📊 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-2 J1 100 Year Vision League victory versus V-Varen Nagasaki.

In that match, Nagoya Grampus managed 50% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Nagoya Grampus was Kensuke Nagai (34', 54'). For their opponents, V-Varen Nagasaki got 18 shots at goal with 9 on target. Santana (29') was the scorer for V-Varen Nagasaki.

Nagoya Grampus have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They have totted up the amount of 12 during that period and have conceded a total of 7.

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will go into this game following on from a 5-0 J1 100 Year Vision League win with the downing of Vissel Kobe in their previous outing.

In that match, Gamba Osaka managed 35% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Gamba Osaka, the goalscorers were Harumi Minamino (22', 52'), Genta Miura (36'), Kanji Okunuki (80') and Deniz Hümmet (82'). On the other side, Vissel Kobe had 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

The stats tell the story, and Gamba Osaka have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 7 goals overall. At the back, Gamba Osaka just haven’t been too solid at all. Despite that, we will just have to wait and see if the trend will be sustained in this game.

👥 Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 21/10/2023 shows us that Nagoya Grampus have won 1 of these games and Gamba Osaka 4, with the number of drawn results being 1.

A combined total of 11 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 3 from N. Grampus and 8 for Gamba Osaka. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.83.

The last league encounter between these clubs was J1 100 Year Vision League match day 2 on 15/02/2026 when the final score was Gamba Osaka 0-0 Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Gamba Osaka managed 50% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 7 on target.

For their opponents, Nagoya Grampus had 21 shots at goal with 9 on target.

ℹ️ Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Tomoya Koyamatsu (Meniscus damage), Tsukasa Morishima (Hamstring injury), Ryuji Izumi (Hamstring injury), Marcus Vinicius (Tibia and fibula fracture) and Yota Sato (Fracture of the eye socket) will be missing for Nagoya Grampus boss Mihailo Petrović.

📋 Team News: Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka manager Jens Wissing has some current player fitness concerns. Shota Fukuoka (Hamstring injury), Jun Ichimori (Finger injury), Riku Handa (Cruciate ligament injury), Shogo Sasaki (Hamstring injury), Asahi Uenaka (Meniscus damage) and Yuya Yokoi (Cruciate ligament injury) will miss out on this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Gamba Osaka and Nagoya Grampus should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. That is why we are leaning toward a very close game with a 1-1 score draw when all is said and done.

Peter Guest, 04:03 06/05/2026