For The 2020 Season – Things Are Changing

Hello Verdy and JLeague Fans –

After careful thought, I’ve decided to stop with the Matchday Preview/Reviews on this blog but i’m not going to stop doing other things on here though – like the Verdy/Beleza Fixtures or the players etc so that wont stop but the probably only preview i’ll probably do is for the great JSoccer Magazine (only if Alan wants me to) before the season starts

As i say it’s been running around my head if i wanted to continue the Previews/Reviews for a few months now and i’ve decided on not to continue doing them for the 2020 Season

Matchday 42 2019 Season Review – Tokyo Verdy 5-1 FC Gifu

Matchday 42 2019 Season Review – Tokyo Verdy 5-1 FC Gifu

Verdy got themselves a 5-1 win on the last game of the 2019 Season over already relegated FC Gifu and it was Junki Koike who got himself another hat-trick and it was his second hat-trick of the season with 3 goals against FC Ryukyu in Matchday 36 and now 3 goals against FC Gifu in Matchday 42, so it’s the end of the season and Verdy finished 13th place in the J2 Table, 14 wins – 13 Draws and 15 losses with a goal difference of 0 (Scored 59 and Conceded 59), to the game itself, it was Gifu who got the game underway of the last game of trhe season, the first chance of the game came on the 38th minute when Verdy scored the first goal of the game when a through pass by Ryota Kajikawa found Junki Koike in aces of space and ran towards the Gifu goal and Koike shot went through Victor’s legs in the Gifu goal which made it 1-0 to the home side, then Verdy scored 2 goals in the space of a couple of minutes, Koike scored his second goal of the game when some passing play eventually passed into the box by Jailton Paraiba which found Kajikawa but he left it and the ball found Koike again in space and he curled his shot pass Victor to make it 2-0 to Verdy, then into injury time it was Paraiba who was causing Gifu problems at the back, he passed it to Leandro made it 3-0 by putting the ball past Victor to make the half time score 3-0, into the second half and it wasn’t till the 74th minute of the game that Verdy made it 4-0 after some lovely football by Paraiba to cross it into the box for Koike to put it into the back of the net to make to Verdy 4-0 and Koike’s hat-trick, Parabia was causing all sorts of problems for Gifu and he got himself on scoresheet – fully deserved as well for all his work in this game – Paraiba got himself just inside of the box and shot and went past a standing Victor – 5-0 for Verdy, the only time Verdy has scored 5 this season, you guessed it when Koike got himself a hat-trick against FC Ryukyu, but the scoring didn’t finish though and Gifu got themselves on the score sheet 2 minutes after Verdy scored their 5th when a cross from Kenji Baba found the head of Koki Tsukagawa, Naoto Kamifukumoto was caught out and Tsukagawa bullet headed the ball into the back to the net to make it 5-1, after 3 minutes of injury time the ref blew for the full time whistle for the final time of the 2019 J2 Season for Tokyo Verdy.

Ajinomoto Stadium, Attendance – 6,559

Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Klebinho, Tamura, Taira, Narwa, Kajikawa, Fujita, Morita, Koike, Leandro, Paraiba

Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Nagata, Kondo, Arai, Ishiura, Inoue, Sato

FC Gifu Team – Victor, Kai, Toma, Abe, Fujitani, Frederic, Mishima, Yanagisawa, Murata, Baba, Kawanishi

FC Gifu Subs – Harada, Takeda, Yokoyama, Tsukagawa, De Vries, Maeda, Nakashima

Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4UEXyCDRo

Match Statistics and Info
38’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 19 – Junki Koike
44’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 19 – Junki Koike
45’ +1’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 10 – Leandro
52’ – Sub – Gifu – Shota Kawanishi Off, Ryoichi Maeda On
52’ – Sub – Gifu – Ko Yanagisawa Off, Koki Tsukagawa On
62’ – Sub – Verdy – Klebinho Off, Yuhei Sato On
73’ – Sub – Gifu – Takumi Fujitani Off, Kensei Nakashima On
74’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 19 – Junki Koike
75’ – Sub – Verdy – Ryota Kajikawa Off, Shion Inoue On
84’ – Sub – Verdy – Leandro Off, Taiga Ishiura On
86’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 11 – Jailton Parabia
88’ GOAL – Gifu – Number 38 – Koki Tsukagawa

Shots – Tokyo Verdy 15 – Gifu 6
FK – Tokyo Verdy 7 – Gifu 8
CK – Tokyo Verdy 6 – Gifu 6
PK – Tokyo Verdy 0 – Gifu 0
Cards – Tokyo Verdy 0/0 – Gifu 0/0

