Urawa Red Diamonds vs Kawasaki Frontale, J. League 2026 REGULAR SEASON

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J. League · 2026

Urawa Red Diamonds

2 – 0

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Kawasaki Frontale

Wed 29 Apr 2026 · 06:00 UTC Saitama Stadium 2002 30,780 HT 45' · FT 45'

Matheus Savio 54' 1–0

Hiiro Komori 71' 2–0

Matheus Savio 79' Y

Overview

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Urawa Red Diamonds vs Kawasaki Frontale — J. League at Saitama Stadium 2002.

Urawa Red Diamonds 18 games · 25 pts (2026/27)
Kawasaki Frontale 18 games · 28 pts (2026/27)

Match Details

Referee
Assistant 1 Masaru Hasegawa (Japan)
Assistant 2 Yuta Tashiro (Japan)

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Vissel Kobe	18	35
2	Cerezo Osaka FC	18	31
3	Nagoya Grampus	18	31
4	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	18	30
5	Gamba Osaka	18	28
6	Fagiano Okayama FC	18	26
7	Shimizu S-Pulse	18	24
8	Kyoto Sanga FC	18	23
9	V-Varen Nagasaki	18	21
10	Avispa Fukuoka	18	21
11	Kashima Antlers	18	45
12	FC Tokyo	18	37
13	FC Machida Zelvia	18	37
14	Kawasaki Frontale	18	28
15	Tokyo Verdy	18	28
16	Urawa Red Diamonds	18	25
17	Kashiwa Reysol	18	20
18	Yokohama F.Marinos	18	20
19	FC Mito Holly Hock	18	18
20	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	18	12

Head-to-Head

Urawa Red Diamonds 26 games · Avg 3.0 goals Kawasaki Frontale

Last 5 meetings

2026-04-29 Urawa Red Diamonds 2–0 Kawasaki Frontale 2026-04-05 Kawasaki Frontale 3–2 Urawa Red Diamonds 2025-12-06 Urawa Red Diamonds 4–0 Kawasaki Frontale 2025-05-21 Kawasaki Frontale 2–2 Urawa Red Diamonds 2024-11-22 Urawa Red Diamonds 1–1 Kawasaki Frontale

Recent Form

Urawa Red Diamonds

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
29 Apr	Kawasaki Frontale	H	2–0	W
25 Apr	Yokohama F.Marinos	H	2–3	L
18 Apr	Kashima Antlers	A	0–1	L
12 Apr	Tokyo Verdy	H	2–3	L
05 Apr	Kawasaki Frontale	A	2–3	L
22 Mar	FC Machida Zelvia	H	1–2	L

Kawasaki Frontale

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
29 Apr	Urawa Red Diamonds	A	0–2	L
25 Apr	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	H	2–1	W
18 Apr	Yokohama F.Marinos	A	2–1	W
12 Apr	Kashima Antlers	H	0–2	L
05 Apr	Urawa Red Diamonds	H	3–2	W
28 Mar	FC Machida Zelvia	A	0–1	L

Season Stats

Urawa Red Diamonds		Kawasaki Frontale
#16	Position	#14
25	Points	28
18	Played	18
7 / 0 / 11	W / D / L	10 / 0 / 8
37	Scored	38
37	Conceded	40
+0	GD	-2
1.39	PPG	1.56
39%	Win %	56%

Key Stats

62% Both Teams to Score
H2H (26 games)

54% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

14% Clean Sheets
Urawa Red Diamonds this season

14% Clean Sheets
Kawasaki Frontale this season

Urawa Red Diamonds are 16th (25 pts). Kawasaki Frontale are 14th (28 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

