SHANGHAI (Interstat) — Machida defeated Shanghai Shenhua 1-0 on Thursday in a global football match, relying on Ryohei Shirasaki’s 28th-minute goal to secure the result. Shirasaki scored the only goal of the game. Machida held its lead after halftime and kept Shenhua from equalizing. Xie Pengfei received a yellow card in the 77th minute for Shanghai Shenhua. Machida made substitutions in the 63rd, 72nd, and 82nd minutes, with Nishimura T. and Duke M. entering in the 63rd, Mochizuki H. and Shimoda H. in the 72nd, and Sento K. in the 82nd. Shanghai Shenhua brought on Teixeira J. and Gao Tianyi in the 74th, Asue L. in the 80th, and Jiang Shenglong in the 82nd. The win moved Machida to 2-0-0 in this competition and 5-0-1 across all competitions. Shanghai Shenhua fell to 0-1-1 in this competition and 2-2-1 overall. Machida stayed unbeaten in the competition.