Regular Season - 24• 20 Jul 2025

Albirex Niigata 0–2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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Goals

2'

S. Higashi

48'

K. Kinoshita

Match Recap

Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat Albirex Niigata 2–0 in the J1 League (Regular Season - 24) on 20 July 2025. Albirex Niigata saw more of the ball with 55% possession, and Albirex Niigata had 12 shots (1 on target) to Sanfrecce Hiroshima's 19 (8 on target). The expected-goals (xG) figures read 0.60 for Albirex Niigata and 3.66 for Sanfrecce Hiroshima. The goals came from S. Higashi 2', K. Kinoshita 48'. Sanfrecce Hiroshima move up to 17 points in J1 League, having won 3 of their last 5. Relive the Albirex Niigata vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima J1 League highlights on Daily Goal: watch every goal and the full match below, free, with each strike timestamped so you can jump straight to the moment it happened.

Match Statistics

Albirex Niigata

VS

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

55% Ball Possession 45%

0.60 Expected goals (xG) 3.66

12 Total Shots 19

1 Shots on target 8

9 Shots off target 8

2 Blocked Shots 3

10 Shots inside box 13

2 Shots outside box 6

5 Corner Kicks 2

1 Offsides 3

10 Fouls 13

2 Yellow Cards 0

— Red Cards —

6 Goalkeeper Saves 1

512 Total passes 415

421 Accurate passes 333

82% Pass accuracy 80%

— Goals prevented —

Lineups

Albirex Niigata

Takafumi Yoshimoto 4-2-3-1

VS

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Michael Heinz Skibbe 3-4-2-1

1Fujita

31Horigome

35Chiba

5Fitzgerald

50Uemura

8Shirai

22Arai

30Okumura

46Kasai

99Ono

17Kinoshita

39Nakamura 9Germain

24Higashi

14Tanaka

6Kawabe 15Nakano

19Sasaki

4Araki 33Shiotani

1Osako

Substitutes — Albirex Niigata

21R. Tashiro 15F. Hayakawa 42K. Hashimoto 77K. Funaki 19Y. Hoshi 28T. Shimamura 33Y. Takagi 9K. Yamura 18Y. Wakatsuki

Substitutes — Sanfrecce Hiroshima

21Y. Tanaka 10Marcos Junior 13N. Arai 18D. Suga 32S. Koshimichi 35Y. Nakajima 41N. Maeda 51M. Kato 98V. Germain