Kawasaki Frontale preserved their unbeaten start to the season with a 2-1 win at home to 10-man Kashiwa Reysol in the J. League first division on Friday night.
Two goals late in the first half from Shogo Taniguchi and last season's J. League Player of the Year Kengo Nakamura put Frontale in control on a cold night at Todoroki Stadium.
Kosuke Taketomi replied for Reysol, but the visitors were unable to make any further inroads after they had Yuta Nakayama sent off midway through the second period.