Matchday 42 Results –

Sunday, 24th November
Montedio Yamagata 1-2 FC Machida Zelvia
Mito Hollyhock 1-0 Fagiano Okayama
JEF United Chiba v Tochigi SC
Kashiwa Reysol 13-1 Kyoto Sanga
Tokyo Verdy 5-1 FC Gifu
Yokohama FC 2-0 Ehime FC
Ventforet Kofu 2-0 FC Ryukyu
Albirex Niigata 2-1 V-Varen Nagasaki
Zweigen Kanazawa 1-1 Omiya Ardija
Tokushima Vortis 3-0 Renofa Yamaguchi
Avispa Fukuoka 2-1 Kagoshima United

Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – 2020 Pre Season

Matchday 42 2019 Season Preview – Tokyo Verdy v FC Gifu

Matchday 42 2019 Season Preview – Tokyo Verdy v FC Gifu

Verdy’s 43rd and final game of the 2019 season is at Home to FC Gifu at Ajinomoto Stadium. It’s the final game of the J2 2019 Season and it’s a pretty much a nothing game with Verdy not been able to get a playoff spot after the last few matches now and FC Gifu getting relegated to J3 so they hopefully will want to end their season in J2 with a win over Verdy but hopefully Verdy can finish on a high, it was a loss each for Gifu and Verdy, Verdy lost 2-1 to playoff chasing Tokushima Vortis while Gifu lost to Ventforet Kofu (see Look At Our Opponents below) which relegated them although it depends on who comes up from J3 but it seems like one team will come up from J3 – either Giravanz Kitakyushu, Thespa Kusatsu Gunma and Roasso Kumamoto who use to be in J2 the past few seasons before being relegated and wanting to come back up and with only a few games to go in both J1 and J3 it’s going to be interesting to see who will come down and come up, but I would like to wish FC Gifu all the best for next season, very sad to see a good club like that get relegated, but to this last game of the 2019 season, back in Matchday 20 (30/6/19) when Verdy won 2-1 at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium when Shion Inoue (45’) and Leandro (90’) scored for Verdy and Yamagishi (29’) scored for Gifu, let’s hope for a good final game of the season and fingers crossed for something from this game. LET’S FIGHT TOWARDS VICTORY.

Last Game –
Tokyo Verdy’s XI
v Vortis (Sun 16th Nov)
Kamifukumoto

Narawa-Kondo-Taira-Yamamoto

Klebinho-Kajikawa-Mortia

Paraiba-Leandro-Koike

Bench – Shibasaki, Arai, Tamura, Fujita, Inoue, T Uchida, Sato

Subs – Leandro Off, Yuhei Sato On (57’) – Klebinho Off, Joeru Chima Fujita On (76’) – Yuta Narawa Off, Mizuki Arai On (89’)

Last 5 Results – Tokyo Verdy and FC Gifu (League – This Season)

Tokyo Verdy – W L L D L
FC Gifu – D L L L L

Look At Our Opponents –
Let’s have a look at FC Gifu’s last game in the League at Home to Ventforet Kofu at Nagaragawa Stadium. It wasn’t a good end for FC Gifu’s last home game of the 2019 Season when they lost 3-1 to Ventforet Kofu, all 4 goals came in the second half, it was Ventforet Kofu who scored first in the game when Peter Utaka scored on the 56th minute but Gifu got back into the game on the 64th minute when Shota Kawanishi equalised but it didn’t last long when Peter Utaka scored his second goal and Kofu’s second goal as well when he scored on the 67th minute but Gifu went further behind on the 78th minute when Hidetaka Kanazono put FC Gifu into J3 next season and kept Kofu in playoff contention.

(4-4-2 Formation)
GK – Victor
DF – Kai
DF – Toma
DF – Abe
DF – Yanagisawa
MF – Frederic
MF – Mishima
MF – De Vries
MF – Murata (Off, 73’)
FW – Baba (Off, 56’)
FW – Kawanishi

Subs
GK – Harada
DF – Fujitani
DF – Takeda
DF – Yokoyama
MF – Tsukagawa
FW – Nakashima (On, 56’)
FW – Michael (On, 73’)

Data – For FC Gifu v Ventforet Kofu (Home)
Shots – 12
Free Kicks – 8
Corner Kicks – 6
Penalties – 0
Cards – 0 Yellow/0 Red

Top Goalscorer – Shota Kawanishi – 8 Goals (From 21 Games)

Here are the Matchday 42 Fixtures of the 2019 Season –

Sunday, 24th November
Montedio Yamagata v FC Machida Zelvia
Mito Hollyhock v Fagiano Okayama
JEF United Chiba v Tochigi SC
Kashiwa Reysol v Kyoto Sanga
Tokyo Verdy v FC Gifu
Yokohama FC v Ehime FC
Ventforet Kofu v FC Ryukyu
Albirex Niigata v V-Varen Nagasaki
Zweigen Kanazawa v Omiya Ardija
Tokushima Vortis v Renofa Yamaguchi
Avispa Fukuoka v Kagoshima United

The main games to look out for it as it’s going to affect Playoff/Automatic Promotion –
Mito Hollyhock v Fagiano Okayama
Kashiwa Reysol v Kyoto Sanga
Yokohama FC v Ehime FC
Ventforet Kofu v FC Ryukyu
Zweigen Kanazawa v Omiya Ardija

Come on Verdy!

