Today is also a sunny day in Germany.
After breakfast, after spending a brief time, we visited Heidelberg University, founded in 1386 and the oldest university in Germany.
It is said that there are as many as 56 Nobel Prize winners from this university.
I had lunch at the university cafeteria and listened to an explanation about the university and a talk about sports management.
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The opponent for the last match of the Germany expedition is FSV Offenbach from the U19 BUNDESLIGA Division 2.
With a large number of spectators watching, we experienced the culture of enjoying soccer across all ages, including the performance of the opposing club and children having fun kicking the ball on the same pitch as the players warming up before the match.
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When the match kicks off, the opponent moves the ball in a low position, aiming for the back of Tokyo's defense with long balls.
As a result, it is difficult to apply pressure on the ball and establish a rhythm.
Tokyo creates several chances with Hara's runs behind the defense, but fails to score.
In the 21st minute, they were caught behind the DF line and allowed the opening goal.
After that, they began to carefully move the ball using the opponent's gaps, and in the 39th minute, Haru received the ball between the DF lines during the build-up from the DF line and struck it with his right foot into the goal.
Let's turn around the first half like this.
In the second half, with a changed lineup, we moved the ball quickly and effectively inserted vertical passes at the right moments, pushing the opponent back.
◈At the 60th minute, Kobayashi received a ball from Yoshida and scored with a left-footed shot to turn the game around.
However, in the 65th minute, we conceded a goal from a corner kick at the near post, bringing the score level.
Immediately after that, Yokoyama broke through with a long ball from Sakaguchi and scored to take the lead again.
In the 77th minute, Okaniwa calmly scored to make it 4-2 after running diagonally onto a ball from Yoshida.
Tokyo continued to actively attack and showed a fighting spirit until the end, but the score remained unchanged, ending at 4-2.
Crowned the last match of the Germany expedition with a victory.
This trip to Germany ended with 3 wins and 2 losses.
The players were able to experience many new experiences.
I hope you will keep this in mind and fight with a high level of awareness so that you can apply it to the Premier League starting next weekend.