Vissel Kobe, make the first victory this season after opening home win against Sagan Tosu with a score of 4-0 in the J.League 2022 at Noevir Stadium, Kobe.
Kobe, which has not yet won the league match since the opening of the season, welcomes Tosu, who is undefeated in four rounds, aiming for the first consecutive win of the season.
Home Kobe will take the lead in the 2nd minute of the match. Gotoku Sakai , who escaped from Yuki Kobayashi’s long feed, sent a grounder cross by dodging the opponent at a deep position on the left side. Andres Iniesta, who received the ball in the center of the box, swung his right foot and stabbed it in the lower-left corner of the goal.
In the 14th minute, Kobe widened the lead. Yoshinori Muto seizes the ball by putting pressure on the opponent’s build-up. When you turn to the counter, the ball passes to Koya Yuruki on the left side of the penalty area via Iniesta. Yuruki poured his left foot into the lower right corner of the goal.
After that, Tosu grabbed the ball, but the away team couldn’t score the goal while pushing it in. When Kobe turned back with a two-point lead, he scored the third point, which almost determined the match, in the 64th minute. Sakai turned back with a float from the left side of the penalty area, and Muto stabbed into the lower-left corner of the goal with a direct volley on his right foot.
In the additional time of 1 minute in the second half, Kobe scored the 4th point, which was a bad push. Yuya Osako connects the goalkeeper Daiya Maekawa’s goal kick with his head, and Bojan Krkić keeps the ball. Bojan chose the last pass to Osako who overtook, and Osako shook the net by winning one-on-one with the opponent GK.
The match ends as it is. Kobe, who had a good save by Daiya Maekawa, won 4-0 and scored the long-awaited first white star of this season’s league match in the 12th game of the opening. Tosu was the second defeat of the season after losing five league games for the first time.
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