The Urawa Reds Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
Shoya Nakajima damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Sep 2026
No mercy from Urawa Reds
Sagan Tosu will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Urawa Reds were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Thiago Santana scores twice — 8.59
Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market28 Sep 2026
Urawa Reds may not be able to give Matheus Savio what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Matheus Savio wants continental football; whether Urawa Reds can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Urawa Reds
Takehiro Tomiyasu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Ryoma Watanabe at his very best
Marked 8.84. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Urawa Reds.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Samuel Gustafson falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Samuel Gustafson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Gustafson, and the manager let it.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
Ryusei Sato counts the days
“I watch every Urawa Reds game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Wellington Phoenix runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Kai Shibato
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ado Onaiwu
- The terraces The press have found their man in Ryoma Watanabe