Edgy top table thriller in J-League as Sanfrecce Hiroshima have travelled the 497 miles necessary to reach Urawa Reds at their Saitama Stadium 2002.
- Urawa Reds have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in J-League
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in J-League
These teams have little in common geographically as Sanfrecce Hiroshima have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
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
The story so far in the J-League for Urawa Reds at their home stadium (Saitama Stadium 2002) is 4 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
The Urawa Reds goalkeeper Shusaku Nishikawa is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 247 minutes without conceding a goal in the J-League.
Happy days for Urawa in their previous game, a fixture away at Kyoto Sanga (placed 14th) that ended with a 2-0 victory. Nishikawa, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 8.12 out of 10 in that game. Nishikawa topped it up with a clean sheet.
Before that result, a home win against Kawasaki Frontale in the Nabisco Cup.
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. Kashima Antlers are visiting.
Goals decide football matches and Urawa Reds are scoring many of them at home; 11 on target from 5 league matches. Urawa's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima form and stats
4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Sanfrecce Hiroshima playing as the away team in the J-League this season. Sanfrecce Hiroshima has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Sanfrecce go into this game after a win, the home game against Shonan Bellmare that ended 1-0. Vieira came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Shonan Bellmare last time out, making the manager Skibbe feel like a tactical genius. Osako (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 7.61. Osako topped it up with a clean sheet.
A defeat, in the Nabisco Cup away at Yokohama, before that.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Kyoto Sanga in just four days.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 7 games (in the league).
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 two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. da Silva Vieira 6 goals |   A. Scholz 3 goals |  S. Koroki 3 goals |
Urawa Reds missing players
Sanfrecce Hiroshima missing players
| Urawa Reds | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 18 | 11 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 10 | 18 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 6 | 7 | 12 |
| 85% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 77% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 64% |
| 38% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 57% | 50% |
| 15% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 8% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 57% | 50% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 43% |
| 38% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 14% | 14% |
| 4.4 | 5.4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 6.4 | 7.1 |
| 5.5 | 2.6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 5 | 3.2 |
| 1.2 | 0.4 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11.9 | 15 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.8 | 19.1 | 18.1 |
| 3.7 | 4.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.6 | 6.4 |
| 38% | 46% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 22% | 20% |
| 11.3 | 9.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.5 | 9.1 | 7.5 |
| 3.4 | 2.8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
- All of Urawa Reds's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in J-League
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Urawa Reds have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Urawa Reds have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in J-League
- Urawa Reds have the most points from losing position (10) in J-League
- Urawa Reds have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Urawa Reds have won significantly more corners at 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 | Vissel Kobe | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 21 | 33 |
| 2 | Nagoya Grampus | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 3 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 27 |
| 4 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | Urawa Reds | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 24 |
| 6 | Kashima Antlers | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 24 |
| 7 | Cerezo Osaka | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 23 |
| 8 | Consadole Sapporo | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 22 |
| 9 | Avispa Fukuoka | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 20 |
| 10 | Tokyo | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -3 | 19 |
| 11 | Sagan Tosu | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | -3 | 19 |
| 12 | Kawasaki Frontale | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | -1 | 18 |
| 13 | Albirex Niigata | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 16 |
| 14 | Kyoto Sanga | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | -8 | 13 |
| 15 | Kashiwa Reysol | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 12 |
| 16 | Yokohama | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | -19 | 12 |
| 17 | Shonan Bellmare | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | -4 | 11 |
| 18 | Gamba Osaka | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 20 | -17 | 7 |
