📏 Form Guide

Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 0-2 J1 League triumph versus Machida Zelvia.

In that game, Urawa Red Diamonds managed 45% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. For Urawa Red Diamonds, the goals were scored by Marius Høibråten (15') and Yusuke Matsuo (38'). At the other end, Machida Zelvia had 13 shots on goal with 3 on target.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that there has been much resilience in the Urawa Red Diamonds defence. Urawa Red Diamonds have kept it tight, with the number of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their past six games standing at 4. That kind of trend might not be sustained into this next game, however.

Pre-game facts show that Urawa Red Diamonds:

• have not been beaten in the league by Kyoto Sanga in their previous 6 matches.
• are winless against Kyoto Sanga in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Kyoto Sanga

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Kyoto Sanga will come into the game following a 2-0 J1 League win over Shonan Bellmare in their most recent match.

In that game, Kyoto Sanga managed 48% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 on target. The scorer for Kyoto Sanga was Sota Kawasaki (40', 63'). On the other side, Shonan Bellmare had 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.

For 5 of the past six clashes involving Kyoto Sanga, a comparatively low number of goals have been hit between them and opposing sides. The overall average goals scored per game within that period is a mere 2.5, with the average goals for Kyoto equalling 1.83.

Leading up to this clash, Kyoto Sanga:

• haven't beaten Urawa Red Diamonds when they've played them away from home in the last 8 league games. Very poor away form.
• are undefeated in their last 4 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head meetings going back to 06/07/2022 tells us that Urawa Red Diamonds have won 2 of these & Kyoto Sanga 0, with the number of draws being 4.

11 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 for Reds and 3 created by Kyoto. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.83.

The last league encounter featuring the two was J1 League match day 2 on 22/02/2025 when it finished Kyoto Sanga 1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds.

That time, Kyoto Sanga managed 51% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player to score was Rafael Elias (60').

For their opponents, Urawa Red Diamonds had 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Thiago Santana (73') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Takuto Okabe.

ℹ️ Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Urawa Red Diamonds boss Maciej Skorża to be concerned about thanks to an almost full-strength group of players. Kai Shibato (Knee surgery) misses out.

We think that Reds could line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game and select Shusaku Nishikawa, Hirokazu Ishihara, Danilo Boza, Marius Hoeibraaten, Yoichi Naganuma, Kaito Yasui, Samuel Gustafson, Takuro Kaneko, Ryoma Watanabe, Matheus Savio and Yusuke Matsuo.

🗞️ Team News: Kyoto Sanga

Due to a mostly healthy group of players, there’s just a single fitness worry for the Kyoto Sanga gaffer Kwi-jae Cho to contend with. Sung-yun Gu (Meniscus injury) won’t be in action.

We’re of the thinking that Kyoto Sanga might utilise a 4-1-2-3 lineup using Gakuji Ota, Hidehiro Sugai, Patrick, Yoshinori Suzuki, Kyo Sato, Joao Pedro, Sota Kawasaki, Takuji Yonemoto, Masaya Okugawa, Rafael Elias and Taichi Hara.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that Kyoto Sanga will manage to find the back of the net against this Urawa Red Diamonds lineup, however that probably won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’re going for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning margin for Urawa Red Diamonds at full-time. Hopefully this is a good one.

Andre Moura, 10:27 16/04/2025