📏 Form Guide

Nagoya Grampus

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Nagoya Grampus will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-1 J1 League losing effort in their last game against Vissel Kobe.

In that game, Nagoya Grampus had 50% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Nagoya Grampus, the goalscorers were Takuya Uchida (44' Own goal) and Teruki Hara (57'). On the other side, Vissel Kobe had 21 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Taisei Miyashiro (45') was the scorer for Vissel Kobe.

In their past six games, Kenta Hasegawa's Nagoya Grampus have netted a combined total of 8 times which gives them an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Coming into this fixture, Nagoya Grampus have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Shimizu S-Pulse

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In the game prior to this, Shimizu S-Pulse drew 0-0 in the J1 League tie with Gamba Osaka.

In that game, Shimizu S-Pulse had 40% possession and 16 shots on goal with 8 on target. Gamba Osaka got 17 shots on goal with 6 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Shimizu S-Pulse have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 10 goals in all. In defence, Shimizu S-Pulse just haven’t been too solid at all.

Pre-game facts show that Shimizu S-Pulse:

• remain undefeated by Nagoya Grampus when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 29/08/2021 shows us that Nagoya Grampus have won 3 of these games and Shimizu S-Pulse 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

In all, 11 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for N. Grampus and 4 coming from Shimizu. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league fixture between these clubs was J1 League match day 14 on 03/05/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Shimizu S-Pulse 0-3 Nagoya Grampus.

That day, Shimizu S-Pulse had 53% possession and 8 shots on goal with 0 on target.

Nagoya Grampus got 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Sho Inagaki (36'), Ryuji Izumi (48') and Keiya Shiihashi (50') scored.

The referee was Hiroki Kasahara.

📋 Team News: Nagoya Grampus

Yuya Yamagishi (Knee medial ligament tear) and Daniel Schmidt (Hip injury) won’t be playing for Nagoya Grampus gaffer Kenta Hasegawa.

✨ Prediction

In our opinion, Shimizu S-Pulse will need to put in a solid display to see themselves scoring against this Nagoya Grampus team who we think will likely get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a 1-0 victory for Nagoya Grampus at the end of the 90 minutes.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

Lucas Pereira, 09:01 21/06/2025