Oita Trinita versus Urawa Red Diamonds summary

With forty-five thousand in attendance at Saitama Stadium the Oita Trinita - Urawa Red Diamonds match played to a nil draw.

Ōita’s defense was perfect again and their record of not allowing a goal stretches to four-hundred twenty minutes. At every turn Red Diamonds maestro, Yuki Abe, efforts were thwarted and virtually all crossing attempts to the striking group of Yuichiro Nagai and Naohiro Takahara were stopped cold. What attempts on goal by Urawa were mostly long range efforts from poor angles. Urawa Red Diamonds manager Gert Engels tried to throw the attack forward but the tight-marking Trinita is the best defensive club in the J-League and would not be broken. Offensively, they definitely held back the reigns and seemed to be more interested in the draw and lacked commitment in the counter attack.

I will round-up the balance of the J-League after todays matches and look ahead at next weeks action. Match details and a few good action photos are listed below.

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Oita Trinita
Shusaku NISHIKAWA (Seigo SHIMOKAWA 81′)
Yuki FUKAYA, Masato MORISHIGE, Taikai UEMOTO
ROBERTO, EDMILSON,Mu KANAZAKI (Hiroshi KIYOTAKE 78′),Shingo SUZUKI, Daisuke TAKAHASHI
Yasuhito MORISHIMA (Daiki TAKAMATSU 81′),UESLEI
Substitutes not used:Ryo KOBAYASHI,Teppei NISHIYAMA,Yoshiaki FUJITA,Shunsuke MAEDA

Urawa Red Diamonds
Ryota TSUZUKI,
Keisuke TSUBOI, Marcus Tulio TANAKA, Satoshi HORINOUCHI,
Tadaaki HIRAKAWA, Hajime HOSOGAI ,Yuki ABE ,Takahito SOMA, PONTE (Nobuhisa YAMADA 72′)
Yuichiro NAGAI (EDMILSON 85′), Naohiro TAKAHARA (Tsukasa UMESAKI 88′)
Unused substitutes: Norihiro YAMAGISHI,Shunsuke TSUTSUMI, Yoshiya NISHIZAWA,Sergio ESCUDERO

Category: J League News

Tags: J League News, Oita Trinita, Urawa Red Diamonds

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