Football: Mitoma scores in win for Brighton, Endo makes Liverpool debut

Brighton winger Kaoru Mitoma scored his first goal of the season and set up another in a 4-1 victory away to Wolverhampton in the English Premier League on Saturday.

Fellow Japan international Wataru Endo made his debut for Liverpool as he came on as a 62nd-minute substitute in a 3-1 win at home to Bournemouth.

Mitoma opened the scoring in the 15th minute by dribbling into the box and beating goalkeeper Jose Pedro Malheiro de Sa with a composed finish at Molineux Stadium.

Soon after the start of the second half, Brighton doubled their lead when Mitoma set up Pervis Estupinan's strike.

Elsewhere, in the season-opening round of Germany's Bundesliga, Borussia Monchengladbach defender Ko Itakura headed in the first goal of his top-tier German league career in a 4-4 draw at Augsburg.

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