Urawa Red Diamonds vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima
How the goals came
6' Tsukasa Morishima opens the scoring for Sanfrecce Hiroshima (the winner) → 25' Douglas Vieira extends Sanfrecce Hiroshima's lead → 63' Rhayner extends Sanfrecce Hiroshima's lead → 80' Taisei Watari extends Sanfrecce Hiroshima's lead. Full time: 0-4, Sanfrecce Hiroshima win.
The match, goal by goal
2 of the 4 goals came after half-time.
6' Tsukasa Morishima (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 0-1
The match turned in the sixth minute. Sanfrecce Hiroshima, playing away, went ahead through Tsukasa Morishima to make it 0-1. Urawa Red Diamonds never recovered the lead from that point on, and Morishima's strike stood as the winning goal.
25' Douglas Vieira (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 0-2
In the 25th minute Douglas Vieira added a second, stretching Hiroshima's advantage to 0-2. Both goals had come before the interval, leaving Urawa two behind in front of the 33,235 spectators at Saitama Stadium 2002.
63' Rhayner (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 0-3
The pattern did not change after the restart. Rhayner made it 0-3 in the 63rd minute, the third goal of the afternoon for Hiroshima. With that, Urawa needed three goals in the time remaining.
80' Taisei Watari (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 0-4
Taisei Watari completed the scoring in the 80th minute for 0-4. Hiroshima had struck twice in each half to finish the afternoon with a four-goal win on the road. Urawa ended their home fixture of 26 May 2019 without a goal.
