hi to everybody, I will vote very soon Lechus7's poll at the moment I just wanna wish y'all Buone Feste! (happy holidays )
Thanks for the video and keeping this open until after Christmas (belated Season's greetings everybody!), finally found some time to watch it. Honestly a lot of the goals were boring to me (scrappy, solos, defensive mistakes, poaching). What I missed the most are movements through the center. Mina Tanaka vs Ghana 1-0 (excellent team zigzag movement through the center) Mina Tanaka vs New Zealand 1-0 (clean buildup, nice goal) Mizuho Sakaguchi vs Australia 1-0 (great eye for choosing a backpass by Yui Hasegawa) Kumi Yokoyama vs China 2-0 (fine use of space, good shot) Kumi Yokoyama vs Australia 1-0 (screamer)
Yesterday's result: University Championship quater final: Teikyo Heisei 4-0 Ottemon Toyo 1-3 Nittaidai Himeji Dokkyo 4-1 Kanagawa Tokuyama 0-1 Waseda
Wow, what and incredible performance! Goal, half-goals, dummies, assists (including back-heel assist in the box)! I want to see such a performance from her in some WWC match next year!
Goal of the year 2018 Standings so far...(#4455) blissett, KAPIJXM, Lechus7, Manchester Nadreshiko, frohike, unepommekun, Grampus, And G, #nadeshikofan, pierre bezukhov, Sirtel, TowerofBabel, datschge 49 points Kumi Yokoyama vs Australia (AFC Cup) 1-0 39 points Yui Hasegawa vs Korea DPR (Asian Games) 2-0 27 points Mizuho Sakaguchi vs Australia (AFC Cup) 1-0 26 points Moeno Sakaguchi vs USA (ToN) 4-2 25 points Mana Iwabuchi vs Netherlands (Algarve Cup) 2-6 8 points Yuika Sugasawa vs China (Asian Games) 1-0 8 points Yuka Momiki vs Norway (Friendly) 4-0 7 points Mana Iwabuchi vs China (AFC Cup) 0-1 7 points Mina Tanaka vs Ghana (Friendly) 1-0 6 points Rika Masuya vs Brazil (ToN) 1-2 6 points Aya Sameshima vs Ghana (Friendly) 7-1 5 points Mina Tanaka vs USA (ToN) 1-1 4 points Mina Tanaka vs New Zealand (Friendly) 1-0 3 points Rika Masuya vs Vietnam (Asian Games) 5-0 2 points Kumi Yokoyama vs China (AFC Cup) 2-0 2 points Kumi Yokoyama vs Norway (Friendly) 1-0 honorable mentions Mana Iwabuchi vs. Norway Emi Nakajima vs. China Mina Tanaka vs. Ghana last week open for votes...
This is it chief, sorry it's taken a while. 1) Kumi Yokoyama vs Australia (AFC Cup Final) 1-0 2) Yui Hasegawa vs Korea DPR (Asian Games) 2-0 3) Yuika Sugasawa vs China (Asian Games Final) 1-0 4)Mizuho Sakaguchi vs Australia (AFC Cup) 1-0 5) Moeno Sakaguchi vs USA (ToN) 4-2
Kyokawa's goal: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1078934330276175872/pu/vid/1280x720/Taui2YxdZsJDUumW.mp4
Great counterattack action! It's a shame that the player from JEF who's lost the ball was one of my favourite, Risa Fukasawa (if I am not wrong). If i read the numbers right, Nakajima took the ball from Fukasawa, then Masuya passed it to the center of the field, where Iwabuchi made that perfect through-pass for Kyokawa. Both Iwabuchi's assist and Kyokawa's shot from a quite wide position looked excellent to me!
Ok, I'm in.. sorry -- better late than never. Happy Holidays to all. 1. Hasegawa Yui vs. DPRK 2. Yokoyama Kumi vs. Australia 3. Iwabuchi Mana vs Holland 4. Yokoyama Kumi vs China 5. Sugasawa Yuika vs Korea Republic There were some good goals vs Ghana, Vietnam, Brazil & Thailand, but the defending/goalkeeping in those cases was too poor to really make them seem worthy. Overall impressions: A. Hasegawa is (still) the bright future of the Nadeshiko B. Mana is still great. C. Nakajima should play as long as she can still run.
