Mateus (Medial Collateral Ligament Injury) and Kazuki Nagasawa (Meniscal Injury) won’t be playing for Nagoya Grampus manager Kenta Hasegawa.

We think that Nagoya Grampus will possibly go for a 3-1-4-2 formation for this one, beginning the first half with Mitchell Langerak, Shinnosuke Nakatani, Tiago Pagnussat, Haruya Fujii, Sho Inagaki, Ryoya Morishita, Ryota Nagaki, Takuya Uchida, Yuki Soma, Keiya Sento and Kensuke Nagai.

🗞️ Team News: Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Owing to an otherwise healthy group, there is just the lone fitness issue for the Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Michael Skibbe to be concerned with. Shunki Higashi (Compartment syndrome) misses out for this game.

There’s a good chance that Sanfrecce might utilise a 3-4-2-1 lineup using Keisuke Osako, Tsukasa Shiotani, Hayato Araki, Sho Sasaki, Makoto Mitsuta, Yoshifumi Kashiwa, Taishi Matsumoto, Gakuto Notsuda, Tsukasa Morishima, Douglas Vieira and Nassim Ben Khalifa.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Nagoya Grampus could find themselves up against it to find the net against this Sanfrecce Hiroshima lineup who should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

We therefore fancy a very competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the end of the 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Victor Martins, 01:50 13/09/2022