The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel
Match26 Aug 2026
Nagoya Grampus bow out of the cup
Kashima Antlers go through and Nagoya Grampus go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Yohei Takeda keeps Nagoya Grampus in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Kensuke Nagai, 37, rolls back the years — 8.18
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.18 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Too dear: Nagoya Grampus walk away from Tomoya Inukai
$22.0K was the most the club would pay and Kashiwa Reysol were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nagoya Grampus
Teruki Hara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Mateus Castro sends Nagoya Grampus past Vissel Kobe
It finished 2‑1, and it was Mateus Castro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nagoya Grampus.
Market31 Aug 2026
Queens Park Rangers join the queue for Alex Kouto Horio Pisano
Add another name to the list: Queens Park Rangers have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alex Kouto Horio Pisano. The answer from Nagoya Grampus has not changed — yet.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Yuya Yamagishi gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Mateus Castro runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- The dugout Hiroki Inoue has his say
- The dugout Mateus Castro left out for tactical reasons at Nagoya Grampus
- The dugout Shuhei Tokumoto gets picked when it counts