Match Review: Hotspurs FC vs FC Nippon

• GK Martyn U'ren
• DF Tom Hine
• DF Aaron Jones
• DF James Keane
• MD Ali Roseburgh
• MD Joshua Donavan
• ST Jack Skinner
• -- Daniel Krzystek
• -- Mark Hadlow
• -- Martin Lawrence
• -- Joe Batchelor

• MD Lionel Kong
• -- Warren Rixon
• -- Barry McVeigh
• -- Justin Schoeltens
• -- Patrick Sheriff

Off and Running

Hotspurs will be pleased to get their first point of the new campaign under their belts with Friday evening's 2-2 draw with Nippon. They will however probably also feel slightly hard done by not to take all the points on the night. Hotspurs started strongly- getting on to the front foot with some good link-up play up top- and it was new signing Daniel (combining with none other than best friend Jack) who netted the first of the night with a neat finish into the bottom corner. Nippon equalised shortly after when Hotspurs failed to deal with a long free kick into the box, but Daniel got onto the scoresheet again to make it 2-1 from a Roseburgh assist. Hotspurs proceeded to press the opposition back well- always looking dangerous on the break and from the Lawro set piece, but they were left to regret not putting the game to bed when a very harsh Nippon free-kick squeezed under the wall for the equaliser late on. Thanks to Nippon for a competitive game as always, and on to Vikings next week.

• Takaki NAKAMURA GK
• Ryuhei IKEDA MD
• Minato HORIUCHI --
• Satoshi KABAYAMA --
• Daisuke NANAI --
• Masashi SUEHIRO --
• Tetsu KAKIMOTO --
• Wataru HASEGAWA --
• Hiroyuki UCHIDA --
• Ryota MURAKI --
• Yuki SUGIMOTO --

• Seiji DAIKUHARA --
• Sho YAMAMOTO --
• Koji NISHINA --
• Kosuke SAKAI --

Starting member (4 - 3 - 3) GK taka DF Hase kaba Nanai Muraki MF sugi Ike utchī FW kakkī Sue Minato benchi: Daiku kōji Sakai shō 1st Half 17 min Hotspur got goal 0 - 1 30min FK from Ikeda, Suehiro got a goal 1 - 1 2nd Half 20 min Hotspur got an additional score 1 - 2 25 min player chainring daiku (IN) - sugi (auto), shō (IN) - Minato (auto) 35 min By FK, Uchida scored 2 - 2 Draw