Kazuki Gets His Chance (at last)

Vissel's Okinawan forward strikes late in the game to give Kobe a much deserved win. Although the arthritic Marcel started the game, common sense prevailed in the second half as he made way for the more sprightly Ganaha. Hopefully, this will see Ganaha earn a place in the starting lineup next time.

The only criticism of this much improved team performance has to be that despite having 19 efforts on goal, they only scored from one of them.

Vissel
Kenta Tokushige
Toshihiko Uchiyama (Akihito Kusunose HT), Kunie Kitamoto, Tsuneysu Miyamoto, Yosuke Ishibitsu
Hideo Tanaka, Ryuhei Niwa, Alan Bahia, Kenji Baba (Park Kang Jo 73)
Marcel (Kazuki Ganaha HT), Hiroto Mogi
Scorer: Ganaha 90

Montedio Yamagata
Kenta Shimizu
Ryo Kobayashi, Takuya Miyamoto, Hidenori Ishii, Tatuya Ishikawa
Kim Byung Suk (Kohei Miyazaki 62), Masaru Akiba, Takumi Watanabe, Katsuyuki Miyazawa
Tomoyasu Hirose (Tetsuro Ota 82), Nobuyuki Zaizen (Shogo Sakai 77)