📏 Form Guide

Kyoto Sanga

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Kyoto Sanga won’t want a repeat of their last result here after the 0-4 J1 100 Year Vision League defeat in their last game at the hands of Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

In that match, Kyoto Sanga had 56% possession and 3 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Sanfrecce Hiroshima got 16 shots at goal with 8 on target. Sōta Nakamura (29'), Akito Suzuki (49'), Mutsuki Kato (51') and Taishi Matsumoto (75') scored for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

Kyoto Sanga haven’t made the most of their chances in recent times. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 3 vs opposing sides during the course of their last six matches. In those games, Kyoto Sanga have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 12.

V-Varen Nagasaki

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Last time out, V-Varen Nagasaki drew 2-2 in the J1 100 Year Vision League tie with Vissel Kobe.

In that match, V-Varen Nagasaki had 42% possession and 12 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. For V-Varen Nagasaki, the scorers were Hotaru Yamaguchi (21') and Eduardo (45'). Vissel Kobe got 15 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Yoshinori Muto (27') and Thuler (32') scored for Vissel Kobe. V-Varen Nagasaki won the match 3-2 in a dramatic penalty shootout.

V-Varen Nagasaki have been good when going forward in their most recent fixtures, having scored 10 goals in their last 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that V-Varen Nagasaki have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 6 of those same games. In any event, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend will be sustained in this upcoming match or not.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 21/09/2019 tells us that Kyoto Sanga have won 2 of these & V-Varen Nagasaki 4, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

A combined sum of 12 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 4 of them from Kyoto and 8 for VVN. The average goals per game has been 2.

The last league encounter between the two was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 7 on 18/03/2026 and the score finished V-Varen Nagasaki 1-2 Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, V-Varen Nagasaki managed 46% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Santana (5').

Kyoto Sanga got 14 shots on goal with 5 on target. Masaya Okugawa (42') and Trevisan (75') scored.

📰 Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Shimpei Fukuoka (Meniscus injury) and Marco Túlio (Adductor injury) won’t be available for Kyoto Sanga gaffer Kwi-jae Cho.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that V-Varen Nagasaki will have a tough ask to register a score against this Kyoto Sanga team who will likely be able to grind out a win.

Therefore, we predict a good battle with a 1-0 win for Kyoto Sanga at the end of the 90 minutes.

Looking forward to this.

Victor Martins, 09:03 23/05/2026