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J1 Game 23, Thu 28 Aug 08
Omiya Ardija 1-0 Yokohama F Marinos
1-0 Lavric 33'
GK Ezumi (9)
DF Murayama (7)
DF Leandro (7)
DF Tomita (7)
DF Hato (6)
MF Kanazawa (7)
MF Saeki (7) (Saito 61') (6)
MF Kataoka (8)
MF Daigo Kobayashi (7) (Tokita 67') (6)
FW Fujimoto (8)
FW Lavric (8) (Morita 80')
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
MF Hashimoto
FW Sakurai
Cards
Y Leandro 37'
Y Saeki 61'
Y Lavric 71'
Y Fujimoto 81'
Omiya Ardija secured three precious and perhaps crucial points against Yokohama F Marinos last night, in conditions that were once again atrocious. After a gentle drizzle at the start of the game, the heavens opened and before too long there was a virtual lake in the centre circle that made passing extremely difficult and tackling dangerous.
As far as the Squirrels' starting line-up was concerned, coach Yasuhiro Higuchi left under-achieving forward Kota Yoshihara out after his non-performance against Oita Trinita. This was a just and correct decision, Higuchi choosing to move away from the traditional Ardija 4-4-2 approach with Chikara Fujimoto just behind Klemen Lavric in a 4-4-1-1 formation - and the rangy Slovenian almost opened the scoring early on, when after showing some neat dribbling skills he was tackled by Yuji Nakazawa just as he was about to shoot.
A long-range effort from Yusuke Murayama (a piledriver destined for the top corner, were it not for a one-handed save by Marinos' Tetsuya Enomoto), Fujimoto's skimming low drive and Shin Kanazawa's flash shot all preceded Omiya's 33rd-minute opener. Kanazawa dinked a smart pass to Fujimoto who sprinted down the left wing before producing an excellently-timed cross that evaded the visitors' defence - but not the head of the lurking Lavric, who nodded home from close range.
The conditions in the second half bordered on farcical, as both sets of players struggled to cope with the ever-worsening conditions. Koji Ezumi made a couple of brilliant saves - one of them from Naoki Matsuda's header was world class. The Squirrels keeper also got injured when bravely tangling with Sailors' substitute Yosuke Saito. Despite the fact that some of the stadium lights went off near the end, Ardija held on for a slim victory that may well be decisive in the league table at the end of the season.
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【2008/08/28 20:51】
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| Morishige Steals It At The Death |
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J1 Game 22, Sun 24 Aug 08
Oita Trinita 1-0 Omiya Ardija
1-0 Morishige 86'
GK Ezumi (7)
DF Murayama (5)
DF Leandro (6)
DF Tomita (6)
DF Hato (6)
MF Daigo Kobayashi (5) (Hashimoto 75')
MF Saito (5)
MF Kataoka (5)
MF Fujimoto (5) (Tokita 84')
FW Yoshihara (4) (Kanazawa 56') (5)
FW Lavric (5)
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
FW Morita
FW Ichihara
Cards
Y Saito 6'
Y Hashimoto 85'
Guile, incision, attacking ability - none of these areas were present in Kyushu's Big Eye stadium on Sunday, as Omiya Ardija turned in a limp display that duly ended with a late winner for high-flying Oita Trinita. The absence through suspension of key forward Denis Marques underlined the extent to which the Squirrels are a one-paced, even sluggish team that is not able to create enough decent opportunities to convert. Stand-in striker Kota Yoshihara had his usual nightmare, invisible from start to finish - and were it not for keeper Koji Ezumi continually bailing out his team-mates with spectacular saves, the scoreline would have been much worse.
Ardija had a few shots in the first half and the best of those fell to Klemen Lavric in the third minute. The big Slovenian managed to wriggle his way around two Trinita defenders, but then placed a relatively straightforward shot that Oita's U23 international netminder Shusaku Nishikawa dealt with comfortably. Chikara Fujimoto put himself about in the midfield although not to great effect - and the two main chances in the opening period fell to the home side, free-kicks from Shingo Suzuki and burly veteran Ueslei that were saved well by Ezumi.
The second half was forgettable fare indeed until the final ten minutes when Omiya seemed to come to life, albeit for a brief time. Long-range efforts from Yosuke Kataoka and substitute Hayato Hashimoto at least made the game more exciting although almost inevitably Yasuhiro Higuchi's side capitulated at the end. The previously imperious Ezumi totally misjudged a corner and young midfielder Masato Morishige was on hand to stroke home in the 86th minute. The pressure is back on for Thursday's crunch match with Yokohama F Marinos.
