Official 2014 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Maybe little Asano could be the solution for Postdam?

 

Asano will come in in a second after 70'

 

And result was...?

 

It was impossible to watch Birmingham-Tyresö (unless being in the stadium...). Tyresö dominated the game but BCL was heroic in defense and super-well organized. Great result for the English game !

Turbine-VfL was a great game, full of dedication, rythm, speed, technique and opportunities. Some 0-0 are much better than some 3-3. This one is a good example. The draw is very fair and the second leg is full of high hopes for both teams and... the spectators (saturday 26th, Eurosport, 5.15 european time).

Asano played 20 minutes, she was quite good and delivered an excellent cross from the left for Simic who shot wide.
Best player of the game : Nadine Keßler, who was just... gigantic !

I'll post a link to my article on the SF as soon as it is published on Foot d'Elles. Revise your French in the meantime

 

Oh well, it's already published.... So HERE it is...

 

Saki has just scored a... PK in Soyaux !
That must be the second of her whole life... Can't remember which one was the first.......................
It's a D1 game and Lyon is leading 0-5 after something like 75'.

 

According to FullBloom: "Nakada Maiko made her first appearance today for Belle since September 14th 2008 (a 2-0 win over Niigata)."
And here is the moment itself: By the way, the player she replaced is Miki Asano the former Osaka sub, who in face, body and play looks a lot to me like Nakada, except she is younger and excitingly fast and seemed to add a dimension that Belle didnt have before.
Of course Nakada's first play had to be this tackle on Nakade: Both were fine:

Let me add a comment on Ayu Nakade: she has been ridiculed for her looks, fame, etc, but her substitution almost stole the game for INAC today. When the highlights come out, you will see why. She was a fresk sub OK, but she seems to be a more effective player than TanaYo, possibly equal to Kyokawa and Masuyu (sp?).

 

Sorry, she is also Nakada, and I was a little surprised at her growth as both a player and a woman. She looks very cool now.
Correction: Masuyu - Masuya

I watched Belle's game for the first time this season.
Its DF line (Fushiki, Kado, Hosokawa, Mizushima) may be weak, but the weakness was not so apparant because Inac rarely used long balls behind them.
Belle's high pressure prevented Inac's smooth combination. They have some experienced players at front and midfield.
Taneda might be setting well its limited players.

 

Belle vs Inac highlight:

 

"looks like" indeed. Here is Kyokawa scoring: Well you will also see all this when highlights come out, but it is Takase who has slid the ball past GK Miho. But what led to that is a truly horribly off-side, not called by the umpire: And this is the moment Masuyu (left, at sideline) plays the ball forward - at the extreme right you can see that Takase is a mile offside:

Well by now you can imagine that my happiness is diluted a bit, because as UnePomme says INAC were mostly played off the pitch, and not for the first time v Belle, benefitted from the mistakes of the officials. I dont seem to have permission to share this game, and I will ask my source why, but it was scintillating open play. The goal by Arimachi was utterly brilliant, but dont take my biased word, wait until you see it.

One word about INAC - there was no sign of Sawa, who must have an injury. She seemed to be sorely missed as Belle steamrolled in MF, and only the new DFs (and Junko Kai) kept Belle at bay, who had near misses throughout the game. Still in the end, 3 subs - Nakade, Isokane and that Tokiwagi girl (Miki H?) revised INAC and GK Miho had be produce her best stuff in a long time to keep INAC out in a rather breathtaking last 15 minutes.

All in all though, Belle and Miyama must be disappointed not to have the 3 points; on the other hand, they have such a dynamic team now, even with these rejects and no-name players (at least to me), they look to me as though they can be a top-half team. Their back-line has a few slow and suspect players, (their #17 and 19 in particular), but Kado was brilliant, including missing a couple of goals (headers from CKs and FKs) by literally inches, and the others pressed the INAC FWs and MFs for most of the game so that they couldnt turn around and attack them with speed. Nakano dribbled past INAC into the PK box several times, and Arimachi really should get into the AFC camp. In addition Matsuoka showed that she is more than just a striker, which is an improvement in my eyes, and she was also desperately close (headers inches over, and smashed on shot off the post) - my regret about her is that if she had scored today she would have continued the only "streak" as she had scored in every game so far.

Edit - and of course, UnePomme posts the highlights (what time in the middle of the night is it over there?!) which could have spared this board about half of my long postings... especially seeing as I will never get similar names correct.....

 

Today's games:

Vegalta vs Saitama 13:00
Urawa vs Kibi 13:00
Iga vs Beleza 13:00

Challenge League
Tokiwagi vs Nagano 11:00
Harima vs Shimizu 11:00
Takatsuki vs Bunnys 13:00
Ange Violet vs Cerezo 13:00
Anclas vs Ehime 13:00
Setagaya vs JSCL 13:00
Shizuoka vs JFA 13:00

 

for those who want to watch Nanase Kiryu playing at the moment with Sky Blue against Portland Thorns (with Sinclair and Angerer), it's here :

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I think it's more appropriate to mention Rebecca Moros on Portland side than those two on this thread.

Kiryu's having a better game than last one, it seems.

 

Classic. They've got the count down to the second half.

 

It looks like Kiryu is out. She had a couple of good moments but overall quiet. A bit sorry for her though. Every time she makes a short pass and she obviously wants the ball back but the ball never comes back. I guess, like it or not, she has to realize she's not playing for Beleza...

 

Indeed, Kyokawa's shot hit the post and Takase pushed it over the line.

 

Today's result (1)

Challenge League

Tokiwagi 3-1 Nagano
Shiraki (11) Sugihara (88, 92)
Yokoyama (15)

Harima 1-0 Shimizu
Fujimoto (59)

 

In the meantime...
Sendai 1 (Uetsuji) - Saitama 0
Urawa 3 - Charme 0
Konoichi 1 - Beleza 1

 

Today's result (2)

Challenge League

Takatsuki 5-0 Bunnys
Ange Violet 4-2 Cerezo
Anclas 0-2 Ehime
Setagaya 4-1 JSCL
Shizuoka 1-2 JFA

Kitagawa Hikaru and Okuma Rana scored for JFA.
Okuma seems to have returned to a FW.

 

It was offside, although by half a yard at most. A tenth of a second earlier Takase was still onside. Difficult call.



Two absolute world class saves from Fukumoto shown in those highlights, and Kado is really dangerous. I'm definitely going to watch the full game once it's available on Nadeshiko TV.