Well, meanwhile, just to not let a week pass without scoring, she kept her good habits by scoring vs USA in the National Team.
Matchweek 14 INAC Kobe Leonessa 0 - 0 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza (att: 2 380) Cerezo Osaka Yanmar 0 - 1 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama Yumura 9' (att: 2 314) Urawa Reds 2 - 0 Nojima Stella Sagamihara Shiokoshi 27', Seike 60' (att: 1 910) Albirex Niigata 0 - 1 Omiya Ardija Ventus Ariyoshi 55' (att: 1 477)
Mynavi Sendai 1 - 2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina Takakhira 45'+1 --- Tachibana 2', Ri 84' (att: 1 453) JEF Utd. Chiba 2 - 0 AC Nagano Parceiro Osawa 22', Shirowa 34' (att: 688) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 15m ----- 38p ----- 37 - 13 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 14m ----- 34p ----- 24 - 5 Albirex Niigata ------------------------- 15m ----- 29p ----- 14 - 8 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 14m ----- 26p ----- 24 - 10 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 14m ----- 20p ----- 14 - 16 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 14m ----- 19p ----- 13 - 15 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 14m ----- 16p ----- 17 - 19 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 14m ----- 16p ----- 12 - 15 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 14m ----- 14p ----- 15 - 26 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 14m ----- 13p ----- 13 - 23 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 14m ----- 11p ----- 10 - 21 Nojima Stella Kanagawa ---------- 14m ----- 2p ----- 6 - 28 Top Scorers 13 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 7 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 6 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 6 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 5 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 5 Megumi Ito (AC Nagano) Assists Leaders 9 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 8 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 6 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 5 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe)
Matchweek 16 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar 1 - 1 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza Wakisaka 79' --- Suzuki 75' (att: 6 651) Mynavi Sendai 0 - 3 Urawa Reds Kurushima 15', Ito 50', Seike 74' (att: 1 858) Albirex Niigata 4 - 1 AC Nagano Parceiro Michigami 3'(k.) 68', Ishida 13', Sonoda 25' --- Okugawa 52' (att: 1 508) Nojima Stella Sagamihara 0 - 3 INAC Kobe Leonessa Moriya 38', Narumiya 38', Takase 73'(k.) (att: 858)
Chifure AS Elfen Saitama 2 - 1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina Yoshida 29'(k.) 76' --- Ogawa 55' (att: 853) Omiya Ardija Ventus 0 - 0 JEF Utd. Chiba (att: 697) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 17m ----- 44p ----- 44 - 13 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 16m ----- 37p ----- 27 - 7 Albirex Niigata ------------------------- 17m ----- 35p ----- 20 - 10 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 16m ----- 30p ----- 28 - 12 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 16m ----- 22p ----- 16 - 18 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 16m ----- 21p ----- 14 - 20 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 16m ----- 19p ----- 20 - 21 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 16m ----- 17p ----- 12 - 17 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar ------------- 16m ----- 15p ----- 13 - 22 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 16m ----- 15p ----- 17 - 31 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 16m ----- 14p ----- 16 - 29 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 16m ----- 2p ----- 7 - 34 Top Scorers 15 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 7 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 6 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 6 Megumi Ito (AC Nagano) 5 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 5 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy) Assists Leaders* 10 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 9 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 7 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 5 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) (* mix between wyscout data, fb ref data and my count)
Matchweek 17 INAC Kobe Leonessa 4 - 1 Mynavi Sendai Tanaka 6', Narumiya 8', Tsujisawa 65' 67' --- Hirosawa 77' (att: 2 769) Urawa Reds 2 - 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina Ito 14', Endo 25' (att: 2 670) NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza 7 - 0 Omiya Aridja Ventus Fujino 24' 55' 68', Kamiya 36', Kitamura 38', Hijikata 59' 75' (att: 1 795) Albirex Niigata 2 - 1 JEF Utd. Chiba Ishida 28', Takikawa 90' --- Shirowa 70' (att: 1 644)
AC Nagano Parceiro 1 - 1 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama Kawafune 86' --- Sakuma 71' (att: 1 045) Nojima Stella Sagamihara 2 - 1 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Minamino 47', Shiragaki 90'+2(og.) --- Yakata 90'+1 (att: 668) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 18m ----- 47p ----- 46 - 13 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 17m ----- 40p ----- 31 - 8 Albirex Niigata ------------------------- 18m ----- 38p ----- 22 - 11 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 17m ----- 33p ----- 35 - 12 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 17m ----- 23p ----- 17 - 19 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 17m ----- 21p ----- 14 - 27 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 17m ----- 19p ----- 20 - 23 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 17m ----- 17p ----- 13 - 19 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 17m ----- 15p ----- 14 - 24 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 17m ----- 15p ----- 18 - 35 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 17m ----- 15p ----- 17 - 30 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. --- 17m ----- 5p ----- 9 - 35 Top Scorers 15 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 7 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 7 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 6 Megumi Ito (AC Nagano) 6 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) Assists Leaders* 11 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 9 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 6 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 6 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy) 5 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) (* mix between wyscout data, fb ref data and my count)
Thanks for indicating the name of the own-goal scorer, that's a piece of info that's always missing from Japanese sources!