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【2008/08/24 20:01】
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| Denis Sees Red But Squirrels Take It |
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J1 Game 21, Sat 16 Aug 08
Omiya Ardija 2-0 Gamba Osaka
1-0 Denis Marques 4'
2-0 Leandro 43'
GK Ezumi (8)
DF Murayama (7)
DF Leandro (8)
DF Tomita (7)
DF Hato (7)
MF Daigo Kobayashi (8)
MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (7)
MF Saeki (8) (Saito 76')
MF Fujimoto (8) (Kanazawa 72') (6)
FW Lavric (6) (Morita 61') (6)
FW Denis Marques (8)
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
MF Yoshihara
FW Sakurai
Cards
Y Daigo Kobayashi 61'
R Denis Marques 68'
Yasuhiro Higuchi fielded what is looking like his preferred full-strength Ardija side against Gamba Osaka - and the team successfully overcame their recent Omiya Park jinx with a deserved win. Somewhat unusually, the Squirrels began the game well and took the lead just four minutes in, when Klemen Lavric's header from a Yusuke Murayama cross appeared to have crossed the line. Eventually, however, the rebound off goalkeeper Yosuke Fujigaya fell to the right boot of Denis Marques, who made no mistake from inside the six-yard area.
Long range efforts from Chikara Fujimoto, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi and a couple of Daigo Kobayashi free kicks also went close. But Omiya finally notched up another goal just before half time, when Daigo floated in a corner from the left and central defender Leandro rose to angle a perfect bullet header past the keeper. The Squirrels subsequently went into the break two goals to the good.
Gamba coach Akira Nishino tried to change things around at the start of the second half and the previously impotent visitors were much more threatening, especially when former Marinos player Roni entered the fray for the subdued Masato Yamazaki. Squirrels net-minder Koji Ezumi had to make some decent saves and the likes of Lucas and Yasuhito Endo both came close.
The main talking point of the second 45 minutes was nevertheless the dismissal of Denis Marques, who once again had a fine game and had run the Gamba defence ragged. But Ardija's top scorer seemed to lose his temper when shielding the ball on the ground and lashed out at a Gamba player directly in front of the referee. His red card and subsequent suspension was the only negative point of a good day for an improving Omiya ahead of next week's difficult-looking trip to high-flying Oita Trinita.
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【2008/08/16 19:52】
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| Lavric Stars As Ardija Take The Points |
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J1 Game 20, Sat 09 Aug 08
Consadole Sapporo 1-2 Omiya Ardija
1-0 Anderson 2'
1-1 Lavric 9'
1-2 Denis Marques 56'
GK Ezumi (6)
DF Murayama (7)
DF Leandro (6)
DF Kataoka (6)
DF Hato (6)
MF Daigo Kobayashi (7) (Saito 83')
MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (7)
MF Saeki (8)
MF Fujimoto (6) (Hashimoto 86')
FW Lavric (7)
FW Denis Marques (7) (Morita 89')
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
MF Sakurai
FW Yoshihara
Cards
Y Leandro 2'
Y Kataoka 44'
Y Lavric 76'
At last Omiya Ardija brought to an end their winless streak on Saturday, with a dominant performance against a poor Consadole Sapporo team. To the surprise - not to say alarm - of Squirrels fans, coach Yasuhiro Higuchi kept Yosuke Kataoka alongside Leandro in the centre of defence despite first-choice Daisuke Tomita being apparently available again following suspension. Up front, Higuchi awarded a first start to Klemen Lavric, after a series of encouraging displays as a substitute.
But things did not start well. As early as the second minute, Leandro foolishly hauled down Consa forward Anderson in the six-yard area when a cross came in from the left. Out came the yellow card for the big Ardija defender and Anderson scored the resultant penalty, despite Koji Ezumi almost getting a hand to it.
Sapporo's lead was almost doubled by the same player shortly afterwards, when he had the ball in the net from a header. It looked as if Omiya were 2-0 down, but the goal was disallowed for mystifying reasons: no-one was offside and there was no foul on the replay. In the resulting confusion, the Squirrels equalised through Lavric's brilliant left-footed volley following a cross from the right from Denis Marques: a terrific way for the Slovenian to get off the mark in the J-League.
