The streak continues

The good news is that the unbeaten run has reached 5 league matches and one cup victory. The last time the Reds tasted defeat was over a month ago, on the 7th of May, a 3-1 defeat to Kashiwa. Now time for the bad news; the 5 game undefeated run in league matches consist of 5 draws and 0 wins. This means that we've only earned 5 points out of a possible 15 points. We could have got 6 points if we lost 3 of the 5 matches and only won 2.

Now this got me thinking; which would you prefer? An undefeated run that reaps you only 5 points, or 6 points but win less then half of the matches played? I know I would have preferred the later option. Why? Because if that was what transpired we wouldn't be in the drop zone right now. Yes things could be worst; we could be on an 8 game losing streak and we are equal on points with Kashima and Cerezo Osaka, but at the end of the day we need points.

Today's opposition was Hiroshima are third on the J-1 table and most didn't give us a chance but it doesn't mean I'm satisfied with the draw. We had our chances but wasn't able to make anything of it. It has been the problem for us this year, we just haven't been able to convert possession into goals. I guess it's good that our defense this year is fairly solid. The combination of Spiranovic and Nagata is as good as we've had over the past few years and I think they should take a majority of the credit that we have been in the position we're in (not losing games). All we need now is for our offence to click.

A positive to come from the Hiroshima game is seeing both Naoki Yamada and Umesaki coming off the bench, seeing some game time and most importantly didn't come off injured. Seeing some depth in the squad is very encouraging.

This is how we lined up against Hiroshima.

GK: Kato
DF: Takahashi; Spiranovic; Nagata; Hirakawa
MF: Keita; Yamada (No); Kashiwagi
FW: Richardes; Tatsuya; Edmilson

Subs
68min Kashiwagi > Naoki
76min Tatsuya > Mazola
90+2min Edmilson > Umesaki

Up next we have Shimizu at home on Saturday, but unfortunately Genki is still away on international duty. I'm still believing that our win is due soon and believe it will be this weekend! WE ARE REDS!!!