J1 League

J1 100 YEAR VISION LEAGUE WESTERN GROUP

Game 11 (match brought forward)

Shimizu S-Pulse 0-2 Vissel Kobe

Date: Wednesday April 1st, 7:00 pm

Miaki Park Stadium (Kobe)

S-PULSE GOALS

YELLOW CARDS Inoue (74)

RED CARDS

PENALTY KICK

ATTENDANCE 10069

LINE UP

GK Umeda

DF Yoshida, Park, Sumiyoshi, Kitazume

MF Capixaba, Uno, Kozuka, Nakahara

FW Chiba, Oh

SUBSTITUTIONS

Brunetti on for Capixaba (46)

Inoue on for Chiba (46)

Shimamoto on for Nakahara (56)

Yumiba on for Kozuka (68)

Hidaka on for Yoshida (79)

REPORT

We were simply outfoxed by a top ranked club whish had learned their lesson in their (slightly lucky on our side, truth be told) defeat on our home soil in the first half of the competition.

This game will become a study when we had to change our regular formation 4-2-3 to 4-4-2 with the introduction of quite e few different players as starting members or substitutes.

The score is bit severe considering we dominated the possession, number of passes and pass accuracy, but we were undone in the attacking department where we showed only 5 shots to the goal to their 7 and only 3 on target to their 5 but still managed to lose by two goals (including a penalty)

Our adversaries of the day simply showed more realism and killing instinct. AS usual we played entertaining football with no reward.

But we have still vastly improved on last year erratic performances.

This is still a new team, players, concept and management.

We do need more vigilance and a sharper killing instinct.

We will probably finish in the top half of the group, but it should become a better situation when the real League starts in summer.

On Sunday, we will once again lay away from our bases in Nagasaki against a team almost of the same level. It promises to be highly contested. We know what we have to do!

NEXT GAME

J1 League

J1 100 YEAR VISION LEAGUE WESTERN GROUP

Game 9

Shimizu S-Pulse vs V-Varen Nagasaki

Date: Sunday April 5th, 1:00 pm

PEACE STADIUM Connected by SoftBank (Nagasaki)