Matchday 11 2018 Season Review – Omiya Ardija 2-0 Tokyo Verdy
Verdy lost their first game of the J2 2018 Season as they lost 2-0 away to Omiya Ardija, every team in the league has at least lost one game, although it took Verdy till Matchday 11 to lose their first game, to the game itself, it was a good first chance for Verdy when a ball up field by Naoya Tamura found its way to Kota Watanabe and he backed healed it to Douglas Vieira – his shot was saved by Takashi Kasahara in the Omiya goal to go out for a corner, it was a great chance for Omiya – a quick free kick – a cross into the box from Akinari Kazazura found Genki Omae who shot towards goal and it was saved by Naoto Kamifukumoto in the Verdy goal and then the follow up chance from Shintaro Shimada was saved again by Kamifukumoto, Verdy had another good chance after a cross from the right hand side by Vieira – the cross found the head of Ryohei Hayashi who headed it towards goal but Kasahara saved it to keep it at 0-0, into the second half, it was Omiya who took the lead in the 49th minute when a through ball by Shintaro Shimada found Striker Robin Simovic and he went around Kamifukumoto and put it into the back of the empty net to make it 1-0 to Omiya, near the end of the game, it was the substitute Mateus who got the second goal, Mateus got the ball in midfield and he ran through the Verdy defence and he got into the box and put the ball past Kamifukumoto to make it 2-0. Shame to lose the unbeaten run but oh well, well done to Omiya.
NACK5 Stadium Omiya, Attendance – 9,927
Tokyo Verdy Team – Kamifukumoto, Tamura, Ibayashi, Hatanaka, Taira, Uchida, Inoue, Watanabe, R Hayashi, Narawa, Vieira
Tokyo Verdy Subs – Shibasaki, Wakasa, Sato, Kajikawa, Takai, Fujimoto, Pinheiro
Omiya Ardija Team – Kasahara, Sakai, Kikuchi, Komoto, Kawazura, Shimada, Oyama, Mikado, Okunuki, Simovic, Omae
Omiya Ardija Subs – Shiota, Yamakoshi, Mateus, Yokotani, Barada, Toscano, Tomiyama
Match Highlights – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCB-8cu8rhM
Match Statistics and Info
49’ GOAL – Omiya – Number 9 – Robin Simovic
58’ – Sub – Verdy – Ryohei Hayashi Off, Alan Pinheiro On
62’ – Sub – Verdy – Tomohiro Taira Off, Kanya Fujimoto On
64’ – Sub – Omiya – Kanji Okunuki Off, Mateus On
73’ – Yellow Card – Verdy – Yuta Narawa
75’ – Sub – Verdy – Alan Pinheiro Off, Kazuma Takai On
84’ – Sub – Omiya – Robin Simovic Off, Takamitsu Tomiyama On
89’ GOAL – Omiya – Number 16 – Mateus
90’ – Sub – Omiya – Keisuke Oyama Off, Akimi Barada On
Shots – Omiya 10 – Tokyo Verdy 8
FK – Omiya 10 – Tokyo Verdy 16
CK – Omiya 5 – Tokyo Verdy 5
PK – Omiya 0 – Tokyo Verdy 0
Cards – Omiya 0/0 – Tokyo Verdy 1/0
Matchday 11 Results –
Saturday, 28th April
Montedio Yamagata 0-1 Tochigi SC
Mito Hollyhock 1-2 Kyoto Sanga
Yokohama FC 1-0 Tokushima Vortis
Kamatamare Sanuki 1-1 Avispa Fukuoka
Oita Trinita 4-3 Machida Zelvia
FC Gifu 0-1 Zweigen Kanazawa
Renofa Yamaguchi 1-2 Albirex Niigata
Omiya Ardija 2-0 Tokyo Verdy
Ehime FC 1-1 Matsumoto Yamaga
Ventforet Kofu 1-1 JEF United Chiba
Fagiano Okayama 3-1 Roasso Kumamoto
Next Game for Tokyo Verdy – Thursday, 3rd May – Home v Machida Zelvia, 2pm
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