Marcio Show

Niigata 3-1 Kobe
J1-14 @ Niigata

Two goals from Marcio Ricialdes put the team to 4th place of the table. The first one is superb FK equlizer in 36 min. The course of his shot didn't look so hard to defence but was contrary to the keeper's expectation.The ball glanced off Enomoto's hand into the net.The other is the winner of the game. 8 minutes from the half time, the 25 year old MF headed reverse ball from Yano's head to Sakamoto'cross. In 67 minute Edimlson added the lead with his free header to Sakamoto's another perfect cross when Yano made space for the Brazillian striker by running with an opponent defender in tow. Niigata suffered visitor's pressure in the mid field in the early part of the match and conceded beautiful goal from Kobe's succesive direct plays. However Niigata dominated after Marico's leveller.

Goals:Marcio(36:3,53:4),Edmilson(67:8)
Bookings:Marcio(58:C),Yano(80:C)
Member:Kitano,Uchida,Chiyotanda,Nagata,Sakamoto(89:Tanaka),Chiba,Honma,Marcio,Matsushita (73:Matsuo),Edmilson,Yano(85:Suzuki)
Subs Not Used:Nozawa,Nakano,Terakawa,Kawahara
League Position: 10th >>> 4th

OB's MVP:Marcio:His superb FK turn the game around

Next Match: vs Omiya(16th May:J1-15:A)