Kawasaki Frontale vs Urawa Red Diamonds
How the goals came
16' Yu Kobayashi opens the scoring for Kawasaki Frontale → 29' Hiroyuki Abe extends Kawasaki Frontale's lead (the winner) → 73' Tomoaki Makino pulls one back for Urawa Red Diamonds → 82' Yu Kobayashi extends Kawasaki Frontale's lead → 84' Tatsuya Hasegawa extends Kawasaki Frontale's lead. Full time: 4-1, Kawasaki Frontale win.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 5 goals came after half-time.
16' Yu Kobayashi (Kawasaki Frontale) 1-0
Kawasaki Frontale opened the scoring at Todoroki Athletics Stadium on 5 July 2017. With the match still level at 0-0, Yu Kobayashi struck in the 16th minute to put the home side in front. Kawasaki never surrendered that lead, going on to win 4-1.
29' Hiroyuki Abe (Kawasaki Frontale) 2-0
By the 29th minute the margin had doubled. Hiroyuki Abe added the second goal for Kawasaki Frontale, and the hosts went to the interval 2-0 ahead. Both of their first-half goals came inside the opening half hour.
73' Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds) 2-1
Urawa Red Diamonds found a response in the 73rd minute. Tomoaki Makino pulled a goal back for 2-1, cutting the visitors' deficit to one. It proved to be Urawa's only goal of the evening.
82' Yu Kobayashi (Kawasaki Frontale) 3-1
Kawasaki Frontale restored their two-goal cushion within nine minutes of conceding. Yu Kobayashi scored again in the 82nd minute, his second of the match after the 16th-minute opener, for 3-1. The goal left Urawa Red Diamonds needing two in the closing stages.
84' Tatsuya Hasegawa (Kawasaki Frontale) 4-1
Two minutes after Kobayashi's second, Tatsuya Hasegawa completed the scoring in the 84th minute. The quick double late in the match took Kawasaki Frontale to 4-1, the score that would stand. It closed out a home win watched by 22,561 at Todoroki Athletics Stadium.