Matchday 41 2019 Season Review – Tokyo Verdy 1-2 Tokushima Vortis

Matchday 41 2019 Season Review – Tokyo Verdy 1-2 Tokushima Vortis

Verdy finished one of their final home games with a 2-1 defeat to playoff team Tokushima Vortis, it was Vortis who scored 2 minutes before half time and then scored 2 minutes into the second half thanks to Ryuji Sugimoto (43’) and Atsushi Kawata (47’) but with 20 minutes to go, Junki Koike (70’) scored Verdy’s goal, to the game itself, it was Verdy who kicked off the first half, the first chance of the game was to the away side in Vortis when Atsushi Kawata shot but he put his shot well over the bar, but it wasn’t long after that chance that Vortis took the lead when some passing play from Vortis eventually found Ryuji Sugimoto who shot from outside the box and even though Naoto Kamifukumoto got a touch of the ball – it went into the back of the net to make it 1-0 to the away side, just before the end of the first half, Verdy had a good chance when Klebinho got a pass from Jailton Paraiba and Klebinho had a shot just wide of the post and Verdy had the last chance of the first half after a long shot by Ryota Kajikawa was palmed away by Yuji Kajikawa, now into the second half, it was the away side who went 2-0 up when a cross in from Taiki Tamukai found Atsushi Kawata on the edge of the box and his shot bounced off the post and went into the back of the net to make it 2-0 to Vortis, it was a corner for Verdy – it was deflected back to Rihito Yamamoto who took the original corner, he crossed the ball back into the box and found Junki Koike unmarked and his shot went into the back of the net to reduce the score to make it 2-1, Vortis had a good chance but that went wide of the goal with 15 minutes to go and after 4 minutes of injury time the ref blew the final whistle and it was a loss for Verdy but a big result for Vortis.

Ajinomoto Stadium, Attendance – 7,770

Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Narwa, Kondo, Taira, Yamamoto, Klebinho, Kajikawa, Morita, Paraiba, Leandro, Koike

Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Arai, Tamura, Fujita, Inoue, T Uchida, Sato

Tokushima Vortis Team – Kajikawa, Tamukai, Ishii, Buijs, Y Uchida, Iwao, Suzuki, Sugimoto, Watai, Nomura, Kawata

Tokushima Vortis Subs – Hasegawa, K Uchida, Kano, Kiyotake, Omotehara, Fujita, Oshitani

Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPrzLvfHIQ

Match Statistics and Info
32’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Leandro
43’ GOAL – Vortis – Number 14 – Ryuji Sugimoto
47’ GOAL – Vortis – Number 9 – Atsushi Kawata
50’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Rihito Yamamoto
57’ – Sub – Verdy – Leandro Off, Yuhei Sato On
57’ – Yellow Card – Vortis – Jordy Buijs
70’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 19 – Junki Koike
76’ – Sub – Verdy – Klebinho Off, Joeru Chima Fujita On
80’ – Sub – Vortis – Atsushi Kawata Off, Yuki Oshitani On
89’ – Sub – Verdy – Yuta Narawa Off, Mizuki Arai On
89’ – Sub – Vortis – Ryuji Sugimoto Off, Kohei Uchida On
90’ +2’ – Sub – Vortis – Taiki Tamukai Off, Seiya Fujita On

Shots – Tokyo Verdy 11 – Vortis 6
FK – Tokyo Verdy 10 – Vortis 10
CK – Tokyo Verdy 4 – Vortis 2
PK – Tokyo Verdy 0 – Vortis 0
Cards – Tokyo Verdy 2/0 – Vortis 1/0

Matchday 41 Results –

Saturday, 16th November
Renofa Yamaguchi 2-3 Montedio Yamagata
Avispa Fukuoka 0-2 Zweigen Kanazawa
Omiya Ardija 1-1 Albirex Niigata
FC Machida Zelvia 0-3 Kashiwa Reysol
FC Gifu 1-3 Ventforet Kofu
Kyoto Sanga 1-0 JEF United Chiba
Fagiano Okayama 0-1 Yokohama FC
Ehime FC 1-2 FC Ryukyu
V-Varen Nagasaki 0-1 Tochigi SC
Tokyo Verdy 1-2 Tokushima Vortis
Kagoshima United 1-0 Mito Hollyhock

Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – Sunday, 24th November – Home v FC Gifu, 2pm

