National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Nagoya Grampus or Yokohama that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nagoya Grampus form and stats
Last season their J-League Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals against Urawa Reds.Only two J-League home games for Nagoya Grampus so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
A good away victory last time out for Nagoya Grampus, who won 3-1 against Albirex Niigata. The attacker Mateus won the honour of being "man of the match" for Nagoya Grampus with a rating of 8.41/10. Mateus hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit four key passes and had 39 successful passes (of 47 total).
Before that one, a nice away win at Sanfrecce Hiroshima. A J-League Cup match.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Nagoya Grampus, as the J-League home game vs Urawa Reds is only four days away.
Nagoya Grampus has scored {1 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
Yokohama form and stats
Yokohama's mission in J-League Cup last season failed in the group stage.The J-League season is young and Yokohama have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.
There were no winners in Yokohama's previous match, the home game that ended 1-1 vs Avispa Fukuoka. Mita got a match rating of 7.82 in that game, top player of the team. Mita dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
The game before that was the J-League Cup-duel against Vissel Kobe, a home defeat (0-1).
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The J-League trip to Yokohama F. Marinos.
It's early days yet, but Yokohama has scored 3 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Nagoya Grampus four wins, two draws and Yokohama three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  K. Ogawa 5 goals |   K. Nagai 3 goals |  K. Junker 3 goals |
Nagoya Grampus missing players
Yokohama missing players
| Nagoya Grampus | Yokohama | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Won | W | 5 | 9 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 11 | ||
| 28 | 10 | Scored | S | 19 | 33 | ||
| 22 | 11 | Conceded | C | 20 | 39 | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 60% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 24% | ||
| 36% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 20% | ||
| 3.3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 0.8 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.1 | 1.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.3 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 9.8 | ||
| 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 29% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 32% | ||
| 11.1 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.2 | 11.9 | ||
| 3.6 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nagoya Grampus | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Vissel Kobe | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| 4 | Yokohama | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vissel Kobe | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 15 |
| 2 | Nagoya Grampus | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Urawa Reds | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Avispa Fukuoka | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | Kyoto Sanga | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Shonan Bellmare | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | Tokyo | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Cerezo Osaka | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | Kawasaki Frontale | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Albirex Niigata | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 13 | Kashima Antlers | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 14 | Sagan Tosu | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 7 |
| 15 | Consadole Sapporo | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 16 | Gamba Osaka | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -8 | 3 |
| 17 | Yokohama | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 2 |
| 18 | Kashiwa Reysol | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -8 | 2 |
