Match Review: TGA Rangers FC vs FC Nippon

• DF Chris Jones
• DF Jonathan Cloak
• DF Sivakumar Arumugam
• DF Fraser Anderson
• DF Kevin Slack
• DF Jordan Laing
• MD Sam Barrett
• MD Paddy Sutton
• ST Salvatore Adaldo
• -- Chris Fowler
• -- Hayden James Ng

• DF Jinesh Patel
• ST Mike Sharples
• -- Hauke Wahn
• -- Olly Griffin

Rangers, Rangers, Rangers....... very own Beetlejuice as we do our best to keep 3 points at bay!

[8:43 PM, 2/6/2018] +65 9727 5725: Rangers went into the game looking to amend for the prior week defeat. We turned up with a solid 15, but we always know how important it is to start well against Nippon. They are fast and move the ball well, so we looked to stamp that out early and try edge and early lead. The early lead did not arrive and to be honest, we left Salvo too exposed up front on his own. It made difficult work as we sought to get more support from Fraser and Beatts, but it was a frustrating half as we did not really get our foot on the ball and put Nippon under the pressure we sought to do so. Half time came, we made a bold move in taking Fraser off and putting on Sharples. He stepped into the lime-light as only he knows how. Scoring 3 in 45 mins, you would think the game would be out of sight and 3 points in the bag. Sadly wrong. For the 3 we scored, we also conceded 3 identical goals. If you were to watch the game in highlight mode you would be convinced you were watching Instant Replay of the first goal for both the second and third. That was disappointing from Rangers view, but it was good to see Sharples bang them in again. Unfortunately, both sides were reduced to 10 men, Nippon for a 2nd yellow and for us, we lost Paddy who caught the ball mid-air while on a yellow thinking it was out of play. (We will say that for his benefit) Brad had a tough game to manage as there were some touchline debate and a few heated exchanges, but that's the game and once all is said an done, we thank Nippon for a tough match and look forward to the next one! Happy Chinese New Year to all in advance. TGA Rangers.

• Takaki NAKAMURA GK
• Seiji TACHIBANA MD
• Kan YAMAMOTO --
• Satoshi KABAYAMA --
• Tetsu KAKIMOTO --
• Yasuaki IMADA --
• Kosuke SAKAI --
• Yuuki OKAMOTO --
• Makito NAKATA --
• Hiroyuki UCHIDA --
• Ryota MURAKI --
• Wataru HASEGAWA --

• Koji NISHINA --
• Minato HORIUCHI --
• Atushi MATSUOKA --
• Yasutaro FUJITA --
• Seiji DAIKUHARA --

Not bad to obtain 1 point against top table team

Following consecutive lost, our guys are hungry for winning. Both did not have any goal in first 45 mins. Rangers had chances at the beginning from FK. Rangers kept feeding long pass towards their target man behind our DFs. We used quick grounder passes they used chip passes. The refree was seemed against us. He gave FKs that cause us crisis. The opened was by Rangers FK. Their clever quick start left only one defender in front of our goal. The ref gave us second yellow to Kaki. 10 man left in 50 mins. Our first goal was by Nakada. His chip was to the goal mouth corner. to be continued in the afternoon.