Urawa Red Diamonds vs Gamba Osaka
How the goals came
43' Kosuke Onose opens the scoring for Gamba Osaka → 49' Shinzo Koroki equalises for Urawa Red Diamonds → 62' Hwang Ui-jo puts Gamba Osaka ahead (the winner) → 69' Ademilson extends Gamba Osaka's lead. Full time: 1-3, Gamba Osaka win.
The match, goal by goal
3 of the 4 goals came after half-time.
43' Kosuke Onose (Gamba Osaka) 0-1
The first half was into its closing stages and still goalless when Kosuke Onose scored in the 43rd minute. The goal put Gamba Osaka ahead at 0-1 and sent the visitors into the interval with the advantage, watched by 43,943 at Saitama Stadium 2002.
49' Shinzo Koroki (Urawa Red Diamonds) 1-1
Urawa Red Diamonds needed only four minutes of the second half to respond. Shinzo Koroki levelled the match at 1-1 in the 49th minute, wiping out the visitors' advantage and restoring the balance with more than forty minutes still to play.
62' Hwang Ui-jo (Gamba Osaka) 1-2
The parity lasted only thirteen minutes. Hwang Ui-jo restored Gamba Osaka's lead in the 62nd minute for 1-2, and the visitors never gave it up again. It stood as the winning goal.
69' Ademilson (Gamba Osaka) 1-3
Seven minutes after Hwang Ui-jo had put Gamba Osaka back in front, Ademilson added a third in the 69th minute. At 1-3, Urawa Red Diamonds were left needing two goals with barely twenty minutes remaining, and that was how the match ended on 3 November 2018.
