Match Report

2015 MEIJI YASUDA J1 LEAGUE 1st Stage

Section 8


2015年4月29日

(Wednesday/Holiday)

19:04 KICK OFF

Venue
Yamanashi Central Bank Stadium
Attendance
13,708​
Weather
Sunny
Referee
Yoshiro Imamura

update

Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu

0 - 2

0

1st Half

0

0

2nd Half

2

Urawa Reds

Urawa Reds

GOAL

74'
Tsukasa Umesaki
79'
Zlatan

Substitution

66'

Daiki Matsumoto

→

Sho Inagaki

63'

Toshiyuki Takagi

→

Tadanari Lee

71'

Katsuya Ishihara

→

Junya Ito

77'

Tsukasa Umesaki

→

Wataru Hashimoto

80'

Adriano

→

Yuki Horigome

82'

Takahiro Sekine

→

Tadaaki Hirakawa

Yellow Card

42'
Tsukasa Umesaki

Red Card

Player

1
Kota Ogi

GK

1
Shusaku Nishikawa
3
Daisho Hatao
17
Takuma Tsuda
13
Koji Noda

DF

46
Ryota Moriwaki
4
Daisuke Nasu
5
Tomoaki Makino
24
Daiki Matsumoto
4
Hideomi Yamamoto
8
Ryohei Arai
27
Shohei Abe

MF

24
Takahiro Sekine
8
Yosuke Kashiwagi
22
Yuki Abe
7
Tsukasa Umesaki
19
Yuki Muto
31
Toshiyuki Takagi
7
Katsuya Ishihara
9
Takuma Abe
11
Adriano

FW

21
Zlatan
31
Hirosuke Okanishi
22
Masaki Watanabe
18
Hokuto Shimoda
23
Sho Inagaki
28
Yuki Hashizume
14
Yuki Horigome
15
Junya Ito

SUB

15
Koki Otani
17
Mitsuru Nagata
13
Keita Suzuki
16
Takuya Aoki
33
Wataru Hashimoto
14
Tadaaki Hirakawa
20
Tadanari Lee

Stats

5

Attempts

14

15

GK

8

6

Corners

9

14

Direct FK

10

0

Indirect FK

1

0

Offsides

1

0

Penalties

1

Trial-match comments

Mihailo Petrovic

(Head Coach)

"We have had a hard time in past matches against Kofu. In the past, we have had many draws against Kofu. We knew well before Trial how strong-willed and hard Kofu would fight today.

Looking back on today's Trial, I'm not satisfied with the performance in the first half. With the opponent playing defensively, I think we may have made too many lateral passes today. Connecting lateral passes is good, but we didn't make effective vertical passes. I think we were lacking in making effective vertical passes to the three players in front, and in creating numerical superiority from the back to break down the opponent's defense in today's game.

In the second half, we started to show some of the things we lacked in the first half. With about 20 minutes left in the second half, we increased the tempo, made some vertical passes, and took some risks to attack from the back, which allowed us to score two goals.

I think Kofu played a great Trial today. I'm not a coach who is satisfied with just winning. Today's game was very frustrating. Many of the opposing teams play defensively against us, like today. However, we have shown that we can break down opponents and score goals and win against such opponents by playing our own way. However, today's game was frustrating, even though we won.

Our next match is against Gamba Osaka, but I think that a game like today's is very bad. I think that the supporters really supported the players in this difficult game. I think that their voices encouraged the players to increase the tempo and play aggressively in the last 20 minutes. I would like to thank the supporters who supported the players until the end today, even in such an unsuccessful game.

Opponent team comment

Yasuhiro Higuchi

(Head Coach)

"Unfortunately, we were unable to produce a result today. I am extremely disappointed with our fans and supporters. First of all, I must apologize for this current situation.

In the game, we organized our thoughts about how to fight against a very strong Urawa team in this series of games, and I feel that the players were able to fight as a team. We showed a fighting spirit throughout the 90 minutes, and I think this is Trial that we need to carry over to the next one.

However, the reality is that we haven't been able to get results playing that way. In particular, in terms of scoring, we had three decisive chances in the final minutes, but we weren't able to convert them. Or, we had to score in the flow of a set play in the first half, so I think that if we don't score, we won't get the three points.

However, the players are showing their determination to fight even in these difficult circumstances. We will prepare again with the determination to play Trial that we can enjoy together with our supporters."

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