Vissel Bounce Back to (Relative) Safety

Another good performance from Wada's new-look Kobe sees them earn an unexpected point in Kawasaki. That point, along with JEF's loss to Sanfrecce sees Vissel climb back out of the relegation zone... just. They are still far from safe, but again showed that they should be able to play their way out of trouble.

Although MIyamoto's spectacular bicycle-kick for the second equalizer grabbed all the headlines, the most reassuring aspect of this game was that Vissel did indeed come back after conceding goals to earn a well-deserved point.



Kawasaki Frontale
Eiji Kawashima
Satoshi Kukino (Shuhei Terada 72), Kosuke Kikuchi, Hiroki Ito, Kazuhiro Murakami
Tomonobu Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Kengo Nakamura
Chong Tese (Yuji Yabu HT), Juninho (Takuro Yajima 76), Renatinho
Scorers: Nakamura 25, Kikuchi 43

Vissel
Tatsuya Enomoto
Yosuke Ishibitsu, Kunie Kitamoto, Hiroyuki Komoto, Toshihiko Uchiyama
Park Kang Jo (Takayuki Yoshida 57), Botti (Hideo Tanaka 88), Tsuneysu Miyamoto, Seiji Koga (Akihito Kusunose 70)
Hiroto Mogi, Yoshito Okubo
Scorers: Okubo 34, Miyamoto 69