Matchday 41 2019 Season Preview – Tokyo Verdy v Tokushima Vortis

Matchday 41 2019 Season Preview – Tokyo Verdy v Tokushima Vortis

Verdy’s 42nd game of the 2019 season is at Home to Tokushima Vortis at Ajinomoto Stadium. It’s the final games of the season and the final 2 games are at Ajinomoto Stadium with Tokushima Vortis this weekend and FC Gifu next weekend, but first up it’s the playoff chasing Tokushima Vortis – it’s a fight between 4th place to 9th place between Yamagata, Mito, Vortis, Kofu, Kyoto and Okayama, which is only 2 points in it (Okayama are on 65 points in 9th and Yamagata are on 67 points and in 4th), so Verdy do have a say in who gets into the playoff’s with the game this weekend, it was a draw for Verdy with a 0-0 draw against JEF United Chiba and Vortis lost to Yokohama FC (see Look At Our Opponents below) and dropped down 1 place to 6th but are currently still in that final playoff spot and with Verdy drawing they wont finish anywhere below 14th place in the table, the last time Verdy and Vortis played each other all the way back in Matchday 5 and it was a 1-1 draw at Pocari Sweat Stadium – it was a goal from Yong Jick Lee who scored a 90th minute equaliser after Takeru Kishimoto scored for Vortis on the 54th minute so the points were shared, let’s hope for a good end to the season, fingers crossed. LET’S FIGHT TOWARDS VICTORY.

Last Game –
Tokyo Verdy’s XI
v Chiba (Sun 10th Nov)
Kamifukumoto

Narawa-Wakasa-Taira-Yamamoto

Sato-Kajikawa-Mortia

Koike-Leandro-Paraiba

Bench – Shibasaki, Lee, Nagata, Kondo, Arai, Tamura, Kang

Subs – Junki Koike Off, Mizuki Arai On (84’) – Leandro Off, Yong Jick Lee On (89’)

Last 5 Results – Tokyo Verdy and Tokushima Vortis (League – This Season)

Tokyo Verdy – W W L L D
Tokushima Vortis – W W W W L

Look At Our Opponents –
Let’s have a look at Tokushima Vortis’s last game in the League at Home to Yokohama FC at Pocari Sweat Stadium. It was a 1-0 win for the away side Yokohama FC even if Tokushima Vortis was on such a good run, it wasn’t till about 15 minutes to go that Yokohama FC scored the only goal of the game when Eijiro Takeda scored and it gave Yokohama FC the 3 points.

(3-5-2 Formation)
GK – Kajikawa
DF – Ishii
DF – Jordy Bijijs
DF – Y Uchida
MF – Iwao
MF – Konishi (Off, 82’)
MF – Nomura
MF – Sugimoto
MF – Kishimoto (Off, 29’)
FW – Watai
FW – Kawata (Off, 74’)

Subs
GK – Hasegawa
DF – K Uchida (On, 82’)
MF – Kano
MF – Kiyotake (On, 74’)
MF – Omotehara
MF – Fujita (On, 29’)
FW – Oshitani

Data – For Tokushima Vortis v Yokohama FC (Home)
Shots – 10
Free Kicks – 16
Corner Kicks – 5
Penalties – 0
Cards – 1 Yellow/0 Red – Ken Iwao

Top Goalscorer – Atsushi Kawata – 10 Goals (From 28 Games)

Here are the Matchday 41 Fixtures of the 2019 Season –

Saturday, 16th November
Renofa Yamaguchi v Montedio Yamagata
Avispa Fukuoka v Zweigen Kanazawa
Omiya Ardija v Albirex Niigata
FC Machida Zelvia v Kashiwa Reysol
FC Gifu v Ventforet Kofu
Kyoto Sanga v JEF United Chiba
Fagiano Okayama v Yokohama FC
Ehime FC v FC Ryukyu
V-Varen Nagasaki v Tochigi SC
Tokyo Verdy v Tokushima Vortis
Kagoshima United v Mito Hollyhock

Come on Verdy!

Matchday 40 2019 Season Review – JEF United Chiba 0-0 Tokyo Verdy

Matchday 40 2019 Season Review – JEF United Chiba 0-0 Tokyo Verdy

Verdy finished off their triple away games with a 0-0 draw away to JEF United Chiba and Verdy claimed a point and only have 2 home games left to go now to end the season, to the game itself, it was Verdy who got the game underway, it was Chiba with the first chance, after a Chiba player got the ball off a Verdy player then the ball was passed to Kleber and then he ran towards the box and Naoto Kamifukumoto came out and made Kleber go around him but Kleber blasted his chance over the bar in the 5th minute of the game, 5 minutes later Chiba were on the attack again when Kleber got the ball down and played the ball to former Verdy player Alan Pinheiro and he shot from inside the box but Kamifukumoto saved it and pushed it away from the goal and so Verdy could clear the ball away, into injury time in the first half when Chiba were on the attack again when Kamifukumoto punched a cross out but first half sub Yuki Horigome had a shot towards goal but Masashi Wakasa cleared it off the line, still into injury time in the first half when it was a free kick for Verdy when the ball came into the box and the ball found the head of Tomohiro Taira and he headed the ball off the back of his head and it went wide of the goal, so close for Verdy, now into the second half, Chiba get the game underway, it was Chiba back on the attack again when Kleber who was supporting a bandage passed to Yuki Horigome and his shot was saved by Kamifukumoto, onto another chance for Chiba, but it hit the side netting after a cross inside the box, into 4 minutes of injury time and the ref blew the full time whistle to share the point in a 0-0 draw.

