{"id":24461,"date":"2020-10-01T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=24461"},"modified":"2020-12-29T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T05:58:36","slug":"vissel-continue-post-thorsten-ascendancy-with-narrow-win-over-grampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2020\/10\/01\/vissel-continue-post-thorsten-ascendancy-with-narrow-win-over-grampus\/","title":{"rendered":"Vissel Continue Post-Thorsten Ascendancy with Narrow Win Over Grampus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday saw Japan’s three representatives in the 2020 AFC Champions League once again taking the pitch to play out their rescheduled J.League 1 matches. Defending J1 champions Yokohama F. Marinos host Sagan Tosu at the NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Stadium, while last year’s J1 runners-up FC Tokyo navigate a tricky away tie at Urawa Red Diamonds. Defending Emperor’s Cup champions Vissel Kobe, still without a head coach after Thorsten Fink’s resignation, host high-flying Nagoya Grampus at the Misaki Park Stadium. Now with Atsuhiro Miura in charge of the team, Vissel etched their third straight win after Thorsten’s departure with a closely-fought 1-0 victory over Nagoya, courtesy of a second half strike from FC Barcelona legend Andres Iniesta.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life underneath Miura was a stark contrast to the 7-match winless run in the league that prompted Thorsten’s departure, with both Tosu and Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo shipping four goals as Vissel triumphed 4-3 and 4-0 against them respectively in the two league matches that Miura had taken charge of. Wednesday’s rescheduled match saw a tougher challenge for the Hyogo Prefecture-based side as an excellent Nagoya team paid the Misaki Park Stadium a visit.<\/p>\n

Iniesta showed his class as he powered Vissel’s first chance of the game in the 13th minute. The Spaniard floated a cross that was met by a powerful volley from Vissel’s Brazilian striker Douglas, however Douglas’ attempt could only struck the Nagoya crossbar.<\/p>\n

Vissel were not to be denied in the 60th minute though and the men in crimson managed to nick themselves the lead. Kyogo Furuhashi initiated a Vissel attack from the left wing, with the Japan international passing the ball off towards Douglas. Former Shimizu S-Pulse man Douglas moved the ball towards Iniesta, who played an intelligent one-two with Yuta Goke before the Spaniard rifled in a volley towards the bottom left corner of the Nagoya goal from just outside the penalty box, with the shot leaving Nagoya’s goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak well-beaten. Langerak dived into the right direction in an attempt to save his team’s goal, however Iniesta’s shot was too fast for the Australian to react.<\/p>\n

Miura’s Vissel almost made it 2-0 in the 83rd minute, with Douglas sending a through pass towards Furuhashi. The 25-year old attacker then unleashed a low shot towards the Nagoya goal, only for Langerak to deny a second goal for Vissel. Nonetheless, the three points have been secured and the 1-0 win ensured that Miura had taken 9 points out of 9 from his first three matches as Vissel head coach.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s other J1 action saw FC Tokyo eking out a 1-0 win over Urawa at the Saitama Stadium 2002 thanks to a first half strike from Kensuke Nagai – the Gasmen’s first win at Urawa’s backyard since 2003. Last but not least at the NHK Spring Mitsuzawa, Tosu almost pulled off a famous win over defending champions Yokohama, however Yokohama’s Brazilian striker Erik managed to save Ange Postecoglou’s men in the 84th minute, salvaging a solitary point for the defending champions in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday saw Japan’s three representatives in the 2020 AFC Champions League once again taking the pitch to play out their rescheduled J.League 1 matches. Defending J1 champions Yokohama F. Marinos host Sagan Tosu at the NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Stadium, while last year’s J1 runners-up FC Tokyo navigate a tricky away tie at Urawa Red Diamonds. Defending Emperor’s Cup champions Vissel Kobe, still without a head coach after Thorsten Fink’s resignation, host high-flying Nagoya Grampus at the Misaki Park Stadium. Now with Atsuhiro Miura in charge of the team, Vissel etched their third straight win after Thorsten’s departure with a closely-fought 1-0 victory over Nagoya, courtesy of a second half strike … Continue reading “Vissel Continue Post-Thorsten Ascendancy with Narrow Win Over Grampus”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":25093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[381,57,1267,95,289],"class_list":["post-24461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia","category-japan","tag-j1-league","tag-japan","tag-nagoya-grampus","tag-slider","tag-vissel-kobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24470,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions\/24470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}