📏 Form Guide

Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds will be looking to improve on their last outing here after a 2-1 J1 League losing effort in their last game against FC Tokyo.

In that game, Urawa Red Diamonds managed 52% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Urawa Red Diamonds was Thiago Santana (24'). FC Tokyo had 17 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Ryotaro Araki (50') and Kuryu Matsuki (58') scored for FC Tokyo.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Urawa Red Diamonds have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Urawa Red Diamonds have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 10 goals during that time.

Heading into this contest, Urawa Red Diamonds are undefeated in their last 2 home league matches.

Sagan Tosu

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Last time out, Sagan Tosu drew 0-0 in the J1 League match with Vissel Kobe.

In that match, Sagan Tosu managed 49% possession and 11 shots on goal with 6 on target. Vissel Kobe got 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target.

Kenta Kawai's Sagan Tosu have seen their efforts on goal rewarded 6 times throughout their previous 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those matches adds up to 11.

Coming into this clash, Sagan Tosu haven’t won away from home in the past 10 matches in the league. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head meetings dating back to 06/03/2021, there has been little to separate the clubs with Urawa Red Diamonds winning 3 of those games, Sagan Tosu 3 and 0 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

14 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 from Reds and 8 belonging to Sagan Tosu. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The last league encounter between the two was J1 League match day 19 on 01/07/2023 when the final score was Sagan Tosu 1-2 Urawa Red Diamonds.

That time, Sagan Tosu managed 69% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer was Yoichi Naganuma (8').

Urawa Red Diamonds had 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. José Kanté (11') and Ken Iwao (38') scored.

The referee was Ryo Tanimoto.

🗞️ Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

The Urawa Red Diamonds boss Per-Mathias Høgmo will be grateful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this clash thanks to a completely injury-free group available for selection.

In our view, Reds will possibly make use of the 4-1-2-3 system for this one with Shusaku Nishikawa, Hirokazu Ishihara, Yota Sato, Marius Hoeibraaten, Ryoma Watanabe, Samuel Gustafson, Atsuki Ito, Ken Iwao, Naoki Maeda, Thiago Santana and Yusuke Matsuo.

📰 Team News: Sagan Tosu

Sagan Tosu boss Kenta Kawai has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Yoshiki Narahara (Cruciate ligament injury) and Fuchi Honda (Tear of the lateral meniscus) won’t be making appearances.

We reckon that Sagan Tosu seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Il-Kyu Park, Wataru Harada, Kosuke Yamazaki, Seiji Kimura, Tae-Hyeon Kim, Akito Fukuta, So Kawahara, Taichi Kikuchi, Yuki Horigome, Yoichi Naganuma and Vinicius Araujo.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that Urawa Red Diamonds will most probably score at least once against Sagan Tosu, who might well find it a difficult task to score themselves.

Our selection here is for a comfortable 2-0 winning margin for Urawa Red Diamonds at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 05:06 07/04/2024