Fukuda Denshi Arena Stadium, Attendance – 10,240

Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Narwa, Wakasa, Taira, Yamamoto, Yuhei Sato, Kajikawa, Morita, Koike, Leandro, Paraiba

Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Lee, Nagata, Kondo, M Arai, Tamura, Kang

JEF United Chiba Team – Yuya Sato, Yonekura, I Arai, Hebert, Shimohira, Kumagai, Kudo, Pinheiro, Funayama, Tameda, Kleber

JEF United Chiba Subs – Suzuki, Geria, Masushima, Yasuda, Yuto Sato, Horigome, H Sato

Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNI_Q51OTsg

Match Statistics and Info
27’ – Yellow Card – Chiba – Andrew Kumagai
40’ – Sub – Chiba – Alan Pinheiro Off, Yuki Horigome On
75’ – Sub – Chiba – Kohei Kudo Off, Yuto Sato On
84’ – Sub – Verdy – Junki Koike Off, Mizuki Arai On
89’ – Sub – Verdy – Leandro Off, Yong Jick Lee On
90’ +3’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Tomohiro Taira

Shots – Chiba 15 – Tokyo Verdy 9
FK – Chiba 7 – Tokyo Verdy 15
CK – Chiba 11 – Tokyo Verdy 5
PK – Chiba 0 – Tokyo Verdy 0
Cards – Chiba 1/0 – Tokyo Verdy 1/0

Matchday 40 Results –

Saturday, 9th November
Albirex Niigata 2-0 FC Gifu
Kashiwa Reysol 3-0 Kagoshima United

Sunday, 10th November
Montedio Yamagata 1-3 V-Varen Nagasaki
Mito Hollyhock 2-0 Ehime FC
Tochigi SC 0-0 Omiya Ardija
FC Machida Zelvia 1-0 Renofa Yamaguchi
Ventforet Kofu 2-0 Avispa Fukuoka
Zweigen Kanazawa 1-1 Faginao Okayama
Tokushima Vortis 0-1 Yokohama FC
JEF United Chiba 0-0 Tokyo Verdy
FC Ryukyu 0-3 Kyoto Sanga

Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – Saturday, 16th November – Home v Tokushima Vortis, 3pm

Matchday 40 2019 Season Preview – JEF United Chiba v Tokyo Verdy

Matchday 40 2019 Season Preview – JEF United Chiba v Tokyo Verdy

Verdy’s 41st game of the 2019 season is Away to JEF United Chiba at Fukuda Denshi Arena Stadium. Well it’s the last away game in the triple header, but it’s almost like a home game for Verdy where they travel a hour away to Fukuda Denshi Arena and this is the last away game before the last 2 games of the season are at Ajinomoto Stadium, it was a tale of 2 games with Verdy losing 2-0 to Avispa Fukuoka and in Chiba, Chiba won 2-1 against Zweigen Kanazawa (see Look At Our Opponents below) so Verdy are still 13th place with 51 points and Chiba are currently in 17th with 42 points, with 2 games left against Vortis and Gifu, hopefully Verdy can end the season on a high note, the last time Chiba and Verdy played each other back in Matchday 15 and it finished 1-1, it was Funayama who scored early on in the game (11’) but it was Hiroki Kawano who scored the equaliser on the 62nd minute shared the point between them, let’s hope Verdy can get something from this game. LET’S FIGHT TOWARDS VICTORY.

Last Game –
Tokyo Verdy’s XI
v Avispa (Sat 2nd Nov)
Kamifukumoto

Klebinho-Wakasa-Kondo-Narawa

Kajikawa-Sato-Mortia

Paraiba-Leandro-Koike

Bench – Shibasaki, Lee, Taira, Arai, Sawai, Yamamoto, Kawano

Subs – Yuta Narawa Off, Rihito Yamamoto On (60’) – Jailton Paraiba Off, Hiroki Kawano On (66’) – Klebinho Off, Naoto Sawai On (82’)

Last 5 Results – Tokyo Verdy and JEF United Chiba (League – This Season)

Tokyo Verdy – L W W L L
JEF United Chiba – L W L L W

Look At Our Opponents –
Let’s have a look at JEF United Chiba’s last game in the League at Home to Zweigen Kanazawa at Fukuda Denshi Arena Stadium. It was a 2-1 win for Chiba at home against Kanazawa when a goal 23 minutes from time sealed the win, the goals started on the 22nd minute when former Verdy player Alan Pinheiro scored but then 8 minutes later Kanazawa got back into the game when Taiki Kato scored to make it 1-1 with 15 minutes of the first half to go, but Chiba scored the winner on the 67th minute thanks to Takayuki Funayama to claim the 3 points.