Don't even mention it... Sometimes is quite hard to decipher the number on the shirt from the replays
Matchweek 18 (mid last week) Urawa Reds 2 - 0 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Shimada 35', Seike 87' (att: 4 024) Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2 - 0 AC Nagano Parceiro Ueno 7' 76' (att: 3 978) INAC Kobe 3 - 0 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama Tanaka 13', Kitagawa 66', Takase 78' (att: 2 722) Omiya Ardija Ventus 0 - 0 Mynavi Sendai (widzów: 2 002)
NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza 2 - 1 Albirex Niigata Sakabe 45'+2, Fujino 88'(p.) --- Miura 80' (att: 1 439) JEF United Chiba 1 - 1 Nojima Stella Sagamihara Kamogawa 10'(p.) --- Minamino 45'+2 (att: 544) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 19m ----- 50p ----- 48 - 13 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 18m ----- 43p ----- 34 - 8 Albirex Niigata ------------------------- 19m ----- 38p ----- 23 - 13 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 18m ----- 36p ----- 37 - 13 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 18m ----- 23p ----- 17 - 22 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 18m ----- 22p ----- 22 - 23 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 18m ----- 22p ----- 14 - 27 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 18m ----- 18p ----- 14 - 20 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 18m ----- 16p ----- 18 - 35 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 18m ----- 15p ----- 14 - 26 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 18m ----- 15p ----- 17 - 32 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 18m ----- 6p ----- 10 - 36 Top Scorers 16 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 9 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 9 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 8 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 7 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe)
Matchweek 19 Albirex Niigata 0 - 2 INAC Kobe Kitagawa 47' 78' (att: 3 721) Chifure AS Elfen Saitama 1 - 2 Urawa Reds Yoshida 59' --- Seike 16', Ito 45'+1 (att: 1 816) Cerezo Osaka Yanmar 2 - 1 Omiya Ardija Ventus Wakisaka 14'(p.), Ogikubo 52' --- Oshima 54' (att: 1 404) Mynavi Sendai 0 - 0 JEF United Chiba (att: 1 043)
AC Nagano Parceiro 0 - 3 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza Hijikata 41' 53', Kamiya 51' (att: 968) Nojima Stella Sagamihara 0 - 1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina Takahashi 82' (att: 818) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 20m ----- 53p ----- 50 - 14 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 19m ----- 46p ----- 36 - 8 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 19m ----- 39p ----- 40 - 13 Albirex Niigata ------------------------- 20m ----- 38p ----- 23 - 15 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 19m ----- 25p ----- 23 - 23 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 19m ----- 23p ----- 18 - 24 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 19m ----- 22p ----- 15 - 29 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 19m ----- 19p ----- 14 - 20 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 19m ----- 18p ----- 16 - 27 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 19m ----- 17p ----- 18 - 35 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 19m ----- 15p ----- 17 - 35 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 19m ----- 6p ----- 10 - 37 Top Scorers 17 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 9 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 9 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 8 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 7 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) Assists Leaders 12 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 10 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 8 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) 7 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 6 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy)
Matchweek 20 URAWA RED DIAMONDS - Champions 2023/24 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina 0 - 2 Omiya Ardija Ventus Inoue 30', Nakada 64' (att: 3 452) Mynavi Sendai 1 - 1 Nojima Stella Sagamihara Ishizaka 86'(k.) --- Otake 14'(k.) (att: 2 042) JEF United Chiba 2 - 1 INAC Kobe Leonessa Osawa 45', Kamogawa 85' --- Takase 68'(k.) (att: 1 344) Chifure AS Elfen Saitama 1 - 2 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza Suzuki 55'(sam.) --- Fujino 12', Kitamura 82' (att: 1 074) AC Nagano Parceiro 1 - 2 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Suzuki 76' --- Yakata 39' 77' (att: 808) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 20m ----- 53p ----- 50 - 14 (AFC WCL qual.) INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 20m ----- 46p ----- 37 - 10 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 20m ----- 42p ----- 42 - 14 Albirex Niigata -------------------------- 20m ----- 38p ----- 23 - 15 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina --- 20m ----- 25p ----- 23 - 25 Omiya Ardija Ventus ---------------- 20m ----- 25p ----- 17 - 29 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 20m ----- 23p ----- 19 - 26 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 20m ----- 22p ----- 16 - 21 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar ------------- 20m ----- 21p ----- 18 - 28 Mynavi Sendai ------------------------- 20m ----- 18p ----- 19 - 36 AC Nagano Parceiro ---------------- 20m ----- 15p ----- 18 - 37 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 20m ----- 7p ----- 11 - 38 Top Scorers 17 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 9 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 9 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 9 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 7 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) Assists Leaders 12 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 10 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 8 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) 6 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy)
17 goals in 20 matches are quite the achievement (also, adding 10 assists to that count is nothing to sneeze at): I wonder if Kiko Seike can keep similar numbers on the international stage. Urawa are such a dominating force on the domestic stage, that it's possible that part of this record depends on the relative weakness of the opposition and on being the offensive terminal of a so stacked team. On the other hand, Seike in this season also scored both on the National Team and in several matches of the AFC Champions' League tournament. We're going to see: if anything, I guess by now she's a lock-in for the Olympic team.