Transfer news volume 2: Saito Akane (Nagano - Chifure) Haji Madoka (Mynavi - 水原(S Korea)) Sasaki Miwa (Mynavi - Nojima) Kinoshita Shiori (Nagano - Chifure) Nakamura Yushika (Nagano - Chifure) Hiratsuka Maki (Inac - Bunnys) Michigami Ayaka (Inac - Iga) Sugita Mei (Inac - Harima) Obara Yuria (Albi - Nippatsu) Nishikawa Asuka (Nagano - Iga) Sakamoto Riho (Nagano - Nippatsu)
Interesting news. Some thoughts about them: - South Korea is confirmed as a new popular destination for Nadeshiko players; - both Chifure and Nippatsu, with their campaign, look like they want to try again to fight for promotion; - Michigami did well to leave INAC in my opinion: she couldn't get significant playing time there, while in Iga she will probably be the starting central striker and she can count on Ami Sugita's assists; - talking about "Sugita", I didn't remember this Sugita Mei. INAC also have Sugita Hina, but I suppose she remains a key-piece of INAC's midfield; - many leaving players for Nagano and Mynavi: are they sizing down their ambitions?
Hi guys, here is my best 5 : 1. Sakaguchi JPN - AUS (AFC Cup) 1-0 2. Iwabuchi NED - JPN (Algarve Cup) 6-2 3. Yokoyama JPN - AUS (AFC Cup) 1-0 4. Sugasawa COR - JPN (Asian Games) 1-0 5. Yokoyama JPN- NOR (friendly) 1-0
Goal of the year 2018 Standings so far...(#4466) blissett, KAPIJXM, Lechus7, Manchester Nadreshiko, frohike, unepommekun, Grampus, And G, #nadeshikofan, pierre bezukhov, Sirtel, TowerofBabel, datschge, ManiacMunkie, frideswide, kumiisiniesta, 63 points Kumi Yokoyama vs Australia (AFC Cup) 1-0 50 points Yui Hasegawa vs Korea DPR (Asian Games) 2-0 36 points Mizuho Sakaguchi vs Australia (AFC Cup) 1-0 32 points Mana Iwabuchi vs Netherlands (Algarve Cup) 2-6 27 points Moeno Sakaguchi vs USA (ToN) 4-2 11 points Yuika Sugasawa vs China (Asian Games) 1-0 8 points Yuka Momiki vs Norway (Friendly) 4-0 7 points Mana Iwabuchi vs China (AFC Cup) 0-1 7 points Mina Tanaka vs Ghana (Friendly) 1-0 6 points Rika Masuya vs Brazil (ToN) 1-2 6 points Aya Sameshima vs Ghana (Friendly) 7-1 5 points Mina Tanaka vs USA (ToN) 1-1 4 points Kumi Yokoyama vs China (AFC Cup) 2-0 4 points Mina Tanaka vs New Zealand (Friendly) 1-0 3 points Yuika Sugasawa vs Korea Republic (Asian Games) 0-1 3 points Rika Masuya vs Vietnam (Asian Games) 5-0 3 points Kumi Yokoyama vs Norway (Friendly) 1-0 honorable mentions Mana Iwabuchi vs. Norway Emi Nakajima vs. China Mina Tanaka vs. Ghana almost there, last day open for votes...
Little late, but hera are my picks: 1. Sakaguchi M. JPN - USA (TON) 2-4 2. Hasegawa JPN-PRK (Asian Games) 2-0 3. Iwabuchi JPN-NED (Algarve Cup) 2-6 4. Yokoyama JPN-CHN (AFC) 2-0 5. Yokoyama JPN - AUS (AFC) 1-0
Happy to see you post your picks, @zaku_II! I was hoping for most of the missing friends to post their picks before the dead-line and most of you didn't let me down for sure! Barring a few names, almost all of the community voted for Lechus7's poll. I guess it would be fun to make a top-three mini-video at the end and maybe (dreaming) somehow managing to share the news with the winning player! I notice that, for clarity, you felt compelled to spell out the initial of the player, in this case: but I can't help pointing out that both Sakaguchi Mizuho and Sakaguchi Moeno are Sakaguchi M.! Of course, just one of them scored vs USA at ToN.
D'oh! But in my defence Mizuho don't need more details to her name, she is the only Sakaguchi there, the rest will be sakaguchi something for a lot of time