(4-3-3 Formation)
GK – Sato
DF – Yonekura
DF – Arai
DF – Hebert
DF – Shimohira
MF – Kumaagi
MF – Kudo (Off, 90’ +4’)
MF – Pinheiro (Off, 78’)
FW – Funayama (Off, 87’)
FW – Tameda
FW – Kleber

Subs
GK – Suzuki
DF – Geria (On, 78’)
DF – Yasuda
DF – Masushima
MF – Yada (On, 90’ +4’)
MF – Horigome (On, 87’)
FW – H Sato

Data – For JEF United Chiba v Zweigen Kanazawa (Home)
Shots – 11
Free Kicks – 9
Corner Kicks – 2
Penalties – 0
Cards – 1 Yellow/0 Red – Koki Yonekura (86’)

Top Goalscorer – Kleber – 17 Goals (From 35 Games)

Here are the Matchday 40 Fixtures of the 2019 Season –

Saturday, 9th November
Albirex Niigata v FC Gifu
Kashiwa Reysol v Kagoshima United

Sunday, 10th November
Montedio Yamagata v V-Varen Nagasaki
Mito Hollyhock v Ehime FC
Tochigi SC v Omiya Ardija
FC Machida Zelvia v Renofa Yamaguchi
Ventforet Kofu v Avispa Fukuoka
Zweigen Kanazawa v Faginao Okayama
Tokushima Vortis v Yokohama FC
JEF United Chiba v Tokyo Verdy
FC Ryukyu v Kyoto Sanga

Come on Verdy!

Matchday 39 2019 Season Review – Avispa Fukuoka 2-0 Tokyo Verdy

Matchday 39 2019 Season Review – Avispa Fukuoka 2-0 Tokyo Verdy

Verdy’s second away game out of three went the same as the game couple of weekends ago, it was a loss to Yokohama FC, but this time, Verdy lost 2-0 away to Avispa Fukuoka with both goals early on in each half, to the game itself, it was Verdy who got the game underway and it was in the 9th minute when we first see a chance when a shot from Masaru Kato just outside the D and it was saved by Naoto Kamifukumoto out for a Avispa Fukuoka corner, it was in the 20th minute when Avispa Fukuoka were on the break again Koki Kido had a shot in the box but was saved by Kamifukumoto again, then a corner on the 25th minute, it was the corner which lead to the first goal for Avispa Fukuoka when Yuki Saneto got on the end of the corner and the header went into the back of the net to make it 1-0 to the home side even with Kamifukumoto’s failed attempt to claw the ball out of the back of the net, now into the second half it was Avispa with their second goal 11 minutes in after a ball into the box by Hisashi Jogo and was finished off by Riki Matsuda to double the home sides lead, into the 68th minute now, it was a chance from Hirokazu Ishihara which was easily saved by Kamifukumoto, it was in the 72nd minute when Verdy had a good chance to get into the game when some nice passing play by 2 Verdy players, but it was second half sub Hiroki Kawano, his shot from just outside the box was saved by Serantes at the near post and then a few minutes later when some nice play by Leandro and Rihito Yamamoto and Leandro played in Yamamoto and his chance went over the bar, so close for Verdy but after 6 minutes of injury time the ref blew the full time whistle and it finished 2-0 to the home side.

Level 5 Stadium, Attendance – 5,845

Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Klebinho, Wakasa, Kondo, Narwa, Kajikawa, Sato, Morita, Paraiba, Leandro, Koike

Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Lee, Taira, Arai, Sawai, Yamamoto, Kawano

Avispa Fukuoka Team – Serantes, Saneto, Kikuchi, Shinohara, Ishihara, Suzuki, Kido, Matsuda, Wako, Kato, Jogo

Avispa Fukuoka Subs – Yamanoi, Hatsuse, Won, Tanabe, Maekawa, Morimoto, Yang

Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ylSAgCK5VQ

Match Statistics and Info
8’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Klebinho
25’ GOAL – Avispa – Number 5 – Yuki Saneto
56’ GOAL – Avispa – Number 17 – Riki Matsuda
60’ – Sub – Verdy – Yuta Narawa Off, Rihito Yamamoto On
66’ – Sub – Verdy – Jailton Paraiba Off, Hiroki Kawano On
82’ – Sub – Verdy – Klebinho Off, Naoto Sawai On
82’ – Sub – Avispa – Hisashi Jogo Off, Takayuki Morimoto On
83’ – Sub – Avispa – Koki Kido Off, Sotan Tanabe On
89’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Masashi Wakasa
90’ +1’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Rihito Yamamoto
90’ +3’ – Sub – Avispa – Riki Matsuda Off, Taiga Maekawa On

Shots – Avispa 13 – Tokyo Verdy 8
FK – Avispa 6 – Tokyo Verdy 3
CK – Avispa 7 – Tokyo Verdy 4
PK – Avispa 0 – Tokyo Verdy 0
Cards – Avispa 0/0 – Tokyo Verdy 3/0

