Nippon vs Olympic Gaulois 
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After a few months away, we have come nback to our home ground, ARA-JAS though it’s not that good pitch with nbumpy and hard ground.

However 30 minutes heavy squall just nbefore our game made the pitch soft and gentle but a bit slippery. Thickn ncloud blocked the sun light that kept the temperature at comfortable nlevel around 27 degree which was a kind of best condition through the nyear here in the equatorial country.

This card (NIPPON vs OG) always becomesn na tough and competitive game as both of them know that they must get nsome points from the game to climb up the league table from the bottom.

In the 1^st half, NIPPON nwas the one who dominated the game by putting a good pressure, chasing na ball from top to the mid field which made NIPPON DF easier to nterminate nthe attacking from OG.

Once get a ball back from Gaulios, nNIPPON built up the attacking efficiently from Masaya,Asa to Koshida nand Yoshi who were breaking the OG’s DF from left and right side and nsubsequently delivered several good crosses to Yasu and Tomo.

At the 20 minutes, Yasu provided Tomo nwith a lobbing ball in between OG’s DF and GK then Tomo touched a nball faster than them and pushed it into OG’s goal. 1-0.

After that we had kept creating severaln nchances but could not score further.

In the 2^nd half, still nNIPPON nwas the one who dominated the game but only first 10 minutes.

OG obviously pushed their DF line up ntill almost the center circle and was desperately attacking NIPPON for nequalizer.

But again NIPPON was the one who made na second goal.  Once Hama at center back got a ball, immediately npass it to Tsushima at mid field who as well quickly kicked it to the nhuge space behind the OG’s DF. Although Tomo was obviously at the noff side position, luckily the ball was rolling toward the left touch nline where Yoshi was rushing to from behind the half line. 

As there was nothing in front of Yoshi nto be blocked except GK, he dribbled till goal line then executed a ndecent goal without fail.  2-0. 

However NIPPON seemed to run out their nstamina already and all what we could do was just to block OG’s surge nof attacking in front of our goal just like a sandbag through the rest n30 minutes.

We faced so many critical occasions nbut managed to minimize the loss to one goal only because of miracle nsave by Osugi and Nishikawa’s devoted block.

Finally game was finished at 2-1 thoughn nwe must have lost more goals if we would not have Osugi and Nishi’s nmiracle save.

MOM is definitely 40^th nlegend nNishi.

Thanks for wonderful weather and nGaulios nfor fair and very tough game.