KanazawaL31 May · Home Gainare Tottori · 1:3W7 Jun · Home Thespakusatsu Gunma · 4:1L24 Jul · Home Gamba Osaka · 0:6L19 Aug · Home Kyoto Sangyo University · 1:4W2 Sep · Home Imabari · 2:1L29 Sep · Home Shimizu S-Pulse · 0:2
0:2
Finished
Kick-off was
BST
Shimizu S-PulseL29 Aug · Home Kashiwa Reysol · 0:1D2 Sep · Home FC Tokyo · 1:1L6 Sep · Away Kawasaki Frontale · 1:3W12 Sep · Home Avispa Fukuoka · 1:0W19 Sep · Home JEF United Chiba · 2:1W29 Sep · Away Kanazawa · 2:0
In the J-League Cup game on 29 September 2026, Shimizu S-Pulse beat Kanazawa 0:2. Match numbers: corners 3:6, possession, % 44:56.00.
Match report
Shimizu S-Pulse beat Kanazawa 2-0 in the Round of 64 of the J-League Cup on Monday evening. K. Matsuzaki opened the scoring in the 60th minute before K. Kitagawa added a second late on. The away side advanced to the next stage while Kanazawa's campaign came to an end.
Kanazawa pressed forward for much of the second half but Shimizu held firm. The visitors worked a short corner in the 74th minute when five substitutions came on together — K. Sakakibara, K. Shirawachi, H. Suzuki, K. Inoue and T. Hirato for the hosts. K. Miyazaki picked up a yellow card at 76 minutes, the only booking of the match.
Shimizu took control with two goals and never looked back. Kitagawa's strike in the 88th minute closed the game out properly. Kanazawa brought on J. Murata and K. Kinoshita in stoppage time, while Matsuzaki came off for K. Matsuzaki — the scorer of the opening goal — at the death.
The statistics tell their own story. Shimizu enjoyed 56 per cent of possession to Kanazawa's 44 per cent and registered 152 attacks against 131. The visitors won six corners to three and had 14 free kicks compared to ten. Kanazawa committed no offsides but Shimizu was offside twice.
Shimizu sit second in the table after six games — two wins, two draws, two losses and eight points. They beat JEF United Chiba 2-1 last time out and Avispada Fukuoka 1-0 before that. Kanazawa have been inconsistent, winning against Imabari 2-1 but losing 6-0 to Gamba Osaka and 4-1 to Kyoto Sangyo University in recent weeks.
HT⚽60' K. Matsuzaki — Goal⇄74' K. Sakakibara — Substitution⇄74' K. Shirawachi — Substitution⇄74' H. Suzuki — Substitution⇄74' K. Inoue — Substitution⇄74' T. Hirato — Substitution🟨76' K. Miyazaki — Yellow card⇄78' Y. Nishiya — Substitution⇄84' Won Du-Jae — Substitution⚽88' K. Kitagawa — Goal⇄89' J. Murata — Substitution⇄90' K. Kinoshita — Substitution⇄90' K. Matsuzaki — Substitution
L31 May · Home Gainare Tottori · 1:3W7 Jun · Home Thespakusatsu Gunma · 4:1L24 Jul · Home Gamba Osaka · 0:6L19 Aug · Home Kyoto Sangyo University · 1:4W2 Sep · Home Imabari · 2:1L29 Sep · Home Shimizu S-Pulse · 0:2
