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Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata · J1 League

Urawa Red Diamonds beat Albirex Niigata 1-0 in the J1 League. Full match statistics, the goal timeline and both lineups are below.

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Match report

Urawa Red Diamonds and Albirex Niigata met in the J1 League at Saitama Stadium 2002 in Saitama on Sunday, 31 August 2025.

Goalscorers

Urawa Red Diamonds: M. Sávio 30'. Albirex Niigata did not score.

How the match went

The referee showed 2 yellow cards (1 for Urawa Red Diamonds, 1 for Albirex Niigata).

Line-ups

Urawa Red Diamonds started in a 4-2-3-1: Shusaku Nishikawa, Hirokazu Ishihara, Danilo Boza, Marius Høibråten, Takuya Ogiwara, Kaito Yasui, Samuel Gustafson, Takuro Kaneko, Shoya Nakajima, Matheus Sávio, Hiiro Komori.

Albirex Niigata started in a 4-4-2: Ryuga Tashiro, Soya Fujiwara, Michael James Fitzgerald, Kakeru Funaki, Yuto Horigome, Matheus Moraes, Hiroto Uemura, Eiji Shirai, Motoki Ohara, Abdelrahman Boudah, Motoki Hasegawa.

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Minute by minute

  1. 30'Goal! Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata. M. Sávio (Urawa Red Diamonds) scores, assisted by T. Kaneko.
  2. 45'Half-time. Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata.
  3. 90'Full-time. Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata.
Full commentary (49 lines)
  1. 1'Kick-off: Urawa Red Diamonds vs Albirex Niigata.
  2. 1'Attempt missed. E. Shirai (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot. xG 0.02.
  3. 2'Attempt blocked. M. Sávio (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.01.
  4. 2'Attempt saved. T. Ogiwara (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.14.
  5. 2'Attempt blocked. S. Nakajima (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.01.
  6. 6'Attempt saved. A. Boudah (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot. xG 0.43.
  7. 6'Attempt missed. M. Ohara (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot. xG 0.08.
  8. 8'Attempt saved. M. Ohara (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot. xG 0.09.
  9. 9'Attempt missed. H. Uemura (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot from a corner. xG 0.04.
  10. 11'Attempt missed. M. Moraes (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot. xG 0.07.
  11. 15'Attempt blocked. K. Yasui (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.01.
  12. 16'Attempt saved. S. Nakajima (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.04.
  13. 17'Attempt saved. S. Nakajima (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.08.
  14. 21'Attempt missed. H. Komori (Urawa Red Diamonds), left-footed shot. xG 0.15.
  15. 22'Attempt blocked. S. Nakajima (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.20.
  16. 23'Attempt blocked. A. Boudah (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot. xG 0.05.
  17. 30'Goal! Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata. M. Sávio (Urawa Red Diamonds) scores, assisted by T. Kaneko.
  18. 42'Yellow card for M. Sávio (Urawa Red Diamonds).
  19. 45'3 minutes of added time.
  20. 45+1'Attempt missed. M. Moraes (Albirex Niigata), header. xG 0.03.
  21. 45'Half-time. Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata.
  22. 46'The second half is under way.
  23. 48'Attempt missed. M. Moraes (Albirex Niigata), header from a corner. xG 0.08.
  24. 49'Attempt saved. A. Boudah (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot. xG 0.15.
  25. 50'Attempt missed. S. Nakajima (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.13.
  26. 53'Attempt missed. H. Komori (Urawa Red Diamonds), header. xG 0.09.
  27. 58'Attempt missed. S. Fujiwara (Albirex Niigata), header from a set piece. xG 0.08.
  28. 59'Substitution, Urawa Red Diamonds: T. Matsumoto comes on for S. Gustafson.
  29. 59'Substitution, Urawa Red Diamonds: Y. Matsuo comes on for S. Nakajima.
  30. 63'Attempt missed. M. Ohara (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot. xG 0.02.
  31. 64'Substitution, Albirex Niigata: T. Shimamura comes on for M. Moraes.
  32. 68'Attempt blocked. S. Fujiwara (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot from a corner. xG 0.08.
  33. 70'Attempt missed. M. Ohara (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot. xG 0.06.
  34. 76'Substitution, Albirex Niigata: J. Okumura comes on for M. Ohara.
  35. 76'Substitution, Albirex Niigata: K. Hashimoto comes on for Y. Horigome.
  36. 76'Substitution, Albirex Niigata: K. Taniguchi comes on for H. Uemura.
  37. 78'Attempt missed. A. Boudah (Albirex Niigata), header. xG 0.38.
  38. 81'Substitution, Urawa Red Diamonds: Y. Naganuma comes on for T. Ogiwara.
  39. 81'Substitution, Urawa Red Diamonds: K. Shibato comes on for K. Yasui.
  40. 82'Attempt blocked. T. Shimamura (Albirex Niigata), left-footed shot from a corner. xG 0.05.
  41. 85'Attempt saved. A. Boudah (Albirex Niigata), right-footed shot. xG 0.04.
  42. 86'Substitution, Albirex Niigata: Y. Takagi comes on for M. Hasegawa.
  43. 88'Substitution, Urawa Red Diamonds: T. Sekine comes on for T. Kaneko.
  44. 89'Attempt missed. T. Sekine (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.08.
  45. 89'Attempt saved. Y. Naganuma (Urawa Red Diamonds), right-footed shot. xG 0.04.
  46. 90'7 minutes of added time.
  47. 90+3'Attempt blocked. T. Sekine (Urawa Red Diamonds), left-footed shot. xG 0.11.
  48. 90+5'Yellow card for M. J. Fitzgerald (Albirex Niigata).
  49. 90'Full-time. Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 Albirex Niigata.
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