Takuya Aoki: Good display in Riyadh is vital to Urawa’s title hopes

Urawa’s hosts are undefeated in this year’s continental competition though, and a visit to a King Fahd International Stadium that is expected to be filled to its 67,000 capacity with a passionate and partisan crowd is a daunting prospect for any team.

Midfielder Aoki, however, cites an equally tough task in the semi-finals against Shanghai SIPG which the J.League club were able to safely negotiate having endured a tough first leg away in the Chinese city.