📏 Form Guide

Kawasaki Frontale

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Kawasaki Frontale will be looking for another win after a 2-0 J1 League triumph vs Cerezo Osaka.

In that match, Kawasaki Frontale managed 47% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Kawasaki Frontale was Erison (85', 88'). For their opponents, Cerezo Osaka had 11 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target.

Matches with Kawasaki Frontale have tended to be lively affairs lately with high scoring being the norm. Over their past 6 games, the sum total of 20 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 11 of those coming from Kawasaki Frontale.

Taking a look at their past results, Kawasaki Frontale:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Urawa Red Diamonds in their previous 4 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 5 league matches at home.

Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds will go into this encounter after a 3-2 J1 League win in the defeat of FC Tokyo in their last game.

In that match, Urawa Red Diamonds managed 53% possession and 22 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Urawa Red Diamonds, the goals were scored by Hirokazu Ishihara (32') and Taishi Matsumoto (80', 93'). At the other end, FC Tokyo got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Marcelo Ryan (9') and Keita Endo (68') scored for FC Tokyo.

In the course of their six most recent matches, Maciej Skorża's Urawa Red Diamonds have had reason to celebrate scoring a total of 10 times thus earning them a goals per game average of 1.67.

Their past results show that Urawa Red Diamonds:

• are winless against Kawasaki Frontale in games played away from home for the previous 6 league games. Not good at all.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings going back to 05/04/2023, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Kawasaki Frontale winning 1 of those games, Urawa Red Diamonds 1 and 4 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 7 for Frontale and 6 netted by Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league match between the two was J1 League match day 28 on 22/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Urawa Red Diamonds 1-1 Kawasaki Frontale.

In that match, Urawa Red Diamonds had 43% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Ryoma Watanabe (23').

Kawasaki Frontale got 10 shots on goal with 2 on target. Yū Kobayashi (54') scored.

The match was refereed by Masuya Ueda.

📰 Team News: Kawasaki Frontale

Geun-hyeong Lee (Meniscus tear), Jesiel (Hamstring injury), Shintaro Kurumaya (Adductor injury) and Yu Kobayashi (Acromioclavicular joint dislocation) will be missing for Kawasaki Frontale boss Shigetoshi Hasebe.

🗞️ Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

Due to a mostly available group, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Urawa Red Diamonds boss Maciej Skorża to contend with. Kai Shibato (Knee surgery) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Urawa Red Diamonds will need to apply a lot of pressure to break down this Kawasaki Frontale side who should just have the edge.

We therefore fancy a very even match with a 1-0 winning margin for Kawasaki Frontale when the referee blows for full-time.

It should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 09:09 21/05/2025