Urawa Red Diamonds

0-15

1/1

16-30

4/3

31-45

4/3

46-60

–/2

61-75

2/4

76+

2/1

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Kawasaki Frontale

0-15

2/–

16-30

–/2

31-45

5/2

46-60

4/2

61-75

1/3

76+

3/2

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

Urawa Red Diamonds

Matheus Savio	4 G
Minamino Harumi	4 G
Takuro Kaneko	1 G	5 A
Hiiro Komori	1 G

Kawasaki Frontale

Marcinho	6 G	1 A
Yasuto Wakizaka	2 G	3 A
Tatsuya Ito	2 G	1 A
Lazar Romanic	2 G

Events

Match Events

0' Temperatures are rising at Saitama Stadium 2002 as Urawa Red Diamonds face off against Kawasaki Frontale in what promises to be a fascinating contest.
5' The home supporters are growing impatient. Urawa Red Diamonds must find a spark to ignite this game.
10' It looks surprising Kawasaki Frontale does not make any changes. Marcinho has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
15' Kawasaki Frontale is showing some good football. However, Kawasaki Frontale are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
20' will be watching from the dugout nervously. His Urawa Red Diamonds side need to improve if they are to claim all three points.
25' Yoichi Naganuma is putting in a real shift tonight. He has covered more ground than anyone else for Urawa Red Diamonds so far.
30' The clock is ticking and both teams know a goal could change everything at this point.
35' Erison needs to be pretty careful with his discipline considering 0 Yellow cards this season.
40' The referee has had an easy afternoon — neither side has been overly physical in the tackle.
45' The midfield battle is intense right now. Both Urawa Red Diamonds and Kawasaki Frontale are fighting for every inch of the pitch.
50' The teams are not in a rush to score plenty of goals. It might look strange considering Kawasaki Frontale that had 446 games and scored 571 goals.
54' Clinical. Composed. Brilliant. Matheus Savio makes it 1-0.
59' Serbia international Lazar Romanic has been a key figure this campaign — 1 goals and 0 assists in the Array this season.
60' Shoya Nakajima makes way for Junpei Hayakawa at the 60 minute mark. A tactical switch from Urawa Red Diamonds.
61' Kawasaki Frontale manager makes another effort to make the tables turned. Asahi Sasaki is hanging Filip Uremovic on the field on 61 minute.
62' Erison is replacing Lazar Romanic for the Kawasaki Frontale side.
67' Matchday of the Array and both teams know exactly what is at stake tonight.
71' A tactical swap from Urawa Red Diamonds — Hiiro Komori on, Takuro Kaneko off on 71 minutes.
71' Magnificent from Hiiro Komori! That is 7 goals in 270 appearances — and it could not have come at a better time.
74' The crowd applauds Tatsuya Ito as he leaves the pitch. So Kawahara steps in for Kawasaki Frontale.
79' Poor challenge from Matheus Savio. The referee spots it immediately and shows the card.
82' The Urawa Red Diamonds manager makes a substitution. Matheus Savio departs to be replaced by Yusuke Matsuo.
83' Hayate Ueki is replacing Ryoma Watanabe for the Urawa Red Diamonds side.
88' Urawa Red Diamonds are keeping things exceptionally tight at the back. It will take something special to break them down.
The final score is 2-0.

Lineups

Urawa Red Diamonds Lineups

4-2-3-1

Starting XI

Bench

7
Hiroki Abe
3
Danilo Boza
24
Yusuke Matsuo ↑ 82'
16
Ayumi Niekawa
39
Junpei Hayakawa ↑ 60'
41
Rio Nitta
17
Hiiro Komori ↑ 71'
36
Renji Hidano ↑ 71'
37
Hayate Ueki ↑ 83'

Coach Maciej Skorza

Kawasaki Frontale Lineups

4-2-3-1

Starting XI

Bench

24
Ten Miyagi ↑ 83'
9
Erison ↑ 62'
5
Asahi Sasaki ↑ 61'
19
So Kawahara ↑ 74'
38
Soma Kanda
1
Louis Thebault-Yamaguchi
30
Hiroto Noda
32
Shunsuke Hayashi
34
Ryuki Osa ↑ 62'

Coach Shigetoshi Hasebe

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Yu Kobayashi	6
Akihiro Ienaga	4
Leandro Damiao	4
Yasuto Wakizaka	4
Shinzo Koroki	4
Shinzo Koroki	3
Tomoaki Okubo	2
Ken Iwao	2

Head to Head

Urawa Red Diamonds Form

2026-04-29 Urawa Red Diamonds 2–0 Kawasaki Frontale W 2026-04-25 Urawa Red Diamonds 2–3 Yokohama F.Marinos L 2026-04-18 Kashima Antlers 1–0 Urawa Red Diamonds L 2026-04-12 Urawa Red Diamonds 2–3 Tokyo Verdy L 2026-04-05 Kawasaki Frontale 3–2 Urawa Red Diamonds L 2026-03-22 Urawa Red Diamonds 1–2 FC Machida Zelvia L

Kawasaki Frontale Form

2026-04-29 Urawa Red Diamonds 2–0 Kawasaki Frontale L 2026-04-25 Kawasaki Frontale 2–1 JEF United Ichihara Chiba W 2026-04-18 Yokohama F.Marinos 1–2 Kawasaki Frontale W 2026-04-12 Kawasaki Frontale 0–2 Kashima Antlers L 2026-04-05 Kawasaki Frontale 3–2 Urawa Red Diamonds W 2026-03-28 FC Machida Zelvia 1–0 Kawasaki Frontale L

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

2 / 4

2.18 Urawa Red Diamonds xG

Expected Goals

Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo

1.6 Kawasaki Frontale xG

I would bet for: Over 2.5 goals 71% + Both teams to score 70%

Match Result

✓ Correct

Urawa Red Diamonds49% Draw23% Kawasaki Frontale28%

Actual: Urawa Red Diamonds win

Both Teams to Score

✗ Wrong

Yes70% 0% No30%

Avg goals/match: 3.78

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✗ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	96%	4%
± 1.5	89%	11%
± 2.5	71%	29%
± 3.5	51%	49%
± 4.5	33%	67%

Double Chance

Urawa Red Diamonds or Draw

72%

Draw or Kawasaki Frontale

51%

Urawa Red Diamonds or Kawasaki Frontale

77%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

Urawa Red Diamonds38% Draw39% Kawasaki Frontale23%

Actual: Draw at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

8.8%

2 – 1

8.4%

2 – 2

6.6%

1 – 2

6.2%

3 – 1

2 – 0

Actual

3 – 2

4.8%

1 – 0

4.5%

3 – 0

3.9%

2 – 3

3.5%

0 – 0

3.5%

4 – 1

3.3%

Asian Handicap — Urawa Red Diamonds

Handicap	Urawa Red Diamonds covers	Push	Kawasaki Frontale covers
-2.5	15%	—	85%
-2	15%	15%	70%
-1.5	30%	—	70%
-1	30%	20%	50%
-0.5	50%	—	50%
+0.5	72%	—	28%
+1	72%	14%	14%
+1.5	86%	—	14%
+2	86%	8%	5%
+2.5	95%	—	5%

Clean Sheet

Urawa Red Diamonds keeps clean sheet

21% ✗

Kawasaki Frontale keeps clean sheet

12% ✓

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.