Match Review: Hotspurs FC vs FC Nippon

16-Feb-2019 15:00

League // -
Hotspurs FC
2 - 2
FC Nippon
2
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2
Referee - N/A // Assistans - N/A & N/A
Hotspurs FC

Substitutes

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2-2 Draw

A well-fought match between Nippon and Hotspurs ended in a 2-2 draw on Saturday. Nippon fought back well from 2 goals down, and neither side could complain about the end result of an even game.

STATS

Yellow Cards
  • Patrick Sheriff
  • Mark Hadlow
  • Phil Froncioni
  • Warren Rixon
  • Daisuke NANAI
  • Fumiaki OGURO
  • Ryuhei IKEDA
  • Hiroyuki UCHIDA
Double Yellow Cards
Red Cards
  • Warren Rixon
Scoring
  • Ali Roseburgh
  • Jack Skinner
  • Tetsu KAKIMOTO
  • Seiji TACHIBANA
Assists
  • Guy Turton
  • Patrick Sheriff
  • Hiroyuki UCHIDA
  • Yuki SUGIMOTO
Man Of the Match
  • Phil Froncioni
  • -
Man Of the Match (opponent)
  • -
  • -
FC Nippon

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FC NIPPON spirit

FC Nippon won the game against Hibernians FC 4-1 last week. Today, FC Nippon had a game against Hotsupurs FC at Cage Sports Field. The game realized FC Nippon that easy games are nothing in Cosmo League. Starting members: GK: Nakamura DF: Hasegawa, Nanai, Kabayama, Yamamoto MF: Kakimoto, Tachibana, Sugimoto,Miyashita FW: Uchida, Suehiro First Half) FC Nippon was outnumbered in the midfield. The formation of the opponent was a striker and five midfielders while FC Nippon had only four midfielders. Unmarked midfielders of the opponent flicked the ball to the side and the back of FC Nippon. Eventually FC Nippon was made a goal. While FC Nippon was upset due to the goal, the opponent got an additional goal after 3 minutes. FC Nippon became dominant in the game gradually. But backline of the opponent was in the low position so FC Nippon couldn’t the space of the back by making Uchida run. At the 25 mins, Miyashita left the field, instead Ikeda joined. After his joining, he created the rhythms by touching the ball many time and finding the short pass. Though there were a few chances to get a goal, Tachibana found a goal. The first half was over 1-2. Second Half) The game was proceeded with FC Nippon’s pace. But FC Nippon couldn’t find ideas to ways to make efforts yet due to the low position of the opponent. Fortunately, Kakimoto found the loose ball and found the equalizer. Then, Oguro, Okamoto, Fuijta, Horiuchi came on as a substitute so that FC Nippon could come from behind. However Nippon could break down a disciplined defence, eventually. Time was up with 2-2 scores. FC Nippon became aware of it’s low attacking valuations to the opponent, which has low positions of defenses.

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