Meiji Yasuda J2 League

Match 18

Shimizu S-Pulse 3-0 Zweigen Kanazawa

Sunday May 28th 2:00pm

IAI Stadium Nihondaira (Shizuoka)

S-PULSE GOALS Carlinhos (33), Kamiya (41), Oh Se-Hun (79)

YELLOW CARDS

RED CARDS

PENALTY KICK

ATTENDANCE 14401

LINE UP

GK Gonda

DF Yoshida. Takahashi, Ibayashi, Kitazume

MF Carlinhos, Miyamoto, Inui, Shirasaki, Kamiya

FW Santana

SUBSTITUTIONS

Kishimot on for Carlinhos (49)

Disaro on for Kamiya (64)

Oh Se-Hun on for Santana (64)

Kololli on for Yoshida (85)

Naruoka on for Inui (85)

REPORT

A solid win that puts us back on the right tracks and within 5 points of the second straight promotion spot.

The score could and should have been higher, especially in the first half practically completely dominate by S-Pulse

Right from the 10th minute we could have scored after intercepting a wayward clearing but Inui’s last kick was deflected in the end.

In the 14th minute Santana almost scored on the rebound of a long range shot that the opposite keeper failed to control first.

In the 33rd minute Carlinhos opened the score with a nice curving shot past the goal keeper inside the far post after S-Pulse had countered an inept Kanazawa’s defense.

The 41st minute saw another inept Kanazawa’s defense give away a ball that Inui hit the far post with before Kamiya fired the rebound from outside the box.

In extra time Santana almost score with a log-range shot after the ball had been stolen once again by pressing S-Pulse’s forwards.

In the 53rd minute a fine movement ended with Yoshida sending the perfect cross from the left but Inui’s diving heading just flew past the post.

The 66th minute witnessed Kanazawa’s first real chance when S-Pulse gave away the ball that was fortunately struck right in Gonda’s arms.

Three minutes later Kanazawa had a dangerous free kick but Gonda produced the perfect save when the ball had been headed on his left.

The 79th minute saw a goal epitomizing the game when the S-Pulse’s forward kept pressing the Kanazawa’s defense into losing the ball which rolled to the feet of Oh Se-Hun finding himself alone facing the opposite keeper he had no problems beating.

The last minute saw the pressing S-Pulse again steal the ball with Kololli barely missing the goal with a good curving effort aimed inside the far post.

The next game will take us on Saturday to Yamagata against a team S-Pulse will do well to take very seriously. Let us hope we will keep again closing onto the leaders of the League!

NEXT GAME

Meiji Yasuda J2 League

Match 19

Shimizu S-Pulse vs Montedio Yamagata

Saturday June 3rd 2:00pm

ND Soft Stadium (Tendo)