Sagan as a whole can be happy with the way July is shaping up for them. Myung-Hwi Kim’s wards had two fights: they managed to win one, while in the second they managed to escape defeat. The away team met with Hiroshima. On that day, players did not do much on the field, because the opponent’s goal in the 62nd minute did not become a revelation. However, players found the strength to win back, having done it already in the first compensated minute by the referee, ending the match with the 1:1 draw. It seemed this was not enough forthe club from Tosu and they repeated the trick with a goal in the last minutes. This time, Fukuoka (1:0) acted as the victim, which cost one mistake to leave the Japan Cup. Sagan made it to the 1/8 finals.
Kobe continues their winning streak, which already totals to five matches. However, such a success should not be overestimated, since the team led by Atsuhiro Miura met with far from the most formidable opponents. In the Japanese Cup, Iniesta and company knocked out at first the extremely weak Suzuka Point (5:0), and last week they knocked out the balancing on the edge of the relegation zone, Tokushima (1:0). In the championship, today’s guests outplayed Fukuoka (2:1), which was struggling for survival, defeated Senan (3:1) and also destroyed Yokohama, which was going in the bottom line with a score 5:0. Therefore, it is rather problematic to judge the real strength of the black-and-white ones.
