📊 Form Guide

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima are hoping to win again following a 0-4 J1 100 Year Vision League success against Kyoto Sanga.

In that game, Sanfrecce Hiroshima managed 44% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Sanfrecce Hiroshima, goals were scored by Sōta Nakamura (29'), Akito Suzuki (49'), Mutsuki Kato (51') and Taishi Matsumoto (75'). For their opponents, Kyoto Sanga got 3 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

Over their prior six fixtures, Bartosch Gaul's Sanfrecce Hiroshima have netted 10 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.67.

Nagoya Grampus

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Cerezo Osaka in J1 100 Year Vision League action, Nagoya Grampus will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 58% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The only player to score for Nagoya Grampus was Yudai Kimura (42'). At the other end, Cerezo Osaka got 15 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Shunta Tanaka (12'), Yumeki Yokoyama (22', 39'), Andrade (54') and Solomon Sakuragawa (87', 89') scored for Cerezo Osaka.

In their previous six outings, Nagoya Grampus have amassed a total of 11 goals. Nagoya Grampus have additionally got on the scoresheet in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, they’ve had 9 goals scored by their opponents. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 17/08/2024 tells us that Sanfrecce Hiroshima have won 2 of these games & Nagoya Grampus 4, with the tally of draws being 0.

A sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 7 for Sanfrecce and 9 being from N. Grampus. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 7 on 18/03/2026 which ended up with the score at Nagoya Grampus 2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

That time, Nagoya Grampus managed 44% possession and 13 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The goals were scored by Yuya Yamagishi (4') and Yudai Kimura (69').

For their opponents, Sanfrecce Hiroshima got 17 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Akito Suzuki (50') scored.

ℹ️ Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus manager Mihailo Petrović has to currently contend with reduced team options. Tomoya Koyamatsu (Meniscus damage) and Marcus Vinicius (Tibia and fibula fracture) are not ready for selection.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Nagoya Grampus will likely be able to break down this Sanfrecce Hiroshima lineup, however it might not be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re predicting a narrow 2-1 win for Sanfrecce Hiroshima at the end of the 90 minutes. We’ll have to see what happens.

Peter Guest, 01:03 23/05/2026