KAW 0 - 5 com (386939968)

Dark skies made the crowd of 14454 at Saitama Stadium 2002 a little nervous, but the rain held off. Hans-Toby Spielvogel was the appointed referee with assistance provided by Evert Granneman and Bas Oostwegel. The derby had been the talk of Kanto all week and fans of both teams could be seen throughout the stadium. KAW had chosen a strategic 3-4-2 formation. They fielded: Leiva - Mandika, Dorante, 多田 (Tada) - Šporn, Carvalhão, Darrigrande, Ion - 山口 (Yamaguchi), Soto.

com started off with a 4-4-2 lineup. Starters: Ketzer - Pupo, Batta, Kocjančič, Neirings - Modenini, Chihara, Taboada, 横山 (Yokoyama) - Segura Puertas, Hammer.

com mostly ignored the flanks in favour of their ability to attack in the middle. A free kick aimed at the keeper's far post almost gave com the lead 4 minutes in, but the ball just wasn't able to squirm its way through the defensive wall. 8 minutes into the game, KAW seemed a little tentative in their play as their organization fell to passable. com's D. Hammer gave the visitors a 0 - 1 lead after 13 minutes with a superb strike from the right. 15 minutes into the match, com could have gone up another goal, but A. Batta's penalty kick missed the goal by a mile. With 18 minutes played, A. Batta of com fell dramatically just outside the penalty area. However, the referee was unimpressed, and booked him for diving. The com free kick 26 minutes into the match seemed wasted, as the shot was both short and off target. But was this actually a plan? The ball landed at the feet of 威. 横山 (Yokoyama), who was completely unmarked in the box. That's 0 - 2! At this point, it was obvious that the players of com lowered the tempo and became more defensively oriented. 27 minutes into the game, KAW seemed to suffer a certain amount of confusion and they fell to a inadequate level of organisation. After 30 minutes, there was a bit of a mixup on the field as KAW found themselves out of position and their organisation level dropped to inadequate. 0 - 2 was the halftime score. com claimed to have seen most of the ball, and the statistics agreed with them - possession being 63 percent.

The coach gave his players an extra tactical briefing during the break, and after that KAW had solid organisation. S. Segura Puertas came close to extending the visitors' lead when he found himself completely unmarked in front of the goal after a pass through the middle. He tried to lift the ball over A. Leiva but overcooked it and hit the bar instead. After 56 minutes KAW's S. Darrigrande limped slightly after a late challenge, but he was able to continue. 70 minutes into the game, KAW had difficulty finding their positions and their organisation dropped to passable. com's J. Kocjančič was shown a yellow card for standing over the ball and blocking an opponent's quick free kick after 83 minutes. 勇. 多田 (Tada) of KAW was booked for kicking the ball away after the whistle. 86 minutes into the match, the visitors put themselves ahead 0 - 3 as C. Pupo finished off an attack from the left with a spectacular scissors kick. The opposing supporters gave the referee an earful when he only gave 伸. 山口 (Yamaguchi) from KAW a yellow card after a mistimed challenge from behind 87 minutes into the game. That was far too lenient! J. Taboada of com had to be helped off the pitch as an injury meant he was unable to finish the game. 良. 伊藤 (Ito) came in to finish the match. As the captain was no longer on the pitch, S. Segura Puertas took over the role of being the com captain. C. Pupo behaved like an inexperienced youth player after 89 minutes as he gave the ball away to M. Ion. Lucky for him though, there was no goal. com had a good opportunity to attack on the wing, but remembered their instructions to go for middle attacks. After 89 minutes, an incisive pass through the middle gave D. Modenini a chance to increase the lead for com, and he did not disappoint. The score was then 0 - 4. Some fine movement on the left led to a com goal after 89 minutes, making it 0 - 5. D. Modenini was noted down as the scorer. com had most of the ball, with 70 percent of possession.

The most dominating KAW player was without a doubt 伸. 山口 (Yamaguchi). M. Dorante on the other hand, had a terrible day. com's top performer was clearly S. Segura Puertas. However, D. Modenini made a disastrous appearance. The match ends 0 - 5.