Get ready for Urawa Reds - Sagan Tosu! Even considering the recent results, this game should be awesome!
- Urawa Reds have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in J-League
- Sagan Tosu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Sagan Tosu, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Urawa Reds form and stats
As mentioned below, Urawa Reds are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 J-League games. It’s been three wins in a row for Urawa Reds here at Saitama Stadium 2002, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Urawa's previous match was a AFC Champions League game also played at home, finishing 1-0 vs Al Hilal. The home team hope to to continue in that form. The goalie Nishikawa was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.9 out of ten. Nishikawa topped it up with a clean sheet.
In the game before, 1-1 away to Al Hilal (AFC Champions League).
The match schedule is unforgiving for Urawa Reds as they have a new game in only four days, a J-League match thankfully also at home. Gamba Osaka are visiting.
Urawa are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Saitama Stadium 2002 in their league games, having scored an impressive 8 goals in 3 matches.
Sagan Tosu form and stats
Playing away, Sagan Tosu have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the J-League this season.
Sagan Tosu lost away at Kawasaki Frontale (0-1) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Midfield player Kawahara was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.4/10. Kawahara hit two key passes and had 74 successful passes (of 84 total).
A 1-3 loss hosting Yokohama F. Marinos before that.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sagan Tosu manager Kawai as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Avispa Fukuoka.
Sagan have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Urawa Reds five wins, two draws and Sagan Tosu three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  F. Honda 3 goals |  T. Akimoto 2 goals |  A. Scholz 2 goals |
Urawa Reds missing players
Sagan Tosu missing players
| Urawa Reds | Sagan Tosu | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 13 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 55% |
| 44% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 40% | 36% |
| 11% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 27% |
| 11% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 18% |
| 44% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 55% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 27% |
| 3.1 | 2.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.2 | 5 |
| 6.2 | 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 1.2 | 0.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 10.1 | 12 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 7.6 | 9.3 |
| 3.3 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2 | 2.7 |
| 43% | 62% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 50% | 33% |
| 10.1 | 8 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 16.4 | 16 |
| 2.7 | 1.3 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 6.2 | 6.3 |
- All of Urawa Reds's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Sagan Tosu have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sagan Tosu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sagan Tosu haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Urawa Reds have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in J-League
- Urawa Reds have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in J-League
- Urawa Reds have won all their matches at home so far.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Vissel Kobe | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 26 |
| 2 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 24 |
| 3 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 23 |
| 4 | Nagoya Grampus | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Kashima Antlers | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 19 |
| 6 | Kawasaki Frontale | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 18 |
| 7 | Avispa Fukuoka | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 18 |
| 8 | Urawa Reds | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 9 | Cerezo Osaka | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 17 |
| 10 | Consadole Sapporo | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 16 |
| 11 | Tokyo | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | Kyoto Sanga | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -4 | 13 |
| 13 | Albirex Niigata | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 13 |
| 14 | Shonan Bellmare | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 15 | Sagan Tosu | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -7 | 11 |
| 16 | Kashiwa Reysol | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -7 | 11 |
| 17 | Gamba Osaka | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 17 | -13 | 7 |
| 18 | Yokohama | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14 | -21 | 6 |
