Regina gave away their last chance to fight for the top 3 , meanwhile Mynavi comes back one point behind and might finish above Regina in the standings next week.
VfB Stuttgart now playing for promotion in 1.Bundesliga. Yuka Hirano starting, Haruka Osawa on the bench. With two matchdays to play 1.Stuttgart 54 75-30 2.Sand 51 50-23 3.Mainz 49 67-29 2 teams will be promoted and we know already that it will be two teams with Japanese players.
Stuttgart promoted after 4:1 win. Mainz with good chance for second place after 5:0 win against Ingolstadt. Sand only played 1:1 in Andernach and is 16 goals behind Mainz which play their remaining match at last placed Warbeyen.
The result of my game (1): Quango 35 1 Aston Villa 2 Liverpool 3 Manchester City 20 4 Fujino, Matsukubo, Tanaka 5 nobody 10 6 nobody 5 Miora 35 1 Arsenal 20 FA Cup semifinal 2 draw 3 Chelsea 4 Itamura, Tanaka (Utah), Matsukubo 5 nobody 10 6 nobody 5 bliss 40 1 Arsenal 20 2 Liverpool 3 Manchester City 20 4 Kiko Seike, Manaka Matsukubo, Remina Chiba 5 Mao Itamura 6 Mao Itamura Lohmann 65 1 Draw 2 Brighton 30 3 Manchester City 20 4 Seike, Hasegawa, Matsukobo 5 Nobody 10 6 Nobody 5 une 85 1 Arsenal 20 2 Brighton 30 3 Manchester City 20 4 Seike, Matsukubo, Tanaka 5 nobody 10 6 nobody 5 lukephan 45 1. Arsenal 20 2. Liverpool 3. ManCity 20 4. Tanaka, Matsukubo, Tanikawa 5. Tanaka 6. nobody 5
Current ranking of my game (1): 1 une 460 2 lukephan 445 3 Quango 400 4 bliss 390 5 Miora 380 6 Lohmann 360 7 frideswide 75
I am going to post the cumulative rankings after tomorrow's game of U-17 Nadeshiko Japan (that I am going to miss live, because at work ).
I'm really sorry. This result was too early. I forgot NWSL's games are not finished yet. So, I may have to change this result if Tanaka scored from now.
1, Japan 3-1 South Korea 2, Sumiya 3, Tanaka, Sumiya, Kurita, Higuchi, Hanashiro 4, Kurita 5, Nobody 6, 17th minute
Well, they had some half chances. Maybe even more than Little Nadeshiko. Very tough team to beat. Let's hope for halftime changes of Ikeda/Tanaka improving scoring power (and my prediction chances). 0-0 HT
Is this Little Nadeshiko's best team? They look terrible. Incredibly slow in transition and appear to be content to just walk the ball to South Korea's goal. It is not working. Long passes to nowhere and very little movement. The South Koreans are organised so you have to make them disorganised and the best way to do that is to move the ball quickly. Too often Little Nadeshiko create a turnover and then pass the ball backwards. I do not like to pick on players especially at this age, but number 3 Itoh looks completely disinterested. She should be taken off in my opinion.
H.T. Japan 0-0 South Korea This is an opposite situation from my expectation. Little Nadeshiko is having hard time to evade South Korea's pressures and their counter attacks are threatening.
It's hard for CDFs to deliver the ball forward when they are completely free because all players are on mark.
62nd minute and Korea had two serious scoring opportunities, unlike Nadeshiko. Should we start to worry?
Start to worry? I have been worried from the 15 minute mark. Little Nadeshiko are being out played. If they win it will not be because they are the better team.