Before the game, I heard the following conversation from Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo fans who came all the way to Kashiwa Reysol’s home ground.
“I want to see a football match where even if three goals are scored today, they will score four and win.”
“I like it, that development is the best!”
Sapporo fans may no longer be satisfied with normal developments.
Takuro Kaneko scored his 8th goal of the season as a football attacking axis
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Since Mihailo Petrovich became the manager in 2018, the style of the manager who “wins by showing offensive charm” has steadily permeated the team, and fans have been coming to the stadium for football from such.
And on this day, Sapporo will perform the best entertainment that far exceeds the expectations of the fans.
From the start of the game, Sapporo increased forward pressure, and when they stole the ball, they quickly penetrated the space on the flanks and went energetically towards the Kashiwa goal.
With Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa in the lead, Yuya Asano and Yoshinari Komai from 2 shadows, and Takuro Kaneko and Lucas Fernandez from both wings rushed into the side space as soon as they became their own balls. Go up and take the ball out.
Make a starting point there and interlock with the number of people. He got into the wider space from the 2nd and 3rd rows and created one chance after another.
In the 10th minute, Takuma Arano scored the first goal early on, and although the score was tied once, Komai scored the winning goal in the 18th minute. In the 31st minute, Kogashiwa pushed in the loose ball from Asano’s sudden shot and showed its offensive power to the maximum, scoring three goals in the first half.
“If the players played really well and all the chances were scored, I think we could have scored seven or eight goals in the first half.”
Sapporo’s attack continued to pose a threat to Kashiwa’s defense, so much so that Petrovic’s words could not be heard too much.
However, at the end of the first half, the score was 3-2, a one point difference. In the second half, Kashiwa switched to five backs, which eliminated space on the flanks, making it impossible to carry out the quick attacks they had in the first half. Moreover, in the 53rd minute, they allowed a goal to equalize due to a mistake.