Matchweek 21 INAC Kobe Leonessa 0 - 2 Urawa Reds Tsunoda 29', Seike 74' (att: 3 046) Cerezo Osaka Yanmar 1 - 2 Mynavi Sendai Momono 3' --- Takahira 33', Ota 89' (att: 2 763) Albirex Niigata 0 - 2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina Ueno 68', Ri 85' (att: 1 986) Omiya Ardija Ventus 0 - 1 AC Nagano Parceiro Ito 22' (att: 1 191)
NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza 2 - 1 JEF United Chiba Yamamoto 46', Kinoshita 90'+1(p.) --- Kamogawa 27' (att: 1 175) Nojima Stella Sagamihara 2 - 1 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama Oga 64', Hirano 81' --- Sakuma 13' (att: 1 092) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 21m ----- 56p ----- 52 - 14 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 21m ----- 46p ----- 37 - 12 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 21m ----- 45p ----- 44 - 15 Albirex Niigata -------------------------- 21m ----- 38p ----- 23 - 17 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 21m ----- 28p ----- 25 - 25 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 21m ----- 25p ----- 17 - 30 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 21m ----- 23p ----- 20 - 28 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 21m ----- 22p ----- 17 - 23 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 21m ----- 21p ----- 19 - 30 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 21m ----- 21p ----- 21 - 37 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 21m ----- 18p ----- 19 - 37 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 21m ----- 10p ----- 13 - 39 Top Scorers 18 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 10 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 9 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 9 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 7 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 7 Megumi Ito (Nagano Parceiro) Assists Leaders 12 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 10 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 8 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) 6 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy)
Matchweek 22 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina 1 - 0 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Ueno 77' (att: 6 305) Urawa Reds 3 - 3 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza Seike 40' 90'+1, Osafune 69' --- Suzuki 9', Muramatsu 23', Kanno 43' RC: Kinoshita 90' (Tokyo) (att: 3 942) Omiya Ardija Ventus 0 - 2 INAC Kobe Leonessa Aikawa 34', Tanaka 40' (att: 2 391) Mynavi Sendai 1 - 3 Albirex Niigata Ota 29' --- Kawasumi 10', Ishida 83', Kawmura 87' (att: 2 105)
JEF Utd. Chiba 1 - 0 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama Shirowa 12' (att: 1 729) AC Nagano Parceiro 2 - 3 Nojima Stella Sagamihara Inamura 86', Okubo 90+2' --- Fujiwara 16', Otake 77', Nebu 90'+6 (att: 1 449) Table Urawa Red Diamonds -------------- 22m ----- 57p ----- 55 - 17 INAC Kobe Leonessa --------------- 22m ----- 49p ----- 39 - 12 NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza ---------- 22m ----- 46p ----- 47 - 18 Albirex Niigata -------------------------- 22m ----- 41p ----- 26 - 18 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina ---- 22m ----- 31p ----- 26 - 25 JEF United Ichihara Chiba -------- 22m ----- 25p ----- 18 - 23 Omiya Ardija Ventus ----------------- 22m ----- 25p ----- 17 - 32 Chifure AS Elfen Saitama --------- 22m ----- 23p ----- 20 - 29 Cerezo Osaka Yanmar -------------- 22m ----- 21p ----- 19 - 31 Mynavi Sendai -------------------------- 22m ----- 21p ----- 22 - 40 AC Nagano Parceiro ----------------- 22m ----- 18p ----- 21 - 40 Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sag. -- 22m ----- 13p ----- 16 - 41 Top Scorers 20 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 11 Mami Ueno (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 9 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 9 Mei Shimada (Urawa Reds) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 7 Maho Hirosawa (Mynavi Sendai) 7 Megumi Ito (Nagano Parceiro) Assists Leaders 12 Yuzuho Shiokoshi (Urawa Reds) 10 Kiko Seike (Urawa Reds) 8 Aoba Fujino (Tokyo Verdy) 8 Mina Tanaka (INAC Kobe) 8 Miyabi Moriya (INAC Kobe) 6 Yuzuki Yamamoto (Tokyo Verdy)
That will very much depend on the club/league she will end up with. I'd like her to join one of: FA WSL, NWSL, top 3 of D1 Arkema, top 3 of Liga F, top 3 of Bundesliga (in that order)
My impression is that, by scoring in this year's SheBelieves Cup, she could have raised the interest of some NWSL club.
If she'd go to NWSL then I woudln't mind see her playing for Racing Louisville under Beverly Goebel-Yanez.