After that, it really was one-way traffic from Ardija. Leandro had a point-blank header saved by the impressive Sapporo reserve goalkeeper Yuya Sato, Daigo Kobayashi had a shot tipped around the post and it looked like Omiya would score with every attack - but being the Squirrels, of course the score stayed at one apiece.
But at last, Ardija edged ahead eleven minutes into the second half through Denis Marques, who was tripped in the box and got up to take the penalty himself. In fact Denis' kick was saved by Sato, but the rebound luckily fell to Omiya's top scorer and he made no mistake in notching up his seventh of the year.
By this point the referee presumably thought two penalties were enough for any match, as he astonishingly waved away Squirrels claims when Daigo was unceremoniously pulled back and then hacked to the ground. But there were no real dramas for Ezumi as the Omiya defence held firm and Denis almost grabbed a second, but for yet another brilliant save from the Dosanko custodian. 2-1 to Omiya, but it could have been a lot more.
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【2008/08/10 06:19】
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| Deluge Can't End Ardija Goal Drought |
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Sun 27 Jul, J1 Game 19
Omiya Ardija 0-0 Shimizu S-Pulse
GK Ezumi (7)
DF Murayama (4.5)
DF Leandro (6.5)
DF Kataoka (5.5)
DF Hato (5)
MF Daigo Kobayashi (6) (Hashimoto 87')
MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (5)
MF Saeki (6.5)
MF Fujimoto (6) (Lavric 80') (6)
FW Kota Yoshihara (4) (Morita 59') (7.5)
FW Denis Marques (4.5)
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
MF Saito
MF Kanazawa
Cards
Y Yoshiyuki Kobayashi 4'
Ninety minutes. Ninety minutes of wet terror. Ninety godawful minutes of pain and suffering and waiting for something to happen. Ninety minutes.
In a battle of teams struggling to stay afloat, Shimizu S-Pulse and Omiya squared off in a rather chippy affair. Shimizu came in off a 3-0 pasting of Albirex Niigata, the third orange brother in J1. Three of their younger players, including newly appointed starter Kaito Yamamoto, were off on U23 duty so the less-than-full-strength squad was ripe for the taking.
Thins nearly went badly off the rails early on, however, when the human stomach muscle - stand-in central defender Yosuke Kataoka - mishit a clearance off the back of a team-mate and put it in a perilous position. This would happen a few times during the game. But tragedy did strike for the visitors in the fourth minute when Yoshiyuki Kobayashi badly mistimed his tackle on a slick pitch and fractured the ankle of sometime national team midfielder Jungo Fujimoto. Early reports are that Fujito has a fractured fibula and is probably done for the rest of the season.
Outside of a Yoshiyuki Kobayashi blast from long range and a couple of S-Pulse shots, there was a ton of back passing and handbags from both squads. Most guilty of killing offensive momentum were the tandem of Squirrels right back Yusuke Murayama and goalshy front man Kota Yoshihara who hesitated and quit on plays......again. On two open chances, Yoshihara managed to play himself offside on a breakaway with Chikara Fujimoto and then absolutely muff a wide open shot.
The second half was more of the same as Omiya came out to a deluge of Shimizu pressure. Naoya Saeki, Leandro and keeper Koji Ezumi were excellent in cleaning up messes, although at one point Leandro cleared a ball precariously close to edging in for an S-Pulse goal.
The most surprising performance was put in by substitute Hiroshi Morita, who immediately changed the game with his hustle and fight (words I thought I never would utter ). His finest moment was a tussle with Shimizu defender Kazumichi Takagi, in which Morita got his leg up high and flicked the ball to wide open Denis Marques. Unfortunately Denis misplayed the ball and ended up softly rolling it to Shimizu keeper Yohei Nishibe.
Slovenian striker Klemen Lavric was the next to come in and his presence was felt when he earned a free kick deep in opposition territiory. Shimizu treated the giant forward like a jungle gym, climbing over and grabbing onto him at will. His one moment of freedom produced a well-timed pass to the waiting Morita (now perched on the wing) who deposited it home for a goal.
But wait! Offside for the second time in two home matches against Shizuoka teams. S-Pulse capitalized on the quick call and pushed the ball up against the still-celebrating Omiya side. Only a nice save by Ezumi stopped what could have been disaster. Shimizu were then able to earn a couple of dangerous corners, which resulted in a fantastic clearance by Morita and a lucky bounce off the post. 0-0 at the end and one single point for the month of July. The break couldn't come soon enough.
