Chiba 1-2 S-Pulse

Barry writes:

Chiba 1-2 S-Pulse
Fukai 58 ---------------Okazaki 18
-----------------------------Aoyama 80

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I didn't go up to Chiba for this one, although our travelling army was out in force as ever. I also didn't see it, on account of being in Kansai for the weekend. I got back late last night, hence the late update to the site.

While I was over enjoying Universal Studios, the boys were doing the business grabbing another vital three away points. Okazaki and Johnsen demonstrated their increasingly deadly partnership to open the scoring. JEF levelled in the second half with a cracking goal from Fukai before Aoyama connected with a long free kick to grab a rare goal, and what turned out to be the winner.

With many teams above us dropping points, we could make up some ground on the top five. Next up is Urawa in the league cup before facing them again next Sunday in the league. They've lost their last two, away to bottom of the table Oita (who have lost 15 from their last 16) and they got spanked at home 3-0 by Nagoya on Saturday, so it's as good a time as ever to play them.

Click here for the full up to date league table. Our match with Albirex Niigata in a fortnight is going to be a huge yardstick as to how we can expect the second half of the season is going to go. Compared to last year, we're well placed and have it all to look forward to!

Line Up

GK K. Yamamoto

DF Ichikawa
DF Iwashita
DF Arata
DF Ota

MF Fujimoto
MF Ito
MF Honda
MF Edamura

FW Okazaki
FW Johnsen

Subs used

Aoyama on for Fujimoto (HT)
Hara on for Ota (60)
Paulo on for Okazaki (89)

Videos

Full highlights:

And finally, a video of part of the excellent Hollywood Dreams rollercoaster at USJ.



I loved it. :)