In this week 37 match on the 27th of November, Nagoya Grampus will travel to Osaka to battle Cerezo Osaka in a meeting of these two J-League teams. Cerezo Osaka sits at 11th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-4 loss against Kawasaki Frontale. da Silva dos Santos scored the first goal for Kawasaki Frontale in the 5th minute, then Leandro Damiao da Silva dos Santos added another in the 40th minute. Cerezo Osaka is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, Nagoya Grampus recorded a 3-1 win against Gamba Osaka. Jakub Świerczok scored the first goal for Nagoya Grampus in the 8th minute, then Yoichiro Kakitani added another in the 22nd minute on a feed from Naoki Maeda. Nagoya Grampus should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches.
On May 8th, Nagoya Grampus hosted Cerezo Osaka at the Nagoya Mizuho Athletic Stadium in their last match together. Nagoya Grampus won by a score of 1 to 0. Yutaka Yoshida scored the first goal for Nagoya Grampus in the 66th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Cerezo Osaka was frustrated by Nagoya Grampus’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Nagoya Grampus ended the match with the shutout victory.
Nagoya Grampus is fortunate enough to have Jakub Świerczok in top form. In the last 5 matches the attacker has scored 4 goals. M. Kato has been the most prolific scorer on Cerezo Osaka in the last 5 matches with 2 goals.