Urawa Red Diamonds vs Kyoto Sanga, 2025 Japanese J1 League

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Urawa Red Diamonds

24': Yusuke Matsuo
61': Ryoma Watanabe

FT
2 - 1

Kyoto Sanga

55': Papagaio

About

Urawa Red Diamonds are hosting Kyoto Sanga at Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan, starting on . The match is a part of the Japanese J.League.

Match Commentary

24': Yusuke Matsuo (Urawa Red Diamonds) Goal at 24'
45': Shimpei Fukuoka (Kyoto Sanga) Substitution at 45'
45': Shinnosuke Fukuda (Kyoto Sanga) Substitution at 45'
54': Taiki Hirato (Kyoto Sanga) Substitution at 54'
55': Papagaio (Kyoto Sanga) Goal at 55'
61': Ryoma Watanabe (Urawa Red Diamonds) Goal at 61'
62': Taishi Matsumoto (Urawa Red Diamonds) Substitution at 62'
62': Genki Haraguchi (Urawa Red Diamonds) Substitution at 62'
63': Marco Túlio (Kyoto Sanga) Substitution at 63'
75': Murilo (Kyoto Sanga) Substitution at 75'
75': Motoki Nagakura (Urawa Red Diamonds) Substitution at 75'
75': Takahiro Sekine (Urawa Red Diamonds) Substitution at 75'
87': Hidehiro Sugai (Kyoto Sanga) Yellow Card at 87'

Statistics

KYO		URA
12	Fouls	8
1	Yellow Cards	0
0	Red Cards	0
0	Offsides	0
4	Corner Kicks	5
3	Saves	1
55.7	Possession	44.3
8	SHOTS	14
2	ON GOAL	6
0.3	On Target %	0.4
0	Penalty Goals	0
0	Penalty Kicks Taken	0
0	Accurate Passes	0
0	Passes	0
0.0	Pass Completion %	0.0
0	Accurate Crosses	0
0	Crosses	0
0.0	Cross %	0.0
0	Long Balls	0
0	Accurate Long Balls	0
0.0	Long Balls %	0.0
0	Blocked Shots	4
0	Effective Tackles	0
0	Tackles	0
0.0	Tackle %	0.0
0	Interceptions	0
0	Effective Clearances	0
0	Clearances	0

Game Information

Competition: Japanese J.League

Venue: Saitama Stadium 2002
Location: Saitama, Japan
Attendance: 21,383

Japanese J1 League Standings

#	TEAM	GP	GD	PTS
1	FC Tokyo	14	+25	33
2	Kashiwa Reysol	14	+11	31
3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	14	+22	30
4	Machida Zelvia	14	+20	29

Full Standings

Line-Ups

Urawa Red Diamonds (4-2-3-1)

No.	Name
1	Shusaku Nishikawa (GK)
5	Marius Hoibraten
3	Danilo Boza
88	Yoichi Naganuma
4	Hirokazu Ishikara
13	Ryoma Watanabe
11	Samuel Gustafsson
25	Kaito Yasui
24	Yusuke Matsuo
8	Matheus Sávio
77	Takuro Kaneko

Urawa Red Diamonds Substitutes:

Taishi Matsumoto, Takuya Ogiwara, Motoki Nagakura, Ayumi Niekawa, Takahiro Sekine, Genki Haraguchi, Tomoaki Okubo, Rikito Inoue, Rio Nitta.

Kyoto Sanga (4-3-3)

No.	Name
26	Gakuji Ota (GK)
50	Yoshinori Suzuki
4	Patrick
44	Kyo Sato
22	Hidehiro Sugai
7	Sota Kawasaki
6	João Pedro Mendes
8	Takuji Yonemoto
9	Papagaio
14	Taichi Hara
29	Masaya Okugawa

Kyoto Sanga Substitutes:

Shimpei Fukuoka, Murilo, Kodai Nagata, Taiki Hirato, Temma Matsuda, Hisashi Appiah Tawiah, Marco Túlio, Kentaro Kakoi, Shinnosuke Fukuda.

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