📏 Form Guide

Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 2-0 J1 League triumph against Tokyo Verdy.

In that match, Urawa Red Diamonds had 55% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For Urawa Red Diamonds, the goalscorers were Yusuke Matsuo (6') and Ryoma Watanabe (31'). Tokyo Verdy had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Their most recent results really do illustrate the point that there has been much resilience in the Urawa Red Diamonds defence. Urawa Red Diamonds have been stingy, with the tally of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their previous 6 clashes standing at 3. We will have to find out if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Coming into this meeting, Urawa Red Diamonds are undefeated in their previous 6 league matches at home.

Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka will go into the encounter after a 4-0 J1 League win with the defeat of Shonan Bellmare in their most recent fixture.

In that game, Gamba Osaka managed 34% possession and 15 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Gamba Osaka, the scorers were Deniz Hümmet (2'), Takeru Kishimoto (13', 29') and Shinnosuke Nakatani (35'). Shonan Bellmare got 15 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

Throughout their six latest matches, Daniel Poyatos's Gamba Osaka have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 10 times thus earning them the goals per game average of 1.67.

Ahead of this meeting, Gamba Osaka are without an away win for the past 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 14/05/2023 shows us that Urawa Red Diamonds have won 5 of these and Gamba Osaka 1, with the number of drawn results being 0.

A sum of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 of them for Reds and 3 being from Gamba Osaka. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The last league encounter featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 30 on 14/09/2024 and the score finished Gamba Osaka 0-1 Urawa Red Diamonds.

On that day, Gamba Osaka had 60% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

Urawa Red Diamonds had 8 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Takahiro Sekine (49') scored.

The referee was Futoshi Nakamura.

📰 Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the sole fitness concern for the Urawa Red Diamonds gaffer Maciej Skorża to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust squad. Kai Shibato (Knee surgery) misses out.

📋 Team News: Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka manager Daniel Poyatos has not got a full squad to pick from. Genta Miura (Cruciate ligament injury) and Welton (Torn ankle ligaments) will not be playing here.

💭 Prediction

We feel that Gamba Osaka might have a difficult job to register a score against this Urawa Red Diamonds outfit who we think should gain the upper hand.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a 1-0 winning margin for Urawa Red Diamonds at the conclusion of the game.

Should be a close one.

Renata Leite, 04:09 06/05/2025