Matchday 39 Results –

Saturday, 2nd November
Avispa Fukuoka 2-0 Tokyo Verdy
Omiya Ardija 2-1 Kashiwa Reysol
FC Gifu 0-7 Tokushima Vortis
Mito Hollyhock 3-1 Montedio Yamagata
Kagoshima United 0-0 Fagiano Okayama

Sunday, 3rd November
Tochigi SC 2-1 Albirex Niigata
JEF United Chiba 2-1 Zweigen Kanazawa
Yokohama FC 2-0 V-Varen Nagasaki
Ehime FC 2-0 FC Machida Zelvia
Renofa Yamaguchi 1-2 FC Ryukyu

Monday, 4th November
Kyoto Sanga 0-1 Ventforet Kofu

MD36 Rearranged
Wednesday, 6th November
Omiya Ardija 3-0 Avispa Fukuoka

Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – Sunday, 10th November – Away v JEF United Chiba, 3pm

Matchday 39 2019 Season Preview – Avispa Fukuoka v Tokyo Verdy

Matchday 39 2019 Season Preview – Avispa Fukuoka v Tokyo Verdy

Verdy’s 40th game of the 2019 season is Away to Avispa Fukuoka at Level 5 Stadium. It’s the final 4 games of the 2019 Season and it’s Verdy’s second away game in a triple header where they visit Level 5 Stadium to face Avispa Fukuoka, both teams lost their Matchday 38 game when Verdy and Avispa were both away and both lost, Verdy lost 2-1 to Yokohama while Avispa got stuffed 4-0 away to J2 League Leaders Kashiwa Reysol, Avispa are currently 18th place while Verdy are in 13th place and are 13 points ahead of Avispa, it was back in Matchday 13 where Avispa travelled to Ajinomoto Stadium and Verdy won 3-2 – it was Nemanja Kojic (10’), Junki Koike (45’) and a OG (57’) who scored for Verdy and it was Yang (33’) and Suzuki (62’) scored the 2 goals for Avispa, fingers crossed Verdy can get back to winning ways and hopefully climb the table. LET’S FIGHT TOWARDS VICTORY.

Last Game –
Tokyo Verdy’s XI
v Kofu (Sat 19th Oct)
Kamifukumoto

Sawai- Wakasa-Kondo-Narawa

Klebinho-Kajikawa-Inoue

Paraiba-Morita-Koike

Bench – Shibasaki, Lee, Nagata, Taira, Arai, Kawano, Sato

Subs – Shion Inoue Off, Yuhei Sato On (46’) – Naoto Sawai Off, Yong Jick Lee On (61’) – Yuta Narawa Off, Takuya Nagata On (80’)

Last 5 Results – Tokyo Verdy and Avispa Fukuoka (League – This Season)

Tokyo Verdy – L L W W L
Avispa Fukuoka – D L L W L

Look At Our Opponents –
Let’s have a look at Avispa Fukuoka’s last game in the League Away to Kashiwa Reysol at Sankyo Frontier Stadium. It was a 4-0 defeat for Avispa Fukuoka with 2 goals in each half for the J2 League Leaders, it was in the 25th minute when Kashiwa scored first when Ataru Esaka scored and then 11 minutes later it was 2-0 to Kashiwa when Oluniga scored, then just about 5 minutes into the second half Oluniga scored his second and Kashiwa’s third goal and then Kashiwa finished off the scoring when Matheus Savio on the 69th minute to make the final score 4-0 to the home side.

(3-6-1 Formation)
GK – Serantes
DF – Saneto
DF – Won
DF – Shinohara (Off, 90’ +2’)
MF – Ishihara
MF – Maekawa (Off, 56’)
MF – Mastsuda
MF – Tanabe
MF – Kato
MF – Hatsuse
FW – Jogo (Off, 78’)

Subs
GK – Sugiyama
DF – Wako
DF – Yamada
MF – Suzuki
FW – Kido (On, 90’ +2’)
FW – Morimoto (On, 78’)
FW – Yang (On, 56’)

Data – For Avispa Fukuoka v Kashiwa Reysol (Away)
Shots – 3
Free Kicks – 4
Corner Kicks – 6
Penalties – 0
Cards – 1 Yellow/0 Red – Hirokazu Ishihara

Top Goalscorer – Donghyen Yang – 10 Goals (From 32 Games)

Here are the Matchday 39 Fixtures of the 2019 Season –

Saturday, 2nd November
Avispa Fukuoka v Tokyo Verdy
Omiya Ardija v Kashiwa Reysol
FC Gifu v Tokushima Vortis
Mito Hollyhock v Montedio Yamagata
Kagoshima United v Fagiano Okayama

Sunday, 3rd November
Tochigi SC v Albirex Niigata
JEF United Chiba v Zweigen Kanazawa
Yokohama FC v V-Varen Nagasaki
Ehime FC v FC Machida Zelvia
Renofa Yamaguchi v FC Ryukyu

Monday, 4th November
Kyoto Sanga v Ventforet Kofu

MD36 Rearranged
Wednesday, 6th November
Omiya Ardija v Avispa Fukuoka

Come on Verdy!

