Week 19 features a match on Saturday Jul 2nd, where Sagan Tosu hosts Vissel Kobe in a J-League match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but hot day with daytime temperatures of 30 degrees, which hopefuly doesnt affect the pace of the match. In their last match, 6th placed Sagan Tosu, recorded a 5-0 blowout win against Tokyo. Yuto Iwasaki struck first for Sagan Tosu in the 30th minute on a feed from Kei Koizumi, then Diego added another in the 48th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Tokyo couldn’t manage to score, and Sagan Tosu took the shutout win. Sagan Tosu is looking for direction having 4 win and 2 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 18th placed Vissel Kobe, recorded a 0-1 loss against Urawa Reds. David Moberg Karlsson scored the first goal for Urawa Reds in the 90th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Vissel Kobe was frustrated by Urawa Reds’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Urawa Reds ended the match with the shutout victory. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10.
In their last match together, Vissel Kobe was victorious by a score of 4 to 0. Andres Iniesta Lujan scored the first goal for Vissel Kobe in the 2nd minute, then Koya Yuruki added another in the 14th minute In the end, Sagan Tosu couldn’t muster any offence and Vissel Kobe ran away with the shutout win.
Vissel Kobe’s top weapon lately has been Ryuho Kikuchi, who has 2 goals in the last five matches. Both Masaya Tashiro and Taisei Miyashiro have been the hottest scorers for Sagan Tosu in the last five each having scored 2 goals.