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Kyoto Sanga vs Urawa Red Diamonds Live Stream, Predictions
📏 Form Guide
Kyoto Sanga
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Kyoto Sanga have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 versus opposition teams during the course of their previous 6 fixtures. In those games, Kyoto Sanga have also seen the tally of goals that have gone against them total 9.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Kyoto Sanga:
- haven't been beaten in the league by Urawa Red Diamonds in their previous 2 matches.
- are without a home win in the past 3 matches in the league.
Urawa Red Diamonds
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Maciej Skorża's Urawa Red Diamonds have converted a total of 7 times in the course of their previous sextet of matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during those same clashes comes to 5.
Looking at their past form shows that Urawa Red Diamonds:
- are undefeated in their last 5 away league matches.
- are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.
🤜🤛 Head to head
A look at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 18/04/2009 shows us that Kyoto Sanga have won 2 of them and Urawa Red Diamonds 3, with the tally of draws being 1.
A sum of 13 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 for Kyoto and 9 for Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.
The previous league game featuring these clubs was J1 League match day 20 on 06/07/2022 which ended up with the score at Urawa Red Diamonds 2-2 Kyoto Sanga.
That day, Urawa Red Diamonds managed 45% possession and 21 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was David Moberg Karlsson (10', 59').
For their opponents, Kyoto Sanga got 7 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Kosuke Taketomi (54') and Fuki Yamada (56') scored.
The referee was Futoshi Nakamura.
🧠 Prediction
Here is a game where Kyoto Sanga will need to put in a solid display to hit the back of the net against this Urawa Red Diamonds outfit who we think should do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.
We’re therefore seeing a hard-fought 0-1 victory for Urawa Red Diamonds at the end of the 90 minutes.
A close call.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 23:56 22/05/2023

🏟️ Team Focus:
Kyoto Sanga
Formed: 1922
Stadium: Sanga Stadium by Kyocera (21,623)
Captain: Sota Kawasaki
Chairman: Masaaki Ito
Manager: Kwi-jae Cho
Competitions: J1 League position 14, J. League Cup (Group E)
⭐ Key Man: Kosuke Kinoshita

Mostly taking to the field in the Striker position, Kosuke Kinoshita was born in Tokyo, Japan. Having made a first senior appearance for Halmstads BK in the 2017 season, the accomplished Forward has contributed 3 league goals in this J1 League 2023 campaign so far in 10 appearances.
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Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | +/- | Pts | Form |
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1 |
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15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 33 | DWWDW |
2 |
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15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 29 | DWLWW |
3 |
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14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 27 | DWWLW |
4 |
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14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 26 | WWLLW |
5 |
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15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | WWWWD |
6 |
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14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 23 | LWLWW |
7 |
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15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 22 | LWWWL |
8 |
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12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 21 | WDLWD |
9 |
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15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 21 | LLWDW |
10 |
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14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 20 | LWLDD |
11 |
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15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 19 | LLWDL |
12 |
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14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 18 | WWWLL |
13 |
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14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 16 | LLDWL |
14 |
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14 | 4 | 1 | 9 | -6 | 13 | DLLLL |
15 |
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14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -8 | 12 | DWDLD |
16 |
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14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -19 | 12 | LWLWW |
17 |
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14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 11 | LLLLL |
18 |
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14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | -17 | 7 | LLLLL |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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Urawa Red Diamonds |
Gamba Osaka |
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Consadole Sapporo |
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Cerezo Osaka |
Yokohama F. Marinos |
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Kashima Antlers |
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Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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Kawasaki Frontale |
Avispa Fukuoka |
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Gamba Osaka |
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Cerezo Osaka |
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Kawasaki Frontale |
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Sagan Tosu |
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Gamba Osaka |
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Vissel Kobe |
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FC Tokyo |
Avispa Fukuoka |
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Urawa Red Diamonds |
Kawasaki Frontale |
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Nagoya Grampus |
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Kashiwa Reysol |
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Vissel Kobe |
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Yokohama F. Marinos |
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Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.6 |
Time first goal scored | 39 |
Time first goal conceded | 40 |
Yellow cards | 1.3 |
Red cards | 0.1 |
Subs used | 4.9 |
Biggest victory | 2-0 |
Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
Goals scored | 0.7 |
Goals conceded | 0.7 |
Time first goal scored | 49 |
Time first goal conceded | 44 |
Yellow cards | 1.4 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.4 |
Biggest victory | 3-0 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Patric | 5 |
Kosuke Kinoshita | 3 |
Yuta Toyokawa | 3 |
Shinnosuke Fukuda | 1 |
Sota Kawasaki | 1 |
Shinzo Koroki | 3 |
Alexander Scholz | 3 |
Takahiro Akimoto | 2 |
Atsuki Ito | 2 |
Hiroki Sakai | 2 |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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Kyoto Sanga |
Albirex Niigata |
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FC Tokyo |
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Yokohama FC |
Kashima Antlers |
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Gamba Osaka |
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Nagoya Grampus |
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Kashiwa Reysol |
FC Tokyo |
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Consadole Sapporo |
Urawa Red Diamonds |
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Kashima Antlers |
Yokohama FC |
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Urawa Red Diamonds |
Shimizu S-Pulse |
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Kawasaki Frontale |
Urawa Red Diamonds |
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Shonan Bellmare |
Sagan Tosu |
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FC Tokyo |
Cerezo Osaka |
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Yokohama F. Marinos |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
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