[J2-R48] Avispa 2-1 Kofu

And we made it again, a win against a big horse of the league!
We had to take revange for the two big losses in the 2 games before, 2:4 and 6:0...
Not many shots on both sides but we managed to get 3 points in a nice way of scoring goals.
But at first, it looked like Kofu would win the game after scoring the 0:1 in the 17th minute by Junior Maranão.
In the 30th minute, Jun Suzuki played a beautiful pass to Jumbo Okubo on the left side. Okubo played a cross into the box where Takahashi were left all alone by the Kofu-denfenders. Takahashi scored the goal with a powerfull header!Kofu was the better team in the second half, but a good idea from Kiyo Kudo gave us the lead!
It looked like Kiyo gave him self some time to kick it, but he play it fast and Kofu's defence were not ready for that. Jumbo ran threw the defence and socred a beatiful goal with a spinning header! It was a pretty hard game with 30 freekicks on our and 23 on Kofu's side, but just one yellow card for both.

Defender Kazuki Yamaguchi, who came from Fukuoka University this year, made his pro-debut after he was subbed in for Nakajima in the 77th minute.

Thespa lost 5:0 to Cerezo Osaka, so we still got the chance to reach the Top 10. We are just 3 points behind them.

With our victory against Kofu, we helped Cerezo Osaka to get promoted to the J1!
Good look from our side to Cerezo! Well done guys!

Starting 11
GK: Rokutan
DF: Yamagata, Niwa, Nagano, Nakajima
MF: Yusuke, Suzuki, Okubo, Kudo, Okamoto
FW: Takahashi

Bench: Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Nakaharai, Miyahara, Kurobe

Goals
0:1 - 17' - Junior Maranão
1:1 - 30' - Yutaka Takahashi
2:1 - 66' - Tetsuya Okubo

Subs
77' - Nakajima -> Yamaguchi
82' - Takahashi -> Kurobe
88' - Yusuke -> Nakaharai

Caution
2' - Yamagata (1)

Takahashi's goal


Jumbo's goal