Official 2019 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Less about skill and more about speed and strength with those two teams, so they match up well against each other. Though the level of football was okay. I think Incheon and Beleza are the two better teams of the four.

 

FT Incheon 0 Beleza 2

Except for the bad defensive error at 82 mins Beleza looked pretty much in control.
Should have scored at least one more goal though.

Looks odd... Beleza without Shimizu....she's such a fixture

 

She played as a CB along with Takahashi Hana in Young Nadeshiko.

 

But, the China team looked more dangerous for me because of the existence of the very fast CF and tight mark on Beleza's key players.

 

Beleza deserved the win, but they rode their luck in the first half. Incheon in the first half created the better chances, particularly down the left flank. Beleza's right back today (Wakaba Goto 25) was caught out three or four times in the first half. She improved in the second half, but Incheon had lost a bit of their energy.

Hasegawa was very good along with Ueki. After that it is harder for me to find really good players for Beleza. Momiki and Kobayashi were both poor, though I am not sure about Kobayashi in general.

In the second half Beleza were the much better team, but they still did not really create any great chances from open play until the second goal. This is partly due to Incheon actually defending really well and also defending deep like the Chinese side did.

Nadeshiko League teams should take a leaf out of their books and defend deeper against Beleza next season.

But it was a good performance by Beleza. I think they will score quite a few against Melbourne.

 

Absolutely! You can take all the skill in the world, but somebody who is fast is terrifying for any defender.

Sam Kerr playing for Nojima, Beleza would be in a serious panic.

 

To be fair to her, she probably has not played there a lot for Beleza and now she is playing against Incheon, so I think it is okay to cut her some slack. Going forward she looked good, just defensively not so good. I will probably watch the first half again to check my memory.

She made one nice run in the second half and also another in the first half, but compared to Ueki she was nowhere near as impactful in my opinion. I am probably being a bit harsh on her.

 

Tomorrow's games:

Empress's Cup third round
Albi vs Chifure 11:00
Urawa vs Shizuoka 13:00
Inac vs Cerezo 14:00

 

NT members for E1 Championship:

GK
Ikeda, Yamashita, Hirao

DF
Matsubara, Miyake, Doko, Shimizu, Seike, Miyagawa, Minami

MF
Nakajima, Kurishima, Momiki, Hasegawa, Sugita, Miura, Endo

FW
Sugasawa, Iwabuchi, Tanaka, Ikejiri, Kobayashi, Ueki

 

Small news: Nadeshiko jersey 30% off in Adidas stores worldwide

 

I am not surprised... Does anybody actually want these...? They look awful.

 

...I guess it has more to do with black friday shopping spree...and said jersey isn't this new one.It's that previos one with stripes.

 

Or 3AM in this part of Europe that's still just about part of Europe possibly maybe..who knows

 

First half:
Albi 0-0 Chifure
Chifure overwhelmed Albi; a lot of talents like Azami, Arakawa,Uetsuji, Nagano and Nakamura.
I really wonder why this team was unable to promote.
It's far better than Ehime.

 

AFC Club Champs...........2.50 am...........this better be worth it

 

Melbourne 0 Beleza 1

So far so good

 

Melbourne 0 Beleza 2 Beleza look very comfortable

 

HT Melbourne 0 Beleza 2

Strength and speed coming second by a long way so far....Beleza seem to be going past them at will and they are winning the ball back
The heart seems to have gone out of Melbourne

 

There aren't a lot of surprises in this one. Though I still can't get over how much space there is for players to run into on the left side for Beleza. The right back/right midfielders for Victory are all over the place. However it might be to marking Hasegawa tightly.

I still think Beleza's back line is too high and could be exploited, but the Victory have barely caught sight of the ball.