Match highlights
Kashiwa Reysol vs Vissel Kobe highlights
How the goals came
27' Shota Fujio opens the scoring for Kashiwa Reysol → 53' Hinata Yamauchi extends Kashiwa Reysol's lead → 64' Tojiro Kubo extends Kashiwa Reysol's lead (the winner) → 81' Ren Komatsu pulls one back for Vissel Kobe → 84' Yusuke Segawa extends Kashiwa Reysol's lead → 88' Diego pulls one back for Vissel Kobe. Full time: 4-2, Kashiwa Reysol win.
The match, goal by goal
5 of the 6 goals came after half-time.
27' Shota Fujio (Kashiwa Reysol) 1-0
The match was still level at 0-0 when Shota Fujio put Kashiwa Reysol ahead in the 27th minute. It was the opening goal of the evening at Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium, and the home side never surrendered the lead it had taken before half-time. From 1-0, Kashiwa went on to win 4-2.
53' Hinata Yamauchi (Kashiwa Reysol) 2-0
Eight minutes into the second half, Hinata Yamauchi doubled the home advantage. The goal in the 53rd minute took the score from 1-0 to 2-0 and left Vissel Kobe needing two to level. Yamauchi was the second different scorer for Kashiwa Reysol on the night, after Fujio.
64' Tojiro Kubo (Kashiwa Reysol) 3-0
Tojiro Kubo made it 3-0 in the 64th minute, the third Kashiwa Reysol goal from a third different scorer. Vissel Kobe had yet to reply and now trailed by three. The visitors would score twice late on, but never closed the gap opened here.
81' Ren Komatsu (Vissel Kobe) 3-1
Ren Komatsu gave Vissel Kobe their first goal of the match in the 81st minute, reducing the margin to 3-1. It arrived with the visitors having trailed by three since the 64th minute and under ten minutes of normal time left. The response was short-lived, as Kashiwa Reysol scored again three minutes later.
84' Yusuke Segawa (Kashiwa Reysol) 4-1
Three minutes after Kobe had struck, Yusuke Segawa made it 4-1 in the 84th minute. The lead was back to three goals, and a fourth different Kashiwa Reysol player had scored. It proved to be the home side's last goal of the evening.
88' Diego (Vissel Kobe) 4-2
Diego scored Vissel Kobe's second of the night in the 88th minute to make it 4-2. Three goals had come in the closing eight minutes, two of them for the visitors. Nothing changed after that, and Kashiwa Reysol took the match 4-2.
