Having tasted success with the Japan national team at the 2011 Asian Cup, Urawa Reds striker Tadanari Lee is hungry for more continental glory, this time at club level in the Asian Champions League.

Lee has scored four goals in the ACL this campaign and will be looking to add to that haul when Reds face Kawasaki Frontale away in the first leg of an all-Japanese quarterfinal on Wednesday night.

"The feeling of winning the Asian Cup in 2011 made me so happy. It was an amazing feeling the moment I lifted the trophy," said Lee, whose superb volley in an extra-time 1-0 win over Australia in Doha secured Japan a record fourth Asian title.

"I want to experience that sort of moment again in my career," he said after Tuesday's training session.

"Reds are in the quarterfinals so we are in with a chance of winning it. I want us to be crowned Asian champions and then we can take on the world (in the Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in December)."

Reds, ACL champions in 2007, will need to do a lot better in Wednesday's game than they did when they last faced Kawasaki in the J-League on July 5.

Kawasaki won that contest 4-1 and having lost only once in their last 10 league outings, Toru Oniki's men will be confident of getting the first part of the job done in front of home fans.

Reds recently parted company with manager Mihailo Petrovic but have won two and drawn one of their three games so far under his successor Takafumi Hori.

"The situation in the team was difficult (when Reds lost 4-1 to Frontale) and it will be different for this game," Lee said. "I think if we go into the game with a defensive approach and then look to counter then we will score goals."

"We need to get an away goal. Frontale are really good at moving the ball around and we need to play with the spirit we had when we had only nine men (in a 2-0 defeat on July 29) against Sapporo," said the 31-year-old.

"If we outrun them then we will be able to break down their attacks and turn them into raids forward for us. But if we don't run our socks off, then we are definitely going to lose the match."