Japanese J.League

FT Friday, October 20, 2023
Sagan Tosu LDLWD 1
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Albirex Niigata DDWWD 1
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SAG101
ALB101
Niigata Stadium Big Swan · 17,555 att.

Head to Head

SAG leads series 3-1-1

Lineups

ALB

  1. 1Ryosuke KojimaG
  2. 2Naoto AraiD
  3. 15Taiki WatanabeD
  4. 5Michael JamesD
  5. 25Soya FujiwaraD
  6. 22Eitaro MatsudaM
  7. 6Hiroki AkiyamaM
  8. 8Takahiro KohM
  9. 33Yoshiaki TakagiM
  10. 11Shusuke OtaM
  11. 9Koji SuzukiF

Substitutes

  1. 7Kaito TaniguchiSUB
  2. 16Yota KomiSUB
  3. 17Danilo GomesSUB
  4. 19Yuji HoshiSUB
  5. 32Takumi HasegawaSUB
  6. 3Thomas DengSUB
  7. 21Koto AbeSUB

SAG

  1. 71Il-Kyu ParkG
  2. 20Hwang Seok-HoD
  3. 2Kosuke YamazakiD
  4. 42Wataru HaradaD
  5. 23Taichi KikuchiD
  6. 29Yuto IwasakiM
  7. 44Yuki HorigomeM
  8. 5So KawaharaM
  9. 24Yoichi NaganumaM
  10. 7Kohei TezukaM
  11. 10Yuji OnoF

Substitutes

  1. 14Naoyuki FujitaSUB
  2. 31Masahiro OkamotoSUB
  3. 32Ayumu YokoyamaSUB
  4. 6Akito FukutaSUB
  5. 18Jun NishikawaSUB
  6. 22Cayman TogashiSUB
  7. 41Ryonosuke KabayamaSUB

Timeline

  1. 45'+4' Koji Suzuki (Albirex Niigata) Penalty - Scored at 49'
  2. 45'+5' Yuji Ono (Sagan Tosu) Goal at 50'
  3. 63' Michael James (Albirex Niigata) Yellow Card at 63'
  4. 69' Jun Nishikawa (Sagan Tosu) Substitution at 69'
  5. 69' Ayumu Yokoyama (Sagan Tosu) Substitution at 69'
  6. 74' Danilo Gomes (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 74'
  7. 75' Yuji Hoshi (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 75'
  8. 76' Cayman Togashi (Sagan Tosu) Substitution at 76'
  9. 76' Naoyuki Fujita (Sagan Tosu) Substitution at 76'
  10. 83' Yota Komi (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 83'
  11. 83' Kaito Taniguchi (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 83'
  12. 84' Ryonosuke Kabayama (Sagan Tosu) Substitution at 84'
  13. 86' Takumi Hasegawa (Albirex Niigata) Substitution at 86'

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