J-League duel: Close contest expected between Urawa Reds and Kawasaki Frontale

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Competition: Japan J-League
Competition: Sat 30.July
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Saitama Stadium 2002 (63700 seats)

Kawasaki Frontale visit Urawa Reds and Saitama Stadium 2002 full of confidence, but the hosts is not a walk in the park. More info on the match here!

Insights:
  • Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Kawasaki Frontale have the most clean sheets (5) away in J-League

This promises to be an action-packed match with lots of spark and bustle as both sides are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Get this show on the road!

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Urawa Reds form and stats

When playing at home in the J-League, Urawa Reds have managed 4 wins, 6 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 11 games.

A good away victory last time out for Urawa Reds, who won 2-1 against Shimizu S-Pulse (placed 17th). Nishikawa loved the game against Shimizu S-Pulse. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 2-1 victory.

Before that, Urawa Reds had a home game versus Tokyo which ended with a victory 3-0.

Urawa Reds are traveling soon after this match as the Nabisco Cup match at Nagoya Grampus awaits in four days.

The Urawa fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 21 goals in 11 league matches.

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Kawasaki Frontale form and stats

4-3-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kawasaki Frontale, who have the most clean sheets (5) away in J-League, in their J-League matches away.

Kawasaki Frontale are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the match against Gamba Osaka (placed 16th). As you can tell from the results above, Kawasaki Frontale was very dominant against Gamba Osaka, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Ienaga, Marcinho, Wakizaka and Damião providing the goals. Wakizaka got a match rating of 8.8 in that game, top player of the team. Wakizaka scored one goal, hit four key passes and had 62 successful passes (of 71 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 4-0 vs Gamba Osaka.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Kawasaki manager Oniki as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Cerezo Osaka.

Kawasaki Frontale find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 10 away fixtures in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have battled before this season: Kawasaki Frontale - Urawa Reds 2-1. Head to head numbers (for the previous ten meetings): Urawa won one game, four matches ended with a draw and Kawasaki Frontale have five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five

Top Goalscorers

Urawa RedsD. Moberg-Karlsson
D. Moberg-Karlsson
6 goals
Kawasaki FrontaleM. da Silva Barbosa
M. da Silva Barbosa
5 goals
Kawasaki FrontaleA. Ienaga
A. Ienaga
5 goals

Urawa Reds missing players

Kawasaki Frontale missing players

Urawa Reds Kawasaki Frontale
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 2 10 20
6 4 0 Won W 0 4 11
11 6 3 Drew D 1 3 4
5 1 0 Lost L 1 3 5
27 21 4 Scored S 0 13 31
20 11 4 Conceded C 1 10 22
82% 91% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 90% 95%
64% 82% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 70% 70%
36% 55% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 30% 40%
18% 36% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 30%
9% 18% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 15%
45% 55% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 40%
36% 36% 33% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 50%
36% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 20% 15%
 
5.6 5.5 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.2 4.8
4.2 5.3 6.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.9 4.7
0.7 1 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 0.8 1.2
3 3 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
12.4 13.8 11 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11.1 11.8
4.7 5.5 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.6 4.8
26% 34% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 32%
 
9 9.2 12 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7.7 8
3.3 3.3 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0.5 2.7 3
Key stats in J-League this season:
  • Kawasaki Frontale have the most clean sheets (5) away 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 22 13 6 3 48 25 10 8 2 0 23 6 12 5 4 3 25 19 23 45
2 Kashima Antlers 22 11 7 4 35 27 12 6 4 2 21 17 10 5 3 2 14 10 8 40
3 Kawasaki Frontale 20 11 4 5 31 22 10 7 1 2 18 12 10 4 3 3 13 10 9 37
4 Kashiwa Reysol 22 11 3 8 28 22 12 6 1 5 15 13 10 5 2 3 13 9 6 36
5 Cerezo Osaka 22 9 8 5 34 26 11 4 4 3 15 14 11 5 4 2 19 12 8 35
6 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 22 9 8 5 29 22 12 7 3 2 18 8 10 2 5 3 11 14 7 35
7 Tokyo 22 9 5 8 25 26 11 6 4 1 17 6 11 3 1 7 8 20 -1 32
8 Urawa Reds 22 6 11 5 27 20 11 4 6 1 21 11 11 2 5 4 6 9 7 29
9 Sagan Tosu 21 6 10 5 29 24 11 4 5 2 17 8 10 2 5 3 12 16 5 28
10 Avispa Fukuoka 22 6 9 7 17 18 11 3 6 2 9 6 11 3 3 5 8 12 -1 27
11 Kyoto Sanga 22 6 7 9 21 25 11 4 3 4 10 11 11 2 4 5 11 14 -4 25
12 Shonan Bellmare 22 6 7 9 18 24 12 3 4 5 8 15 10 3 3 4 10 9 -6 25
13 Nagoya Grampus 21 6 7 8 16 22 10 4 4 2 10 9 11 2 3 6 6 13 -6 25
14 Consadole Sapporo 22 5 9 8 19 37 9 3 5 1 7 9 13 2 4 7 12 28 -18 24
15 Vissel Kobe 22 5 6 11 21 28 10 3 2 5 11 10 12 2 4 6 10 18 -7 21
16 Gamba Osaka 22 5 6 11 22 31 11 3 3 5 15 15 11 2 3 6 7 16 -9 21
17 Shimizu S-Pulse 22 4 8 10 26 35 11 1 4 6 13 22 11 3 4 4 13 13 -9 20
18 Júbilo Iwata 22 4 7 11 22 34 11 3 3 5 13 15 11 1 4 6 9 19 -12 19