IHATOVE 8 - 0 Hokkaidoragon (386939948)

Dark skies made the crowd of 30781 at Polano Square a little nervous, but the rain held off. Ion Borcan was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Rafael Ángel Fallas and Albert Sánchez. IHATOVE decided to use a 3-4-3 set up. Starters: Rubio - das Neves, Sauerwinkel, Ariwa - Soacha, van der Looi, Jakab, Štědronský - Bernobi, 榊原 (Sakakibara), Lytras.

Hokkaidoragon tactics involved an interesting 4-4-2 combination. The following players took the field: 小野寺 (Onodera) - 村井 (Murai), 菅原 (Sugahara), 西田 (Nishida), 川島 (Kawashima) - 長田 (Nagata), 沼田 (Numata), 高橋 (Takahashi), 滝沢 (Takizawa) - 原口 (Haraguchi), 岡部 (Okabe).

The wings were the focus of most of IHATOVE's attacks today. IHATOVE broke through on the left 2 minutes into the game, with 悟. 榊原 (Sakakibara) firing in from an acute angle to give the home side a 1 - 0 lead. After several obvious shirt pulling incidents, 武. 西田 (Nishida) got himself booked. The manager of Hokkaidoragon was not happy. IHATOVE increased the lead as D. Bernobi struck to make the score 2 - 0 after an attack from the left left him unmarked in front of the keeper. 隆. 沼田 (Numata) of Hokkaidoragon received a yellow card after 24 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. IHATOVE's L. Soacha was shown a yellow card after 38 minutes for slicing down an opponent. Due to a severely mistimed tackle, 英. 高橋 (Takahashi) of Hokkaidoragon spent some time on the grass writhing in agony before he could get up and continue the game. A speedy charge from the left side of the field increased the lead of IHATOVE to 3 - 0 as Y. Ariwa finished it off competently, firing in from an acute angle. The players of IHATOVE now seemed to think the job was done and acted more defensively, just waiting for the ref to blow the final whistle. IHATOVE solidified their lead at the 43 minute mark, as V. Jakab dribbled the ball through the opposing central defence and scored to make it 4 - 0. IHATOVE's Q. van der Looi got himself booked for a foul. Players in IHATOVE heard their coach's words ringing in their ears and steered their central attacks to the wings instead. Q. van der Looi increased the lead for IHATOVE to 5 - 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! The teams went for the halftime break at 5 - 0. IHATOVE claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 80 percent.

Y. Ariwa unleashed a swerving effort from the right that the visitors' keeper did well to tip wide. Hokkaidoragon almost scored after a swift counterattack 52 minutes into the game, but 英. 高橋 (Takahashi) put the shot from the left flank just outside the goal. The coach of IHATOVE was happy with the game so far, but still wanted to change the line up. After 60 minutes, Y. Kajahara came on for S. Štědronský. With 65 minutes played, IHATOVE put themselves up 6 - 0 when the visiting defenders lost the ball to V. Jakab, who came up from the left and proceeded to coolly round the keeper and knock the ball home. D. Bernobi wanted to play on, but the IHATOVE coach had other ideas, and he was replaced 70 minutes into the game by I. Narahashi. Attacking on the wings was the choice for IHATOVE, and they were successfully passing the ball from the middle to the wings to attack. After 70 minutes, the away team failed to deal with a good exchange of passes on the right, and Y. Kajahara gave the IHATOVE supporters even more to cheer about when he increased the lead to 7 - 0. A. Lytras left the field with a smile on his face as he was substituted 75 minutes into the game, as his team was in the lead. A. Sobota was the replacement. Cheers filled the stadium as L. Soacha broke through the visitors' central defence to put away the ball to increase the lead to 8 - 0 to IHATOVE. Possession in the forty-five minutes was dominated by IHATOVE, with 81 percent of the ball.

The most dominating IHATOVE player was without a doubt I. Narahashi. V. Rubio on the other hand, had a terrible day. Hokkaidoragon's top performer was clearly 武. 西田 (Nishida). However, 聡. 小野寺 (Onodera) made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 8 - 0.