http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nagoya-Grampus-c39993 4-0 Al Ain – AFC Champions League recap
AFC Champions League continues as Nagoya Grampus cruised past Al Ain by a comfortable 4-0 margin. The Two group F teams went head-to-head on Tuesday, the 12th of April at Toyota Stadium. Mu Kanazaki’s brace dented the hopes of the UAE based football
club in what was Nagoya’s first win in three games.
Nagoya went in with a standard 4-4-2 formation. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rami-Yaslam-c30518 played behind Badea. Ismail
Rabee started in goal for the Boss.
Dragan Stojkovic’s side got the game off to a brisk start. Grampus looked a far better side from very early in the piece. Al Ain were put on the back-foot and hardly managed to move forward as Nagoya started making in-roads and built immense pressure upon
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexandre-c4885 Gallo’s side. The constant pressure eventually paid off when Kanazaki’s strike ended in the back of the net on the 27th minute mark. This goal did propel Al Ain to move forward but they were denied by steady Grampus defence each time.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Japan-c2928 based outfit were looking more likely to extend their lead as Gallo’s unit were reluctant to move forward. Al Ain were to blame themselves when Kanazaki, once again on the 45th minute mark, netted his shot past Rabee to go into the half
time with a 2-0 advantage.
The second half was a similar tale as Grampus continued from where they had left. Al Ain did show some signs of getting back into the match but all their hopes faded away when midfielder http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ibrahima-Keita-c16615 scored an own goal to make the score line 3-0 in the
61st minute. Al Ain were completely down and out as they had no answers to the constant pressure built upon them. The woes didn’t end here as defender Fares Juma was given the marching orders in the 76thminute, leaving the Boss down to
ten men and conceding a penalty. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jungo-Fujimoto-c20053 made it 4-0 from the spot in the 77th minute leaving Al Ain stranded. The woes finally ended for the UAE based outfit but not before they were completely exposed by Dragan Stojkovic’s side.
With this win, Grampus go second in the table with four points while Al Ain are still searching for their first win of the competition. Nagoya will now take on Seoul in their next game on Tuesday, the 19 of April while Al Ain will host Hangzhou Lucheng on
the same day.
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