Official 2022 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Matsubara Yuna

 

INAC lead at half-time and looking pretty comfortable.

Nojima have actually had some pretty good chances to score, but they continue to make the wrong choices in front of goal. This has been an ongoing problem.

Nojima play a fairly rough kind of game, but INAC look like sooks to me, but I am biased.

From what I can see Hiroshima are killing it. They are playing with a lot of confidence. Elfen just need a better midfield and they will become so dangerous in my opinion.

 

Yes the wrong team. Very embarrassing.

 

Yamaguchi and Tachibana have come on for Hiroshima.

 

Tanaka scores another nice goal. She has been a completely different player in the second half of the season.

 

It seems every time Nojima gets close to scoring INAC is the one that scores instead. Great shot by Mina Tanaka. Makes up for her really bad miss in the first half imo. She's really been scoring left and right after her condition improved.

 

NIce goal but there was an offside missed in the build up.

 

Narumiya scores.

 

Nojima 0 INAC 3

That should settle things really

 

A bit unrelated but the WE league probably has the best camera work out of all professional woso leagues. I really struggle watching the WSL. Sometimes their one camera doesn't even show the edge of the pitch.

 

I take it back, only Tachibana is on. Why do they tease me?

 

And I was just about to post that in the first case mentioned you have to wonder why she isn't on from the start(but I am biased)

 

My second favourite Hiroshima player Tachibana scores a very nice goal with her left foot.

 

Shimabukuro with great awareness to intercept the ball high up the pitch. I'm really looking forward to watching Hiroshima next season with Masuya on the field. They may be the dark horse.

 

Ueno gets her second.

 

FT Hiroshima 4-0 Chifure

I can't say much about either game because I was switching between the two but I do think Hiroshima's work rate this game has been ridiculous. It's really hard to imagine they were just celebrating their first ever win at home a few weeks back. Now they have 4 wins out of their last 5 games with their only loss being 2-3 against Kobe.

Edit: I did not know Tachibana was fluent in English... She is answering all her questions in English as some kind of joke.

 

F.T......Nojima 0 INAC 3

Sunday 8.5.2022...Significant day for womens football

INAC Kobe Leonessa win the first professional league title.

Congratulations to all INAC followers

(I hope the league is a success and there are schoolgirls watching today whose dream of being a professional football player are realised.)

 

INAC run out very comfortable winners in the end. Congratulations INAC for becoming inaugural WE League champions.

I know the stats show INAC have an impenetrable defence and easily the best defensive record in the league, but if you were watching this game with no knowledge of this information you would probably think that INAC were a little lucky to get away with a clean sheet.

Nojima started well and were making things difficult for INAC, but to concede such an easy goal so early in the game is just unforgiveable. Yes INAC are the better team, but they were very nervous today and the longer INAC went without scoring the more nervous they would have become. That is why that first goal was so disappointing.

Also the midfield were doing all this hard work to turn the ball over and create some good short counter chances, but the forwards were letting them down with some poor choices in front of goal. Maybe the poor choices were down to INAC's incredible defending, but I tend to think it was Nojima's poor decision making. Or they could get a new manager.

Ohga was good in defence and Wakisaka tried hard with Sugita.

Nojima need another really good midfielder. My favourite player Chihiro Ishida probably is not good enough for the WE League, unless she can improve her passing and ball control in tight spaces. I still love watching her because her off the ball work is incredible, but she needs to do more for the team when they have the ball. I would love Yoko to come back, or anybody who is very good at holding onto the ball in tight spaces.

I think you will find that their success started to change once Yanase and Ogawa started playing together in midfield. Nakamura persisted with Shiho Matsubara for far too long in my opinion and I do not think he wanted to drop Kinga, because she is Kinga. Kawashima also going back up on the wing has helped them too.

Hiroshima have a good squad with tremendous depth in midfield and on the wings so Nakamura is spoilt for choice. Most of them will not play for Nadeshiko (Yanase, Nakashima and maybe Ogawa excluded), but he has a lot of good players just below that level. They still need better defenders. They could surprise next year. I hope they do.

Tachibana studied and played football in the US at college.

 

Today's result:

We League
Nojima 0-3 Inac (Tanaka 2, Narumiya)
Regina (Ueno 2, Matsubara Yuna, Tachibana) 4-0 Chifure
Albi 0-0 Beleza

Nadeshiko League
Speranza 0-1 Iga (Shimano)
Harima (Chiba, Shinbori) 2-0 Orca

Nadeshiko League 2
NORD (Matsuyama) 1-1 Kibi (Nishimura)
Shizuoka (Morita, Tsuchiya, Watanabe) 3-2 Anclas (Hayashi, Koyama)
DR Hiroshima 0-1 Mie (Kuwabara)
Tsukuba (Okidoi) 1-1 Belle (Nakamura)

 

Congratulations to INAC and its fans for winning the first profesional league in Japan

 

As much as I love Yamaguchi even I have to concede that Nakashima has been very good for most of the season on the left and deserves her first-team status. All Chihiro can do is be positive and play well when given the opportunity.

If she is willing to head east Nojima could definitely use her on the left.

Japan has a lot of good left-wingers at the moment.

 

There does not appear to be a clear option on the left, which makes me wonder when Nadeshiko will adopt INAC's formation and just play three at the back with deep-lying wingers/wing backs.

Defensively it might make the most sense, especially against physically stronger and faster opponents.