Japanese J.League

Urawa Red Diamonds vs Albirex Niigata, 2023 Japanese J1 League

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Urawa Red Diamonds
  • 35': Hiroki Sakai
  • 45'+2': Takahiro Akimoto
FT
2 - 1
Albirex Niigata
  • 10': Shusuke Ota

About

Urawa Red Diamonds are hosting Albirex Niigata at Urawa Komaba Stadium, Saitama, Japan, starting on . The match is a part of the Japanese J.League.

Game Information

Competition: Japanese J.League

Venue: Urawa Komaba Stadium
Location: Saitama, Japan
Attendance: 15,167

Japanese J1 League Table

# TEAM GP GD PTS
1 Avispa Fukuoka 0 0 0
2 Cerezo Osaka 0 0 0
3 Fagiano Okayama 0 0 0
4 Gamba Osaka 0 0 0
Full Table

Line-Ups

URA Urawa Red Diamonds

No. Name
1 Shusaku Nishikawa (GK)
5 Marius Hoibraten
15 Takahiro Akimoto
2 Hiroki Sakai
28 Alexander Scholz
8 Yoshio Koizumi Yellow Card
3 Atsuki Ito
19 Ken Iwao
21 Tomoaki Okubo
14 Takahiro Sekine
30 Shinzo Koroki
Urawa Red Diamonds Substitutes:
Takuya Ogiwara, Bryan Linssen, Yuichi Hirano, Zion Suzuki, Takuya Iwanami, David Moberg-Karlsson, Kaito Yasui.

ALB Albirex Niigata

No. Name
1 Ryosuke Kojima (GK)
15 Taiki Watanabe
3 Thomas Deng
5 Michael James
2 Naoto Arai
19 Yuji Hoshi
11 Shusuke Ota
20 Yuzuru Shimada
13 Ryotaro Ito
14 Shunsuke Mito
9 Koji Suzuki
Albirex Niigata Substitutes:
Danilo Gomes, Jinpei Yoshida, Koto Abe, Yota Komi, Yuto Horigome, Fumiya Hayakawa, Gustavo Nescau.

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