Tokushima Vortis 1:0 Iwaki: Match Result

Match report

Tokushima Vortis Edge Past Iwaki 1:0

Tokushima Vortis beat Iwaki 1:0 in the J-League 2 regular season on Saturday, September fifth. D. Watari's thirty-third minute strike was enough to separate them. The hosts remain twelve in the table while Iwaki sit eighteenth. The goal came from a single moment of efficiency. Watari found a way through when it mattered. Tokushima only managed one shot on target all afternoon, but they didn't need more. To be fair, Iwaki had possession but couldn't cut them open at will. There were three yellow cards for the hosts and one for the visitors. K. Iwao went off after sixty-two minutes, the same minute Watari was replaced. Iwaki made two changes at sixty-three and then added three more substitutions in the final twenty minutes. The numbers tell part of the story. Tokushima had forty-three percent possession against fifty-seven for the visitors, but they registered one hundred attacks to eighty-nine. Iwaki won fifteen corners to three, yet their eighteen shots off target never found the net. One shot on target each side. The result extends Tokushima's unbeaten run to eight while Iwaki's poor form continues. They had three losses in their previous five games before this, and now it's four defeats from five. The table goes out of the window in these games, but the gap between them is widening.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 43 – 57.00

Shots on target 1 – 1

Shots off target 10 – 18

Attacks 100 – 89

🟨 22' K. Iwao — Yellow card ⚽ 33' D. Watari — Goal 🟨 45+1' M. Moyo — Yellow card ⇄ 62' D. Watari — Substitution ⇄ 63' Y. Takahashi — Substitution ⇄ 63' A. Yamanaka — Substitution 🟨 67' K. Fujii — Yellow card ⇄ 76' Y. Michiwaki — Substitution ⇄ 80' T. Sugimoto — Substitution ⇄ 80' K. Iwao — Substitution ⇄ 84' R. Nishitani — Substitution ⇄ 87' Lucas Barcelos — Substitution ⇄ 87' Y. Takagi — Substitution 🟨 90+3' Thonny Anderson — Yellow card

Match events

22' 0:0 Tokushima Vortis Yellow card K. Iwao
33' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Goal D. Watari
45+1' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Yellow card M. Moyo
62' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Substitution D. Watari off: Y. Kajiya
63' 1:0 Iwaki Substitution Y. Takahashi off: T. Kuwata
63' 1:0 Iwaki Substitution A. Yamanaka off: S. Nakajima
67' 1:0 Iwaki Yellow card K. Fujii
76' 1:0 Iwaki Substitution Y. Michiwaki off: K. Tanaka
80' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Substitution T. Sugimoto off: S. Kodama
80' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Substitution K. Iwao off: T. Inami
84' 1:0 Iwaki Substitution R. Nishitani off: S. Fukaminato
87' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Substitution Lucas Barcelos off: Thonny Anderson
87' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Substitution Y. Takagi off: J. Miyazaki
90+3' 1:0 Tokushima Vortis Yellow card Thonny Anderson

Statistics

43 Possession, % 57.00

1 Shots on target 1

10 Shots off target 18

100 Attacks 89

3 Corners 15

0 Free kicks 14

1 Offsides 1

3 Yellow cards 1

0 Red cards 0

14 Goal kicks 7

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