Matchday 38 2019 Season Review – Yokohama FC 2-1 Tokyo Verdy

Matchday 38 2019 Season Review – Yokohama FC 2-1 Tokyo Verdy

Verdy’s first away game in triple header was a defeat to Playoff/Promotion Place fighting team in Yokohama FC when Verdy lost 2-1 with Yong Jick Lee scoring the only goal for Verdy and Nakamura scored in the first half and Matsuo scored in the second half for Yokohama, to the game itself, it was Verdy who kicked off the game and the first chance of the game fell to the home side Yokohama FC, it was a pass into the box from Kengo Kitazume to a Yokohama player who held the ball up and then he passed it to Shunsuke Nakamura, the former Marinos player, volleyed the ball from about 30 – what a goal by Nakamura and put Yokohama FC in the lead, now into the second half it was Yokohama who had the chance and they scored from it after a through pass for Yusuke Matsuo but a Verdy defender Naoto Sawai blocked it but the ball and the ball was picked up on the edge of the box by a Yokohama player while Naoto Kamifukumoto tried to get the ball but he was out of his goal when the Yokohama player passed the ball in the box and Matsuo calmly put the ball into the back of the net to make it 2-0 to the home side, but later on Verdy finally got a chance and they scored from this chance when a cross into the box from Yuta Narawa and the cross came in and Yuta Minami though he had the ball but with Jailton Paraiba trying to get the ball as well as Minami he dropped it behind him and it was a tap into the goal for Yong Jick Lee after only just coming on as sub, talk about impact, getting a goal from maybe your first touch of the ball, but Minami was complaing about their being a foul but looking at the replay’s, Paraiba didn’t foul him at all, all he did was try to get the ball and the goal stood to make it 2-1 now, with 20 minutes to go Verdy had a free kick and the ball into the box was headed towards goal by Masashi Wakasa and Minami came out as well but the ball went over the Yokohama GK but the ball hit the crossbar and Minami easily collected it, so close for Verdy but after 5 minutes of injury time, the ref blew the whistle for full time and it was a defeat for Verdy, very unlucky with the free kick but it was the home side who won and picked up the 3 points.

NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Stadium, Attendance – 8,757

Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Sawai, Wakasa, Kondo, Narwa, Klebinho, Kajikawa, Inoue, Paraiba, Morita, Koike

Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Lee, Nagata, Taira, Arai, Kawano, Sato

Yokohama FC Team – Minami, Kitazume, Tashiro, Jong A Pin, Takeda, Nakayama, Matsuo, Nakamura, Sato, Domingues, Minagawa

Yokohama FC Subs – Takeshige, Saito, Matsui, Watanabe, Ibba, Saito, Kusano

Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqwCAeuAjXg

Match Statistics and Info
26’ GOAL – Yokohama – Number 46 – Shunsuke Nakamura
46’ – Sub – Verdy – Shion Inoue Off, Yuhei Sato On
54’ GOAL – Yokohama – Number 37 – Yusuke Matsuo
61’ – Sub – Verdy – Naoto Sawai Off, Yong Jick Lee On
62’ GOAL – Verdy – Number 17 – Yong Jick Lee
67’ – Sub – Yokohama – Leandro Domingues Off, Kosuke Saito On
73’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Klebinho
74’ – Yellow Card – Yokohama – Kosuke Saito
75’ – Sub – Yokohama – Shunsuke Nakamura Off, Daisuke Matsui On
80’ – Sub – Yokohama – Yusuke Minagawa Off, Ibba On
80’ – Sub – Verdy – Yuta Narawa Off, Takuya Nagata On

Shots – Yokohama 7 – Tokyo Verdy 9
FK – Yokohama 17 – Tokyo Verdy 18
CK – Yokohama 2 – Tokyo Verdy 3
PK – Yokohama 0 – Tokyo Verdy 0
Cards – Yokohama 1/0 – Tokyo Verdy 1/0

Matchday 38 Results –

Saturday, 27th October
Montedio Yamagata 3-0 Ehime FC
FC Ryukyu 2-3 Omiya Ardija
Yokohama FC 2-1 Tokyo Verdy
Ventforet Kofu 1-1 Kagoshima United
Albirex Niigata 3-1 Kyoto Sanga
Tokushima Vortis 2-1 Mito Hollyhock
V-Varen Nagasaki 2-4 Zweigen Kanazawa
Kashiwa Reysol 4-0 Avispa Fukuoka
FC Machida Zelvia 0-0 FC Gifu
Renofa Yamaguchi 3-2 JEF United Chiba
Fagiano Okayama 1-0 Tochigi SC

MD23 Rearranged
Wednesday, 30th October
Kagoshima United 1-0 FC Gifu

Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – Sunday, 2nd November – Away v Avispa Fukuoka, 1pm