Goldrake 4 - 0 Metropolitans (386937738)

The crowd of 12000 turning up at Actarus Arena today were greeted with some nasty showers of rain. Martin Fink Jensen was the appointed referee with assistance provided by André Busemann and Zoran Živadinović. Goldrake started off with a 3-5-2 lineup. The following players took the field: 宮川 (Miyagawa) - 須藤 (Sudo), 河野 (Kawano), 加藤 (Kato) - 中村 (Nakamura), 松田 (Matsuda), 水野 (Mizuno), 岡本 (Okamoto), 吉田 (Yoshida) - 大山 (Oyama), 鈴木 (Suzuki).

Metropolitans decided to use a 4-4-2 set up. They fielded: Odaka - Fujii, Koizumi, Kawahama, Takagaki - Konishi, Aoi, Chihara, Fujita - Kubota, Kentaro.

The boggy pitch disrupted the game, especially for technical players like M. Takagaki. Goldrake took the lead after 16 minutes as a result of 武. 中村 (Nakamura)'s peach of a shot from the right hand side of the box - placed beautifully in the top corner. 1 - 0. Goldrake managed to extend their lead to 2 - 0 when 昌. 松田 (Matsuda) cut in neatly from the left side and struck a fine shot past the away team's goalkeeper. After this, you could see that the players of Goldrake were more interested in killing time than scoring more goals. With 30 minutes played, S. Chihara of Metropolitans fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. Good work by the Metropolitans defensive line after 37 minutes produced a good counterattack chance, which cut elegantly down the middle of the pitch and found K. Aoi alone in front of the goal, but his shot whistled just wide. It was 2 - 0 at the break. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by Goldrake, with 64 percent of the ball.

一. 大山 (Oyama) increased Goldrake's lead to 3 - 0 with a penalty spot cannonball. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of Goldrake to 4 - 0 as 俊. 吉田 (Yoshida) finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. Goldrake had most of the ball, with 56 percent of possession.

Goldrake's best player was 一. 大山 (Oyama). 佳. 宮川 (Miyagawa) on the other hand, had a terrible day. T. Konishi performed admirably for Metropolitans. Y. Odaka was a disappointment, however. The match ends 4 - 0.