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

Urawa v Beleza first 5 min into 2nd half...

 

65 min....Reds 0 Beleza 2...Fujino..l.when it's your day...it's your day

It seems to be turning into a pretty ill tempered affair from Reds point of view

Edit...73 min...Reds 1 Beleza 2...Sugasawa (pen)

Edit..85 min...Reds 2 Beleza 2...Sugasawa...offside??

 

2423 - good attendance. It's ~300 above this season average for them.

Urawa notes almost 20% raise in average attendance for 2022 - comparing with pre-pandemic 2019.

 

F.T....Reds 2 Beleza 2

Edit...Cerezo just beat Bunnys...10-0

 

Today's result:

We League
Urawa (Sugasawa 2) 2-2 Beleza (Fujino 2)
Ohmiya (Takahashi, Toriumi) 2-5 Inac (Tanaka 3, Takase, Narumiya)
Jef (Chiba) 1-1 Albi (Kono)
Nojima (Matsubara) 1-2 Mynavi (Miyazawa, Hamada)
Regina (Ueno) 1-0 Nagano

Nadeshiko League
Orca (Kaneshige) 1-0 Nippatsu
Iga (Mori) 1-0 Nagoya
Cerezo (Iwamoto 2, Momono, Koyama 4, Kitahara, Morinaka, Wada) 10-0 Bunnys
Harima (Shinbori, Chiba 2) 3-0 Speranza

Nadeshiko League 2
NORD (Marugata, Suzuki Wako, Suzuki Marina) 3-0 Belle
Mie 0-1 Anclas (Aida)
Kibi (Yamada) 1-1 Yamato (Hori)

 

Hoshikawa is resigning from his job at Kobe.

https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/sports/202205/sp/0015321898.shtml

Pretty big news.

 

https://fbref.com/en/comps/893/stats/WE-League-Stats#all_stats_standard

take notice that sometimes you need to wait couple of days before an update and even if general stats like matches played or minutes played are already updated, assist or cards may still be not.

 

Yurina Enjo wins Championship in Poland with TME UKS SMS Łódź.
She will get to play in UWCL (qualifiers)

 

Average Attendance in WE League 2021/22 season is up 16.4% (in compare to 2019)

 

To be very honest, I think Japan could use a few more players that can do what Chiba did here. I can think of so many scenes in international games when a Japanese player continues to push on 200% when they could've just “dived” for a definite penalty or foul. Honestly is excellent, but it can, occasionally and unfortunately, be a hindrance in football. Especially when most of your opponents seem to do whatever they can to win. Maybe it's a side effect of professionalizing the sport.

 

There is always going to differences of opinion about dives and handballs but an ex player told me while watching 2015 WWC......"as a general rule of thumb if something LOOKS 'unnatural' it usually is"
Players jumping up to head the ball fling both arms up to get leverage not one.
Players who have been impeded fall over in one go not 'in instalments'
I suppose the truth is it is only the player herself who knows what's what.

 

Regichi (?) of Regina ladies (players who came from Ehime to Sanfre):

 

Sugasawa does it. She dived to get a penalty against Scotland at the last world cup when really there was minimal contact from the Scottish defender. It was a smart dive. She also has fallen down very easily this year in the WE League. Naomoto is probably the worst and even Takahashi does it.

Urawa probably do the most simulations out of any of the WE League teams and yet they are easily the biggest team in the league. Naomoto loves throwing her weight around and makes some pretty hard tackles, but if the opposition reciprocates with similar tackles she will roll around on the ground for thirty minutes. I do not like her for doing it, but I kind of respect her for it.

The thing is I am less critical of simulation when players do it in the penalty box, because they just want what is best for their team and they are human after all. Referees just have to be better at picking out dives.

My main problem with diving is how much it has crept into the game all over the pitch. Players now go down easily anywhere on the pitch and I believe that it creates the wrong mindset. Players start looking for fouls and contact rather than playing the ball. Football is about the ball and controlling it, not looking for contact when you have the ball in an attacking position. Also it sometimes get opposition players sent off.

But having said that I completely understand why players do it and at times it is necessary, because it slows down the play and can break up the rhythm of the opposing team.

 

Confirms my belief that she has the shiniest hair in the league.
Thanks for that.

 

Nojima Stella Sagamihara manager Makoto Kitano steps down.

WEリーグのノジマステラ北野監督が退任　「選手たちを成長させることができたと感じています」(FOOTBALL ZONE)#Yahooニュースhttps://t.co/UUIHNZ06zY

— ノジマステラ神奈川相模原【公式】 (@nojimastella) May 23, 2022

 

Masaaki Sugano who led Nojima from their founding year until 2018, leading them to first division, will take over as General Manager and coach from next season.

https://stellakanagawa.nojima.co.jp/cn36/pg1263133.html

Hamada Haruka has fulfilled her contract with Sendai Ladies and will be leaving. Quite surprising since I feel she’s been the face of woso in the region. It’s great that she was able to score the winning goal in her last game after a season she mostly spent injured.

She doesn’t have a team to go to yet which might mean Sendai thought she wasn’t good enough to keep…

🔵契約満了のお知らせ🟢#浜田遥 選手につきまして、契約満了のため2021-22シーズン限りでの退団が決定しましたのでお知らせいたします。

🔽詳しくはこちら🔽https://t.co/eXXVfq1V7K#マイナビ仙台レディース #WEリーグ pic.twitter.com/BeGvu8lpaA

— マイナビ仙台レディース (@mynavisendai) May 23, 2022

 

His name is actually Masaki Kanno. It always makes me feel a bit better when native Japanese people get the reading of a kanji wrong.

He took Nojima to third in the league and also to an Empress's Cup final. When he was manager they played some very attractive, attacking football. It will be interesting to see what he does and how much he changes things up.

When he managed Nojima he had some very good players at his disposal and his squad was better than the one he is taking over, so I am curious to see how much of a difference he can make. But I am a little excited about next season.

I figured Kitano's days were numbered. I think Nojima have slightly loftier ambitions than finishing second last in the WE League and losing to Nadeshiko clubs in the Empress's Cup. There goal was to win the Nadeshiko League when they first formed the club to give it some perspective.

Kitiano did take over a depleted club that had lost a lot of its good, experienced players, but a lot of the football was pretty uninspiring under him even when some of them were still there.

Having said that, the second half of this season was much better, but given how poor Nojima were in the first half of the season they really could only get better. Kitano also was not afraid to play some of the younger players and I think he is correct in saying that he has helped the development of some of the players.

With Kanno coming back Yoko might come back. For those of you who do not know Yoko has not played a single match for Rayo since January and has been sitting on the bench. I wonder what she will do.

 

Am I the only one who thinks that Ibuki Nagae was a little lucky not to be sent off and incredibly lucky not to be given a yellow card?

I may be too harsh, but to me that is a blatant hand ball. I do not think she should have been sent off, but at least a card. Just so you remind players that raising your arms to stop a goal on the goal line is not okay.

The action starts around the 65 second mark.