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Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 J1 League defeat last time out to Nagoya Grampus.

In that game, Urawa Red Diamonds had 40% possession and 3 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Urawa Red Diamonds was Ryoma Watanabe (51'). For their opponents, Nagoya Grampus got 28 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Sho Inagaki (83') and Kensuke Nagai (93') scored for Nagoya Grampus.

In their past six fixtures, Maciej Skorża's Urawa Red Diamonds have managed to score a total of 8 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Ahead of this meeting, Urawa Red Diamonds are winless against Cerezo Osaka in their previous 4 league matches.

Cerezo Osaka

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Cerezo Osaka come into this match after a 2-0 J1 League win with the downing of Avispa Fukuoka in their most recent game.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka managed 60% possession and 13 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Cerezo Osaka, goals were scored by Masaya Shibayama (84') and Rafael Ratão (98'). On the other side, Avispa Fukuoka had 13 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

In the course of their 6 latest matches, Arthur Papas's Cerezo Osaka have found the back of the net a total of 13 times, earning them the goals per game average of 2.17.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes going back to 25/09/2022 shows that Urawa Red Diamonds have won 1 of these games and Cerezo Osaka 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

In all, 15 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 4 of them from Reds and 11 created by Sakura. The average goals per game has been 2.5.

The previous league game between the two was J1 League match day 7 on 28/03/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Cerezo Osaka 1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that game, Cerezo Osaka managed 48% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Rafael Ratão (2').

Urawa Red Diamonds got 15 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Ryoma Watanabe (83') was the scorer.

The referee was Takafumi Mikuriya.

🗞️ Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Urawa Red Diamonds manager Maciej Skorża to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust set of players. Kai Shibato (Knee surgery) won’t play.

ℹ️ Team News: Cerezo Osaka

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there is only the lone fitness issue for the Cerezo Osaka boss Arthur Papas to be concerned with. Yuichi Hirano (Meniscus injury) won’t be in action.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Cerezo Osaka will need to put in a solid display to get anything against this Urawa Red Diamonds lineup who we think will likely emerge victorious.

Our tip is therefore for a good tussle with a 1-0 winning score for Urawa Red Diamonds when the full-time whistle blows.

Looking forward to this.

Renata Leite, 10:11 28/05/2025