Kawasaki 11 - 0 reonarudo (386938262)

It had rained all day, but 26399 hardy fans still made it out to The New Cage. Silvano De Lucia was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Thomas Vestermar and Jan Purnell. A 4-4-2 alignment was the formation of choice for Kawasaki. The following players took the field: 岡田 (Okada) - Lee, 渡辺 (Watanabe), 片山 (Katayama), Dynarski - Verhaagen, Frei, Brøgger Andersen, Blondet - Erdélyi, Mercier.

reonarudo had chosen a strategic 4-4-2 formation. Lineup: 根本 (Nemoto) - 田辺 (Tanabe), 中島 (Nakajima), 大森 (Omori), 佐藤 (Sato) - 佐々木 (Sasaki), 小西 (Konishi), 川崎 (Kawasaki), 有田 (Arita) - 荻野 (Ogino), 角田 (Tsunoda).

T. Mercier was uncomfortable with the soggy pitch as he couldn't move the ball around with his usual grace. They were singing the praises of E. Verhaagen 13 minutes into the match after his speculative chip from the middle of the penalty box found its way over the visitors' keeper to make the score 1 - 0 to Kawasaki. A. Brøgger Andersen increased the lead for Kawasaki to 2 - 0, getting a head onto a hooked ball from the right. The ball looked to have taken a deflection on the way in, but he's claiming it! Kawasaki's J. Frei struck his penalty well enough to beat the goalkeeper and extend the home team's lead to 3 - 0 after 37 minutes. J. Frei increased Kawasaki's lead to 4 - 0 with a penalty spot cannonball. By now, the players in Kawasaki felt that victory was guaranteed and began to play it safe, focusing on defence and not risking too much going forward. One of many good crosses from E. Verhaagen on the wing was received and skillfully taken care of by Á. Erdélyi, who scored for Kawasaki. 5 - 0 With 43 minutes played, Kawasaki put themselves up 6 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to T. Mercier, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, 拓. 佐藤 (Sato) got himself booked. The manager of reonarudo was not happy. 6 - 0 was the score after the first half. Possession in this half belonged to Kawasaki, who controlled the ball 73 percent of the time.

Kawasaki solidified their lead at the 62 minute mark, as E. Verhaagen dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 7 - 0. 68 minutes into the match J. Frei put Kawasaki ahead 8 - 0 with a truly marvelous free kick. By then J. Frei had scored three goals - a hat trick! It was a bad day for the usually speedy S. Lee. The mud seemed to slow him down. After 70 minutes, C. Dynarski put Kawasaki ahead 9 - 0 when he rose to head in a cross from the right wing. Things were going to get worse for the visitors. C. Dynarski squirmed through their central defence after 73 minutes, increasing the lead to 10 - 0. Kawasaki put themselves up 11 - 0 when T. Mercier broke through on the right, leaving the entire defence trailing in his wake. Kawasaki claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 75 percent.

一. 渡辺 (Watanabe) performed admirably for Kawasaki. Y. Blondet on the other hand, had a terrible day. Most important reonarudo player was 拓. 佐藤 (Sato). However, 義. 根本 (Nemoto) made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 11 - 0.