Urawa vs V-varen Nagasaki Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent form across all competitions

Urawa's last 20 matches, spanning J1 League games, friendlies and cup ties, show 7 wins, 5 draws and 8 losses, with 30 scored and 24 conceded. That's a reasonably even record, tilted slightly towards goals scored.

Urawa: 20 completed matches; V-varen Nagasaki: 20 completed matches.

Urawa

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

30

Conceded

24

Difference

+6

V-varen Nagasaki

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

50% 10 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

30

Difference

-6

Nagasaki's equivalent sample reads 8 wins, 2 draws and 10 losses, with 24 for and 30 against. They've won a similar number of games to Urawa but lost more often too, and they've shipped more goals across the same volume of matches.

Urawa's broader sample looks marginally tighter at the back than Nagasaki's.

Comparative Team Statistics: Urawa vs V-varen Nagasaki

Not much head-to-head to go on

These two have only met three times in the available record. The most recent was a J-League Cup tie in May 2024, which Nagasaki won 1-0 at home. Before that, the two league meetings in 2018 were both draws, 0-0 and 1-1.

That's a small, old sample mixing cup and league football, so it doesn't tell us much about how either side is playing right now.

Where they sit in the table

In the current J1 League standings, Urawa are 10th with 12 points from 8 games, having won 4 and lost 4. Nagasaki are down in 15th with 8 points from the same number of matches, with 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses.

Urawa have scored 16 and conceded 18 in the league so far, while Nagasaki have managed just 10 goals and let in 15. On this snapshot, Urawa are the better-placed side, though it's only an 8-game sample.

Urawa hold a clear table advantage at this early stage of the campaign.

Players to watch

Urawa have two players with 4 goals apiece so far this season, Minamino and Matheus Sávio, and Kaneko has chipped in 5 assists in just 7 matches, so their attacking output looks fairly spread out.

Urawa:

Best scorers:

H. Minamino - 4

Matheus Sávio - 4

Best assist providers:

T. Kaneko - 5

R. Watanabe - 3

Penalty cards:

Matheus Sávio x 1 x 1

V-varen Nagasaki:

Best scorers:

Thiago Santana - 3

Nagasaki's main threat on this list is Thiago Santana, with 3 goals in 8 games. There's less depth showing in the data on their end, at least among the names provided.

Urawa appear to have more varied attacking sources based on the players listed.