📏 Form Guide

Kyoto Sanga

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Kyoto Sanga won’t want a repeat of their last result here following a 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 shots on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Sanfrecce Hiroshima had 16 shots on 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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In their previous fixture, V-Varen Nagasaki drew 2-2 in the J1 100 Year Vision League tie with Vissel Kobe.

In that game, V-Varen Nagasaki managed 42% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For V-Varen Nagasaki, the goalscorers were Hotaru Yamaguchi (21') and Eduardo (45'). At the other end, Vissel Kobe got 15 shots on goal with 6 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 most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 21/09/2019 shows us that Kyoto Sanga have won 2 of these and V-Varen Nagasaki 4, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A sum of 12 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for Kyoto and 8 coming from VVN. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 7 on 18/03/2026 when the final score was V-Varen Nagasaki 1-2 Kyoto Sanga.

That time, V-Varen Nagasaki managed 46% possession and 12 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Santana (5').

At the other end, Kyoto Sanga had 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Masaya Okugawa (42') and Trevisan (75') scored.

ℹ️ Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Shimpei Fukuoka (Meniscus injury) and Marco Túlio (Adductor injury) are unavailable for Kyoto Sanga manager 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, 01:03 23/05/2026