Japanese J.League

FT Saturday, August 6, 2016
Vissel Kobe DLWLW 0
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Albirex Niigata LLLWL 1
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VIS000
ALB101
Niigata Stadium Big Swan · 18,467 att.

Head to Head

VIS leads series 1-0-4

Lineups

ALB

  1. 21Tatsuya MoritaG
  2. 24Ryoma NishimuraD
  3. 7Bruno CortezD
  4. 27Ken MatsubaraD
  5. 2Kazunari OnoD
  6. 14Tatsuya TanakaM
  7. 18Sho NaruokaM
  8. 6Yuki KobayashiM
  9. 8Léo SilvaM
  10. 13Masaru KatoM
  11. 10Rafael SilvaF

Substitutes

  1. 11Hiroshi IbusukiSUB
  2. 3Shigeto MasudaSUB
  3. 9Ryohei YamazakiSUB
  4. 41Kazuki KozukaSUB
  5. 22Goro KawanamiSUB
  6. 17Yuta ItoSUB
  7. 25Kei KoizumiSUB

VIS

  1. 18Kim Seung-GyuG
  2. 6Shunki TakahashiD
  3. 39Masahiko InohaD
  4. 4Kunie KitamotoD
  5. 44Wataru HashimotoD
  6. 17Hideo TanakaM
  7. 15Seigo KobayashiM
  8. 24Masatoshi MiharaM
  9. 9Daisuke IshizuM
  10. 19Kazuma WatanabeF
  11. 11Leandro Montero da SilvaF

Substitutes

  1. 13Keijiro OgawaSUB
  2. 34So FujitaniSUB
  3. 31Yuya NakasakaSUB
  4. 2Yudai TanakaSUB
  5. 30Kenta TokushigeSUB
  6. 14Naoyuki FujitaSUB
  7. 25Junya HigashiSUB

Timeline

  1. 31' Masatoshi Mihara (Vissel Kobe) Yellow Card at 31'
  2. 42' Rafael da Silva (Albirex Niigata) Goal at 42'
  3. 55' Rafael da Silva (Albirex Niigata) Yellow Card at 55'
  4. 58' Naoyuki Fujita (Vissel Kobe) Substitution at 58'
  5. 60' Kei Koizumi (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 60'
  6. 64' Yuya Nakasaka (Vissel Kobe) Substitution at 64'
  7. 73' Yuta Ito (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 73'
  8. 74' Ryohei Yamazaki (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 74'
  9. 78' Keijiro Ogawa (Vissel Kobe) Substitution at 78'
  10. 81' Morita Tatsuya (Albirex Niigata) Yellow Card at 81'
  11. 86' Naoyuki Fujita (Vissel Kobe) Yellow Card at 86'

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