Urawa Reds have some lost ground to recover from their 14th place, and the job begins vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Read more!
- Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It's quite the trip for Sanfrecce Hiroshima when visiting Urawa as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Urawa Reds form and stats
The story so far in the J-League for Urawa Reds at their home stadium (Saitama Stadium 2002) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat. Urawa Reds are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row.
Urawa haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 237 minutes ago. Esaka scored that one. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa not having conceded a league goal in 201 minutes.
Urawa Reds drew their last game, 0-0 away at Kashiwa Reysol (placed 4th). Nishikawa, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.45 out of 10 in that game. Nishikawa topped it up with a clean sheet.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Urawa Reds have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found seven matches with the results: Won four, drawn two and lost one.
The Urawa fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 9 goals in 5 league matches.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima form and stats
1 win, 3 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Sanfrecce Hiroshima playing as the away team in the J-League this season. Two points from the last two away games for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.
Sanfrecce go into this game after a win, the home game against Kashima Antlers that ended 3-0. Kashiwa got a match rating of 8.74 in that game, top player of the team. Kashiwa scored two goals and hit one key pass.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Kashiwa Reysol.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Sanfrecce Hiroshima in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, three draws and seven defeats.
Sanfrecce are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). 7 goals have been conceded by Sanfrecce Hiroshima in these games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings with these teams: Urawa won four, Sanfrecce Hiroshima were winners in two and we saw four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  T. Morishima 4 goals | Y. Kashiwa 3 goals | M. Mitsuta 3 goals |
Urawa Reds missing players
Sanfrecce Hiroshima missing players
| Urawa Reds | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| 82% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 55% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 80% | 75% |
| 27% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 42% |
| 18% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 40% | 17% |
| 9% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 80% | 50% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 20% | 42% |
| 45% | 20% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 3.4 | 4.4 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.7 | 3.2 | 4.9 |
| 0.8 | 1.4 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.5 | 13.4 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 16 | 13.5 |
| 4.5 | 5.6 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8.3 | 6.6 | 5 |
| 22% | 32% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 21% | 25% |
| 8.5 | 8.6 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.7 | 9.6 | 8.3 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Urawa Reds haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kashima Antlers | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | Kawasaki Frontale | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| 3 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| 4 | Kashiwa Reysol | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 20 |
| 5 | Sagan Tosu | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 19 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 17 |
| 8 | Cerezo Osaka | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 17 |
| 9 | Consadole Sapporo | 12 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 17 |
| 10 | Kyoto Sanga | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| 11 | Avispa Fukuoka | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 |
| 12 | Gamba Osaka | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 14 |
| 13 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -3 | 12 |
| 14 | Urawa Reds | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
| 15 | Nagoya Grampus | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -4 | 11 |
| 16 | Jubilo Iwata | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -5 | 11 |
| 17 | Shonan Bellmare | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 7 |
| 18 | Vissel Kobe | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -13 | 4 |
