Hiroaki Okuno and Takuma Nishimura both scored in the second half as Vegalta Sendai beat Kashiwa Reysol 2-0 on Saturday to claim their first J. League win in four games.
Vegalta went into the match at Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium having picked up only four points from their five games since the league resumed after the World Cup break — a period which included an 8-2 thrashing at the hands of Yokohama F. Marinos on July 18.
But Okuno gave Vegalta the lead against Reysol with a header in the 59th minute before substitute Nishimura doubled the advantage in the 80th minute, sending Susumu Watanabe's men back to Sendai with all three points and lifting them from 12th to eighth in the table.