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【2008/07/27 21:53】
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| Rampant Whales Leave Squirrels Floundering |
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Mon 21 Jul, J1 Game 18
Nagoya Grampus 4-0 Omiya Ardija
1-0 Yoshimura 16'
2-0 Magnum 28'
3-0 Johnsen 48'
4-0 Sugimoto 88'
GK Ezumi (5)
DF Murayama (5)
DF Leandro (5)
DF Tomita (5)
DF Hato (5)
MF Saeki (5)
MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (5)
MF Kataoka (5) (Saito 45')
MF Fujimoto (5) (Hashimoto 76')
FW Daigo Kobayashi (5) (Lavric 45')
FW Denis Marques (5)
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
FW Morita
FW Yoshihara
Cards
Y Murayama 27'
Y Tomita 44'
Yasuhiro Higuchi finally rang the changes and dropped under-performing forward Kota Yoshihara for Sunday's J1 match at Nagoya Grampus, fielding Daigo Kobayashi up front with a Denis Marques returning from a bout of ill-health. But despite the modification, Omiya Ardija were well and truly hammered by an impressive Nagoya team that to all intents and purposes looked to be in a division higher than the Squirrels, such was the difference in quality on view.
Although Higuchi's side were able to create some opportunities, they as usual squandered them. The closest Ardija came to finding the net was through a long-range strike from central midfielder Yosuke Kataoka in the first half and a Denis Marques shot that hit Whales net minder Seigo Narazaki in the second, while Grampus were clinical in front of goal. Keiji Yoshimura scored the first, curling in a shot from just outside the box just after the quarter-hour mark, and key midfielder Magnum made it 2-0 after Koji Ezumi fumbled a cross.
Trailing once again at half time, the Omiya coach replace Yosuke Kataoka and Daigo with Masato Saito and Klemen Lavric respectively - but just three minutes after the re-start, Norwegian striker Frode Johnsen struck home the killer third with Ardija's defence all at sea. Keita Sugimoto rounded off the scoring near the end to highlight the disparity between the teams.
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【2008/07/21 20:55】
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| Losing Streak Continues As Franca Strikes |
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Thu 17 Jul, J1 Game 17
Kashiwa Reysol 1-0 Omiya Ardija
1-0 Franca 78'
GK Ezumi (6)
DF Murayama (6)
DF Leandro (7)
DF Tomita (6)
DF Hato (6)
MF Saeki (6) (Hashimoto 81')
MF Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (6)
MF Kataoka (6)
MF Fujimoto (7) (Kanazawa 73')
FW Daigo Kobayashi (6)
FW Kota Yoshihara (5) (Lavric 61') (6)
Subs not used
GK Aratani
DF Tanaka
MF Saito
FW Morita
Cards
Y Murayama 58'
Y Leandro 86'
The Mighty Squirrels suffered a monumentally disappointing result in Chiba on Thursday night - their first ever loss to Kashiwa Reysol. With Yusuke Murayama restored to right back in favour of Terukazu Tanaka and Daigo Kobayashi starting up front, Ardija dominated the majority of the possession and really should have come away with a comfortable win rather than a 1-0 defeat.
The responsibility for the fact that this happy outcome did not take place mainly rests on the shoulders of one man - those of Kota Yoshihara, who had several opportunities to score but blew them all and ultimately Omiya's chances of getting anything from the game. The former Gamba Osaka man, who has netted just twice all season despite consistently being awarded a place in the starting line-up, had two great chances near the end of the first half.
One he put wide after being set up brilliantly by Daigo and the other ended up being struck straight at Sun Kings keeper Takanori Sugeno after Yoshihara was put clean through by an interception from Yosuke Kataoka. Daigo also created a good opportunity for Naoya Saeki in the early stages of the second half, but with no-one near him in the goal area the dog-owning midfielder skewed horribly wide when it seemed easier to score what would have been Saeki's first-ever Ardija goal.
But as the missed Omiya chances came thick and fast - Chikara Fujimoto almost lobbed Sugeno in the first half and substitute Hayato Hashimoto blasted one over from a Klemen Lavric knockdown near the end - sure enough, at the other end Franca stole in to chip a flat-footed Koji Ezumi and when that went in it was all over.
Many Squirrels fans commented that it was hard to believe that Reysol are now third in the table, but even so while Yasuhiro Higuchi's team should have steadied the ship by coming away with all the points, instead they are are now looking nervously over their shoulders.
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【2008/07/17 20:55】
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