J-League preview: Can Urawa Reds edge out victory against Consadole Sapporo?

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Competition: Japan J-League
Competition: Wed 12.October
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Saitama Stadium 2002 (63700 seats)

No shortage of good and bad for these two squads so far this season, holding positions near the center of the J-League table. Here's the Urawa Reds - Consadole Sapporo latest:

Insights:
  • Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most conceded goals in the second half (32) in J-League

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Urawa Reds and Consadole Sapporo.

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Urawa Reds form and stats

When playing at home in the J-League, Urawa Reds have managed 7 wins, 6 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 15 games.

The Urawa followers enjoyed the previous fixture, watching their team host Sagan Tosu and win 2-1. Sweet to taste a league victory after three games without. Ohata, defender, was given a rating of 7.71/10 in that game, top of the team. Ohata won 5 of 7 duels.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Sanfrecce Hiroshima (1-4).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Urawa Reds handle that role? We have found 18 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 12 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Goal fest? Nobody knows the future, but we do know that 10 of the 12 latest league games with this club has contained at least three goals.

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Urawa Reds at home in the league. 30 on target and 15 scored by the opposition; from 15 matches.

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Consadole Sapporo form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Consadole Sapporo so far with only 14 points returning home. The records show 3-5-7 (win-draw-lose).

Consadole Sapporo failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Avispa Fukuoka (placed 15th) that ended with defeat 1-2. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league matches winning points. The attacker Aoki got a match rating of 7.64 in that game. Aoki scored one goal and had 46 successful passes (of 57 total).

Before that, Consadole Sapporo secured a home win against Kawasaki Frontale with the score 4-3.

Consadole are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

Consadole Sapporo have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 15 league away games 17 goals have been scored. Consadole struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 29 goals conceded from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Consadole Sapporo have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when facing Urawa Reds.

Consadole Sapporo - Urawa Reds 1-1 was the scoreline in these contenders' previous head-to-head match, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

Urawa RedsD. Moberg-Karlsson
D. Moberg-Karlsson
8 goals
Urawa RedsK. Junker
K. Junker
6 goals
Consadole SapporoR. Aoki
R. Aoki
6 goals

Urawa Reds missing players

Consadole Sapporo missing players

Urawa Reds Consadole Sapporo
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
31 15 4 Played P 4 15 31
10 7 3 Won W 1 3 9
13 6 1 Drew D 0 5 11
8 2 0 Lost L 3 7 11
45 30 10 Scored S 3 17 38
33 15 3 Conceded C 12 29 50
84% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 84%
68% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 71%
48% 60% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 60% 52%
29% 40% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 40% 32%
16% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 33% 23%
48% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 25% 53% 55%
32% 27% 50% Clean Sheets C S 25% 27% 32%
35% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 29%
 
5.3 5.6 7.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.7 4
4 4.9 6.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.9 4.2
0.8 0.9 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.3 1.4
3 3 1 Red cards R C 1 2 4
 
12.7 13.7 15.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.2 10.8 12.3
4.9 5.7 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.3 4.1
30% 35% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 35% 30%
 
10.2 9.9 11.2 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 11.6 11.4
3.3 3.3 3.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.2 5.3 4.8
Key stats in J-League this season:
  • Consadole Sapporo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most conceded goals (29) away in J-League
  • Consadole Sapporo have the most conceded goals in the second half (32) in J-League
  • Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Yokohama F. Marinos 31 18 8 5 63 32 15 11 3 1 29 8 16 7 5 4 34 24 31 62
2 Kawasaki Frontale 31 17 6 8 57 38 15 12 1 2 33 16 16 5 5 6 24 22 19 57
3 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 32 15 9 8 49 37 16 10 3 3 30 13 16 5 6 5 19 24 12 54
4 Cerezo Osaka 31 13 11 7 46 35 16 7 5 4 23 19 15 6 6 3 23 16 11 50
5 Kashima Antlers 32 12 12 8 46 42 16 7 5 4 25 22 16 5 7 4 21 20 4 48
6 Kashiwa Reysol 32 13 8 11 41 40 16 6 3 7 21 23 16 7 5 4 20 17 1 47
7 Tokyo 31 13 7 11 39 38 15 7 5 3 21 12 16 6 2 8 18 26 1 46
8 Urawa Reds 31 10 13 8 45 33 15 7 6 2 30 15 16 3 7 6 15 18 12 43
9 Sagan Tosu 32 9 14 9 43 39 16 5 8 3 21 11 16 4 6 6 22 28 4 41
10 Nagoya Grampus 32 9 13 10 27 34 16 6 6 4 15 16 16 3 7 6 12 18 -7 40
11 Consadole Sapporo 31 9 11 11 38 50 16 6 6 4 21 21 15 3 5 7 17 29 -12 38
12 Vissel Kobe 31 10 7 14 32 36 15 6 3 6 19 13 16 4 4 8 13 23 -4 37
13 Shonan Bellmare 31 8 11 12 26 37 16 4 6 6 12 22 15 4 5 6 14 15 -11 35
14 Kyoto Sanga 31 8 10 13 29 35 16 5 5 6 16 17 15 3 5 7 13 18 -6 34
15 Avispa Fukuoka 32 8 10 14 26 36 16 4 6 6 15 17 16 4 4 8 11 19 -10 34
16 Gamba Osaka 32 8 9 15 31 44 16 3 6 7 16 21 16 5 3 8 15 23 -13 33
17 Shimizu S-Pulse 31 7 11 13 40 48 15 2 7 6 19 27 16 5 4 7 21 21 -8 32
18 Júbilo Iwata 30 5 10 15 30 54 16 4 6 6 21 28 14 1 4 9 9 26 -24 25