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Endo put Ricardo Rodrguez’s side ahead in the 47th minute at Kashiwa Soccer Stadium and Fujio doubled the lead 10 minutes later as Kashiwa picked up their second win of the campaign while Daejeon remain on four points from four matches.
Kashiwa made a positive start with Hinata Yamauchi shooting straight at Lee Chang-guen, who gathered the 11th minute shot at the second attempt while Endo looped his header from a corner over the bar three minutes later.
Wataru Harada then flashed his strike from 20 yards out across the face of the Daejeon goal before Fujio should have put his side in front, the former Machida Zelvia forward scooping the ball over the bar from three yards out.
Daejeon had been second best throughout the opening quarter, with Joao Victor’s 21st minute strike the closest Hwang Sun-hong’s side had come to registering but Taiyo Koga pushed that effort to safety as he dived at full-stretch to his left.
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Victor went close again with seven minutes left in the half, his long-range strike bouncing just wide of Koga’s left post while Daejeon’s Lee Chang-guen denied Endo at the end of a flowing Kashiwa move soon after.
There was little Lee Chang-guen could do to deny Kashiwa the opener two minutes after the restart, however, when Tojiro Kubo burst down the right side of the penalty area to set up Endo to stroke in at the far post.
The Daejeon goalkeeper made a fine double save to prevent Yamauchi and Fujio from adding to the home side’s lead in the 56th minute but, less than 60 seconds later, the visiting defence was undone again.
Nobuteru Nakagawa was released down the right flank by Harada and, after bypassing Anton Kryvotsiuk, he coolly rolled the ball across goal for Fujio to slot in.
Kenshin Yuba was denied the opportunity to score Kashiwa’s third by Lee Chang-guen’s save while the goalkeeper also kept out Mao Hosoya’s low strike as the home side continued to dominate.
Daejeon pushed for a way back into the game in the dying moments with Seo Jin-su and Joo Min-kyu threatening, but Kashiwa held out to pick up a deserved victory.
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