Urawa Red Diamonds defeat Sanfrecce Hiroshima in a thrilling match
Saitama, Japan – Urawa Red Diamonds defeated Sanfrecce Hiroshima 3-0 in a thrilling encounter that took place at the Saitama Stadium 2002.
The first goal of the match came in the 45th minute, courtesy of Y. Matsuo, who capitalized on a pass from T. Sekine to open the scoring. In the 56th minute, B. Linssen extended Urawa’s lead, while G. Haraguchi sealed the victory in the 86th minute after an assist from N. Maeda.
Urawa dominated the game in the second half, creating numerous scoring opportunities. Sanfrecce Hiroshima, for their part, tried to react, but couldn’t find a way to the goal.
Despite the defeat, Sanfrecce Hiroshima had more possession of the ball (60% compared to Urawa’s 40%), but Urawa were more effective in attack, making 12 shots, 7 of them on target, compared to Sanfrecce’s 22 shots, only 5 of them on target.
With this victory, Urawa Red Diamonds consolidate their position at the top of the J1 League table, while Sanfrecce Hiroshima will have to look for victory in their next encounter to avoid losing ground in the standings.
Substitutions sanfrecce hiroshima: at minute 52 G. Paciencia came in and N. Arai went out., at minute 66 Y. Kashiwa came in and S. Higashi went out., at minute 66 M. Mitsuta came in and T. Matsumoto went out., at minute 80 P. Sotiriou came in and T. Shiotani went out., at minute 80 D. Vieira came in and H. Kawabe went out.
Substitutions urawa: at minute 76 N. Maeda came in and T. Sekine went out., at minute 76 Thiago Santana came in and B. Linssen went out., at minute 80 G. Haraguchi came in and Y. Matsuo went out., at minute 89 H. Takeda came in and S. Gustafson went out., at minute 89 S. Nakajima came in and R. Watanabe went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Urawa
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