Urawa Reds are finding life sweet in the top table spots while Gamba Osaka are more concerned with escaping relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?
- Gamba Osaka is in the worst form (1-0-5)
Both teams have had time to rest since their previous exertion in an official match. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated fixture!
Urawa Reds form and stats
33 points is a decent return from 15 J-League games here at Saitama Stadium 2002 for Urawa Reds. The data says 10 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. Ever since the Shonan Bellmare game Urawa has been unbeatable here at Saitama Stadium 2002 producing four straight wins.
Urawa faced defeat in their previous match, away at Cerezo Osaka (0-1).
In the match before that, Urawa Reds hosted Cerezo Osaka and drew the game 1-1.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Urawa have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 15 games) they have won eight times, drawn three and lost four.
Urawa has scored 20 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. Urawa have only conceded 13 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Gamba Osaka form and stats
As the visiting team in J-League matches, Gamba Osaka have produced an overall stat of 5-3-7 so far. Gamba seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Gamba's previous game was their home loss versus Consadole Sapporo (1-5). Gamba lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one. Patric, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.53. Patric scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Kashiwa Reysol.Gamba are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, three draws and four defeats. From a total of ten matches.
The visitors have scored 10 goals from 15 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (14 so far).
Head 2 Head
Urawa Reds and Gamba Osaka have faced off before this season: Gamba Osaka - Urawa Reds 0-3. Urawa-Gamba Osaka H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Urawa Reds four wins, Gamba Osaka four wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Junker 8 goals |   A. Aguiar Oliveira 8 goals | L. Peruchena Pereira 5 goals |
Urawa Reds missing players
Gamba Osaka missing players
| Urawa Reds | Gamba Osaka | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 5 | Played | P | 3 | 15 | 31 |
| 16 | 10 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 36 | 20 | 8 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 25 |
| 32 | 13 | 5 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | 39 |
| 87% | 87% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 87% | 84% |
| 71% | 73% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 40% | 55% |
| 35% | 33% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 20% | 39% |
| 13% | 13% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 13% | 16% |
| 10% | 13% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 26% | 27% | 20% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 27% | 39% |
| 52% | 60% | 60% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 47% | 35% |
| 35% | 27% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 40% | 42% |
| 5 | 4.7 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 4 | 4.3 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 5.8 | 4.9 |
| 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.9 | 8.1 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.3 | 8.2 | 9 |
| 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| 33% | 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 22% | 25% |
- Gamba Osaka is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kawasaki Frontale | 32 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 69 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 9 | 48 | 81 |
| 2 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 31 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 67 | 28 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 35 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 19 | 39 | 69 |
| 3 | Vissel Kobe | 31 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 50 | 30 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 57 |
| 4 | Nagoya Grampus | 32 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 35 | 24 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 57 |
| 5 | Urawa Reds | 31 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 36 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 54 |
| 6 | Kashima Antlers | 32 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 53 | 34 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 20 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 14 | 19 | 53 |
| 7 | Sagan Tosu | 31 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 38 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 51 |
| 8 | Avispa Fukuoka | 31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 33 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 46 |
| 9 | Tokyo | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 42 | 40 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 46 |
| 10 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 32 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 38 | 31 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 45 |
| 11 | Consadole Sapporo | 31 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 40 | 43 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 18 | -3 | 42 |
| 12 | Cerezo Osaka | 32 | 10 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 42 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 20 | -2 | 39 |
| 13 | Kashiwa Reysol | 31 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 31 | 43 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 17 | -12 | 34 |
| 14 | Gamba Osaka | 31 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 39 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 25 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 14 | -14 | 33 |
| 15 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 31 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 31 | 45 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 21 | -14 | 32 |
| 16 | Tokushima Vortis | 31 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 43 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 25 | -18 | 29 |
| 17 | Shonan Bellmare | 31 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 30 | 37 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 24 | -7 | 27 |
| 18 | Oita Trinita | 31 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 48 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 30 | -27 | 24 |
| 19 | Vegalta Sendai | 31 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 24 | 50 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 31 | -26 | 23 |
| 20 | Yokohama | 31 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 66 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 41 | -41 | 22 |