With their 11 point advantage in the league table, Urawa Reds fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Vegalta Sendai.
- Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vegalta Sendai have yet to win a game away.
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
Urawa Reds are steadily winning J-League games and points here at Saitama Stadium 2002. 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Urawa, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
The home team returns to Saitama Stadium 2002 after being equal after 90 minutes with Kashiwa Reysol (placed 13th) on their last time out; the Nabisco Cup game ended 3-3. A J-League defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Avispa Fukuoka.
Late drama in the game against Kashiwa Reysol as Urawa were trailing by a goal near the finishing line until T. Sekine popped out and made it level in the 90th minute. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? The hometeam coach R. Rodríguez Suárez made a successful contribution in the game against Kashiwa Reysol, bringing on T. Sekine who scored the equalizer in the 3-3 draw.
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 Reds have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won six times, drawn three and lost five.
Urawa Reds are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 7 games. Urawa have conceded 9 in these home matches.
Vegalta Sendai form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Vegalta Sendai so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-5 (win-draw-lose).
There might be some fixture complaints from Vegalta Sendai as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Nabisco Cup match against Shimizu S-Pulse (1-4). Before that, Vegalta Sendai secured a home win against Kashiwa Reysol with the score 1-0.
Vegalta are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, two draws and eleven defeats. From a total of 15 matches.
Vegalta has another fixture away, a J-League game, against Kawasaki Frontale in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Vegalta have conceded 16 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Urawa Reds eight wins, two draws and Vegalta Sendai zero victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Makino 2 goals |  Y. Abe 2 goals |  K. Sugimoto 2 goals |
Urawa Reds missing players
Vegalta Sendai missing players
| Urawa Reds | Vegalta Sendai | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 11 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 11 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 17 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 23 |
| 92% | 86% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 75% | 71% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 86% | 73% |
| 33% | 43% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 71% | 55% |
| 17% | 29% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 43% | 36% |
| 17% | 29% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 18% |
| 25% | 43% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 71% | 55% |
| 33% | 43% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 50% | 29% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 36% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.8 | 6.4 | 7.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 12.3 | 10.5 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4 | 3.2 |
| 32% | 43% | 56% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 21% | 23% |
- Urawa Reds have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Vegalta Sendai have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Vegalta Sendai have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Vegalta Sendai have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Vegalta Sendai have yet to win a game away.
- Vegalta Sendai haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Kawasaki Frontale | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 27 | 38 |
| 2 | Nagoya Grampus | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 29 |
| 3 | Sagan Tosu | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 26 |
| 4 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 24 |
| 5 | Vissel Kobe | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Cerezo Osaka | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Avispa Fukuoka | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Urawa Reds | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 17 |
| 10 | Kashima Antlers | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 15 |
| 11 | Tokyo | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 15 |
| 12 | Tokushima Vortis | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 14 |
| 13 | Kashiwa Reysol | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -2 | 13 |
| 14 | Consadole Sapporo | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 15 | Shonan Bellmare | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 12 |
| 16 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | -5 | 11 |
| 17 | Oita Trinita | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -9 | 8 |
| 18 | Gamba Osaka | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 7 |
| 19 | Vegalta Sendai | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -15 | 6 |
| 20 | Yokohama | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 20 | -28 | 2 |