Ōmiya Ardija will be looking for another win after a 1-2 J. League Cup success against FC Gifu.
It’s not been often in recent times that Ōmiya Ardija have shown defensive steel. The facts show that Ōmiya Ardija have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 12 goals along the way.
Nagoya Grampus go into this clash after a 0-1 J1 League win in the defeat of Júbilo Iwata in their most recent fixture.
In that match, Nagoya Grampus had 36% possession and 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nagoya Grampus was Ken Masui (8\'). Jubilo Iwata had 12 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.
A succession of resolute displays from the Nagoya Grampus defensive unit has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 3 from their last 6 fixtures in total. Over that same time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 7. Let’s see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.
Head to head
Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels stretching back to 10/07/2013, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Ōmiya Ardija winning 3 of those games, Nagoya Grampus 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.
A sum of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 from Omiya and 8 belonging to N. Grampus. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.67.
The previous league game featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 1 on 02/07/2016 when the final score was Ōmiya Ardija 1-0 Nagoya Grampus.
The match was refereed by Jumpei Iida.
Team News: Ōmiya Ardija
The Ōmiya Ardija boss has zero fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this game thanks to a fully healthy squad available to select from.
Team News: Nagoya Grampus
Nagoya Grampus boss Kenta Hasegawa has multiple availability issues to deal with. Masahito Ono (Hamstring injury) and Kasper Junker (Meniscus injury) are not able to play.
Prediction
We’re of the opinion that Ōmiya Ardija may find it difficult to find the net against this Nagoya Grampus side who we think might emerge victorious.
We’re therefore predicting a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Nagoya Grampus at the conclusion of the game. Let’s see how it plays out.
