©︎︎︎S-PULSE
KINCHO Stadium, Osaka
S-PULSE GOALS Crislan 40
YELLOW CARDS Freire 29
RED CARDS
ATTENDANCE 14628
LINE UP
GK Rokutan
DF Iida, Seok Ho, Freire, Matsubara
MF Shirasaki, Kawai, Kaneko, Ishige
FW Crislan, Kitagawa
SUBSTITUTIONS
Duke on for Crislan (78)
Murata on for Ishige (87)
Hasegawa on for Kawai (88)
REPORT
Lady Luck has completely deserted us for the last three games.
With Iida replacing Tatsuta on National Service in the Asia Championships and Crislan replacing injured Douglas the team looked good enough.
Unfortunately for a great start Kitagawa, Crislan and Ishige missed golden chances before a goal was stupidly conceded because of complacency before Crislan finally slotted in one to give S-Pulse a chance.
Unfortunately S-Pulse players suffering of evident fatigue after the 60th minute were caught flat-footed on two occasions conceding goals reminiscing of last year’s debacles.
S-Pulse could and should killed the game by half time and all in all it was a very frustrating game once again. It should a fairly safe to the end of the season but a boring ones as we seemed to have lost any hope to finish within the first 5 spots of the League which looked so possible 3 weeks ago.
The team will have definitely to perform at home on Sunday against Urawa Reds or it could become a pitiful season again. They have the potential to do a lot better. Let’s hope they will rejoice their fans again!
NEXT GAME
Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Match day 23
Shimizu S-Pulse vs Urawa Reds
Sunday August 19th, 6pm
IAI Stadium Nihondaira, Shizuoka