Good solid debut from Sugawara. Was praised as Bremens best defender yesterday here in German pay tv from the commentators.
Sugawara is great since his arrival are Bremen. It's normal for Machino he was injured long and need to come back into rhythm. And to be fair he was not that bad. He played only 2 games without a goal nothing to worry about. I am more concerned about Gladbach overall, they are playing terrible. And Shuto is nonetheless Gladbach top goal scorer ^^. Cause till now Gladbach scored 0 goals this season.
Assisted the 1-1 for Bremen and was very active. Great game which Bremen won 2-1 against Wolfsburg. Sugawara is rated very highly here in Germany and in Bremen. Good move.
I know it's the wrong thread (and apologies for that) but Mio Backhaus has been sensational for Werder today against Leipzig.
It's the right thread cause he is half japanese and also think strongly about to play for JNT but also Germany if course. And yeah he is pretty good.
Great play from Sugawara and a great assist to make it 1-1 against Frankfurt. It was a good decision to go to Bremen. His 4th assist. He is very ver active, almost every attack runs over Sugawara.
Next assist vs Stuttgart to gave Bremen the 1-0 lead. Very nice attack. Sugawara is having a real solid season. If he could score 2-3 goals on top of that he would be really really good. His 6th assist of the season so far. Edit: and now nearly scored, great run, great shot.
Red for Sugawara in the 4th minute after VAR check. Unlucky but it's a fair red card. Way to hard from Sugawara.
The question should be why is he making that kind of tackle that early on in that part of the pitch? And the WC squad announcement is next week! Although it won't make a massive difference to Moriyasu's decision it was a very silly decision to make that tackle
Nothing to worrying, Sugawara will be in the WC Squad, he played a solid season, deserved it but will normally play a super sub role, cause we don't have wingbacks in Moriyasus system and thats totally cool. He is a good squad player.
Something that will help Sugawara is that he is good with set pieces. This Japan squad doesn't have that many good free kick takers but Sugawara is good with free kicks and crossing