Match Review: Gaulois Sports Club vs FC Nippon

• GK Keion Ing
• DF Oussama Labib
• MD Inaki Moreno
• MD Enrique Sanchez
• MD Juan Jose Varela Navalon
• ST Eric Clermont
• -- Hugo Tauler
• -- Jorge Garcia
• -- Adrien Dambre
• -- Marc Sans
• -- Remi Tache

• GK Christophe Aprile
• -- Bertrand Mametz
• -- Guillaume Jeannerot

A complicated game for OG that nonetheless progress to the semies. From the start Nippon had most of the possession but could not create many chances against a very compact OG block playing low on the field to avoid giving them to much space. OG did not create much until the 20th min when Remi was found on the left and managed to find Kike in the box for a good finish. 1-0 OG. Rest of the half was mainly Nippon having the ball but lacked efficiency in the last past to really cause any threat to Keion in goal. 2nd half was mostly the same except that we had more space to exploit in counter attacks. When we felt we were close to double the lead Nippon scored from a small handling mistake from Keion who had a great game apart from that. 1-1. Their lead did not last long as Kike beautifully converted a free kick to give us the lead again. The third goal came 10min later from a good move on the left flank between Marc Remi and Kike who low crossed the ball on the second post for Hugo to score in the empty net. 3-1 with 20min to go. Nippon came back to 3-2 with 8min to go. They pushed in the dying minute but OG hold firm and managed to seal the win to progress to the next round against Latini.

• Takaki NAKAMURA GK
• Tom Yoshida DF
• Ryuhei IKEDA MD
• Seiji TACHIBANA MD
• Shoya MIYASHITA --
• Wataru HASEGAWA --
• Daisuke NANAI --
• Yuuki OKAMOTO --
• Hiroyuki UCHIDA --
• Tetsu KAKIMOTO --
• Yuki SUGIMOTO --

• Fumiaki OGURO --
• Kan YAMAMOTO --
• Minato HORIUCHI --

Unfortunate loss

The game started with some good opportunities for Nippon but as time went by OG top player dominated the field who at the end finished the game with 3 goals. The difference between the team was not small even though the final scope itself was close. Congrats to all OG players. Let’s see how we response next opportunity with OG....