📊 Form Guide

V-Varen Nagasaki

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V-Varen Nagasaki will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 1-2 J1 100 Year Vision League losing effort in their last game against Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, V-Varen Nagasaki had 50% possession and 18 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. The scorer for V-Varen Nagasaki was Santana (29'). On the other side, Nagoya Grampus got 12 shots at goal with 6 on target. Kensuke Nagai (34', 54') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

V-Varen Nagasaki have really struggled up front in recent times. Their goals record stands at just 4 versus opponents over their last 6 fixtures. In those meetings, V-Varen Nagasaki have also seen the number of goals scored against them come to 10. Previous results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern will continue on in this next match.

Fagiano Okayama

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Fagiano Okayama come into this match following a 1-0 J1 100 Year Vision League win with the eclipse of Sanfrecce Hiroshima in their previous outing.

In that game, Fagiano Okayama had 40% possession and 13 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Sanfrecce Hiroshima had 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Over the course of their last half-dozen outings, Fagiano Okayama have bagged a total of 8 goals. Fagiano Okayama have also scored in every single one of those games. During those fixtures, their defenders have had 12 goals go against them.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 17/09/2022 shows that V-Varen Nagasaki have won 1 of them and Fagiano Okayama 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

9 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 3 of them from VVN and 6 belonging to Okayama. That’s an average goals per game of 1.5.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 8 on 21/03/2026 when the final score was Fagiano Okayama 0-1 V-Varen Nagasaki.

That time, Fagiano Okayama managed 55% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

At the other end, V-Varen Nagasaki got 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. Ryogo Yamasaki (90') was the scorer.

📰 Team News: V-Varen Nagasaki

In our view, VVN will probably make use of the 3-4-2-1 system for this one, handing starts to Go Hatano, Hijiri Onaga, Eduardo, Hayato Teruyama, Masahiro Sekiguchi, Riku Yamada, Diego Pituca, Keita Takahata, Motoki Hasegawa, Yuto Iwasaki and Thiago Santana.

ℹ️ Team News: Fagiano Okayama

We are inclined to think that Fagiano Okayama might elect for a 3-4-2-1 formation, settling for Lennart Moser, Yugo Tatsuta, Daichi Tagami, Hiroshi Omori, Kosuke Shirai, Kosei Ogura, Masaya Matsumoto, Noah Kenshin Browne, Kazunari Ichimi, Ataru Esaka and Werik Popo.

⚡ Prediction

It seems to us that Fagiano Okayama and V-Varen Nagasaki could both end up scoring in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating these two teams.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore see a tight encounter, finishing with a 1-1 score draw when the full-time whistle blows.

Peter Guest, 03:02 06/05/2026