📏 Form Guide

Urawa Red Diamonds

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Urawa Red Diamonds will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-1 J1 League triumph versus Kyoto Sanga.

In that match, Urawa Red Diamonds had 44% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Urawa Red Diamonds, the scorers were Yusuke Matsuo (24') and Ryoma Watanabe (61'). For their opponents, Kyoto Sanga had 7 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Rafael Elias (55') was the scorer for Kyoto Sanga.

Fewer than three goals per match were seen in 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Urawa Red Diamonds have been involved. Regarding the goal split in this period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 4 and Urawa Red Diamonds managed the sum of 6. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this next game, though.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Urawa Red Diamonds:

• are unbeaten in the league by Yokohama F. Marinos in their last 3 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Shimizu S-Pulse in J1 League action, Yokohama F. Marinos will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Yokohama F. Marinos had 57% possession and 16 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. For Yokohama F. Marinos, goals were scored by Daiya Tono (29'), Asahi Uenaka (51') and Kodjo Aziangbe (70' Own goal). Shimizu S-Pulse had 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Hikaru Nakahara (54') and Takashi Inui (82') scored for Shimizu S-Pulse.

The stats tell the story, and Yokohama F. Marinos have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 9 goals overall. At the back, Yokohama F. Marinos have seen their frailties exposed.

Their past results show that Yokohama F. Marinos:

• have not won against Urawa Red Diamonds when having played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 25/02/2023, both clubs have shared the honours with Urawa Red Diamonds winning 2 of those games, Yokohama F. Marinos 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 8 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 of them for Reds and 4 being from Marinos. That’s an average goals per game of 1.33.

The previous league match between these clubs was J1 League match day 35 on 30/10/2024 which ended up with the score at Yokohama F. Marinos 0-0 Urawa Red Diamonds.

In that game, Yokohama F. Marinos managed 58% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

At the other end, Urawa Red Diamonds got 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

The referee was Akihiko Ikeuchi.

🗞️ Team News: Urawa Red Diamonds

There is just one fitness concern for the Urawa Red Diamonds manager Maciej Skorża to be concerned with due to a largely intact group. Kai Shibato (Knee surgery) is sidelined.

🗞️ Team News: Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F. Marinos boss Steve Holland has some current player fitness concerns. Reno Noguchi (Hamstring injury) and Takuto Kimura (Cruciate ligament injury) will not be playing here.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Yokohama F. Marinos could well find it tough to score against this Urawa Red Diamonds lineup who we reckon should get a goal themselves and run out victorious.

Our tip is therefore for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Urawa Red Diamonds at the end of the 90 minutes.

Little in this one.

Renata Leite, 06:05 20/04/2025