Low had been expected to watch Schalke host Bayern Munich in a top-of-the-table Bundesliga match on Saturday but opted at the last minute to go to the midtable game between VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Moenchengladbach.
As German media pointed out, he was 452 kilometres away when Kuranyi scored his 18th league goal of the season - making him joint top-scorer with Bayer Leverkusen's Stefan Kiessling and VfL Wolfsburg's Edin Dzeko - in Schalke's 2-1 defeat.
"It was guaranteed that the cameras would have been focused on Low with every good Kuranyi move," said Welt newspaper's website, speculating on Low's surprise decision to skip the top match of the Bundesliga season so far.
Mario Gomez is also far from the form which made him the Bundesliga's most expensive signing when he joined Bayern Munich at the start of the season.
"Stefan Kiessling is a top class striker and I think Kevin Kuranyi is also good," Bayer Leverkusen coach Jupp Heynckes told reporters after Kiessling scored twice in Leverkusen's 3-2 defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt.
"If Podolski and Klose start clicking, then we will have a great strikeforce for the World Cup."
