vegalta1988 0 - 7 PURE. (371475433)

12000 fans braved the pouring rain at vegalta1988 Arena. Rivo Maarits was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Štěpán Pastyřík and Edward Salewski. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for vegalta1988. Lineup: 浜崎 (Hamasaki) - 中島 (Nakajima), 小林 (Kobayashi), 山田 (Yamada), 酒井 (Sakai) - 山中 (Yamanaka), 吉田 (Yoshida), 宮田 (Miyata), 林 (Hayashi) - 田中 (Tanaka), 小林 (Kobayashi).

PURE. tactics involved an interesting 4-5-1 combination. The following players had been chosen: Curado - Maagaard, Kock, Kwiek, Paczewski - Bayer, Mazo, 渡辺 (Watanabe), 菊池 (Kikuchi), 武藤 (Muto) - Krispl.

Today, PURE.'s strategy involved concentrating on the flanks for their attacks. The terraces were silenced after 13 minutes when PURE.'s 慶. 武藤 (Muto) put the guests ahead 0 - 1, following an attack on the right. Attacking on the wings was the choice for PURE., and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. A defender managed to keep the ball from crossing the goal-line after a curling shot coming in from the right from K. Kwiek after 16 minutes, and prevented PURE. from going up another goal. vegalta1988 mounted an inspired counterattack down the right wing after 17 minutes, but 淳. 中島 (Nakajima) was unable to convert from short range. PURE.'s 諭. 菊池 (Kikuchi) was shown a yellow card after 19 minutes for slicing down an opponent. A drive down the left side allowed J. Paczewski to get in close and score another goal for PURE. after 23 minutes, taking the score to 0 - 2. 24 minutes in, the unpredictable 友. 田中 (Tanaka) of vegalta1988 turned and curled the ball towards goal, but it flew inches wide of the post, almost taking out a member of the crowd! With 28 minutes played, a quick exchange of passes on the left wing freed T. Maagaard of PURE. to slip through the defence and score another goal for the visitors. That made the score 0 - 3. Confident in their lead, PURE.'s players relaxed and focused more on defending the lead than increasing it. It was 0 - 3 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by PURE., with 77 percent of the ball.

The home crowd was not impressed when P. Mazo came in from the right, shooting hard to score after 53 minutes. PURE. were now up 0 - 4. After 54 minutes of game time, 諭. 菊池 (Kikuchi) had an excellent opportunity to add to the visitors' lead, clipping a volley hooked in from the right, but 直. 浜崎 (Hamasaki) was in the right place and tipped the ball over for a corner. The referee showed PURE.'s M. Kock the yellow card after a particularly nasty challenge. K. Kwiek behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 61 minutes as he gave the ball away to 友. 田中 (Tanaka). Lucky for him though, there was no goal. K. Kwiek wanted to play on, but the PURE. coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 70 minutes into the game by I. Campos Ribeiro. The coach of PURE. was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 70 minutes, M. Lanotte came on for J. Paczewski. While defending the PURE. lead, H. Krispl got a new role. 70 minutes in the game, his coach ordered him to change positions with I. Campos Ribeiro. Content with how the game was proceeding, the PURE. coach let R. Repetowski replace M. Kock after 70 minutes. After 72 minutes, L. Bayer sent the corner kick right to 諭. 菊池 (Kikuchi) who headed it sharply past the keeper. 0 - 5! P. Mazo increased the visitors' lead by putting a volley away after a pass from the right. 0 - 6. vegalta1988's 直. 浜崎 (Hamasaki) had to watch the rest of the game from the sidelines, after twisting his ankle with 83 minutes having been played. P. Kim was the replacement. 和. 渡辺 (Watanabe) of PURE. took advantage of a mistake on the home side's right after 85 minutes which increased the away team's lead to 0 - 7. Possession in this half belonged to PURE., who controlled the ball 80 percent of the time.

vegalta1988's top performer was clearly 功. 小林 (Kobayashi). On the other hand, 大. 宮田 (Miyata)'s play was disheartening. The most dominating PURE. player was without a doubt 和. 渡辺 (Watanabe). L. Bayer turned in a dismal performance, however. The match ends 0 - 7.