2018 Season first half : Player Stats

Much like the referee stats in the previous post, the general lack of data means that there’s not a great deal to take from these early season stats. I’ve done my best to get them right, but please accept my apologies if I’ve made any mistakes. These stats relate to all our games, including the league, ACL and Emperor’s Cup. There are a few things of note in here. Firstly, I was surprised that Okubo and Chinen ended up so high on our goalscorers chart, but I guess this reflects more on the fact that we’re spreading the goals around. You could also say that we’re not so free-scoring as we were last year (although I haven’t checked this, it certainly feels that way). Assists are affected by the same lack of goals, but Abe ends up top, showing that there’s a lot more to his game than putting the ball in the back of the net. After him, it’s not so surprising that Ienaga and Kengo are up there. My man of the match awards are also well spread around, but it comes as no surprise to me to see Ienaga coming out on top. He’s been consistently great this season. Long may that continue. Some bizarre team selections have skewed the appearances stats, particularly Oniki’s attempts at ‘rotation’. But it should probably also be noted that there are some players who seem to be getting the cold shoulder a bit too; Neto perhaps, Nara earlier in the season, Edu. However, injuries also probably contribute to some players not being up there, (Kobayashi in particular). On to the bookings, again we can see that the foreign players seem to pick up bookings more regularly than the Japanese ones. Admittedly, Neto and Edu play in positions that require a lot of tackling, but it’s a surprise Edu is joint top given how few games he’s played. Equally, Manabu has got two yellow cards with not a great deal of pitch time which is a bit of a surprise. And Nara has not been booked at all in fourteen starts and one sub appearance! Speaking as a big Nara fan, I didn’t expect that. So, yeah, obviously there will be a lot more to consider at the end of the season, but I hope this stats have been of some use or interest.

Stats by player

ST = games started
SB = used as substitute
US = unused sub
Y = yellow card
R = red card
G = goals
A = assists
MM = man of the match (according to me)

1. Sung-Ryong JUNG (GK)
ST 18 SB 0 US 0 Y 0 R 1 G 0 A 0 MM 0

2. Kyohei NOBORIZATO (DF)
ST 7 SB 6 US 4 Y 0 R 0 G 1 A 1 MM 0

3. Tatsuki NARA (DF)
ST 14 SB 1 US 4 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

4. Yoshito OKUBO (FW)
ST 8 SB 9 US 2 Y 1 R 0 G 3 A 0 MM 0

5. Shogo TANIGUCHI (MF)
ST 22 SB 0 US 1 Y 2 R 0 G 2 A 0 MM 0

6. Yusuke TASAKA (MF)
ST 3 SB 1 US 1 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

7. Shintaro KURUMAYA (DF)
ST 19 SB 0 US 0 Y 1 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

8. Hiroyuki ABE (MF)
ST 15 SB 3 US 1 Y 2 R 0 G 2 A 4 MM 1

9. Shuhei AKASAKI (FW)
ST 1 SB 2 US 2 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 1 MM 0

10. Ryota OSHIMA (MF)
ST 16 SB 2 US 0 Y 1 R 0 G 0 A 2 MM 1

11. Yu KOBAYASHI (FW)
ST 12 SB 4 US 0 Y 0 R 0 G 5 A 2 MM 0

14. Kengo NAKAMURA (MF)
ST 14 SB 3 US 0 Y 1 R 0 G 4 A 3 MM 2

16. Tatsuya HASEGAWA (MF)
ST 6 SB 8 US 7 Y 0 R 0 G 2 A 2 MM 2

17. Yuto TAKEOKA (DF)
ST 4 SB 2 US 9 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

18. ELSINHO (DF)
ST 16 SB 1 US 2 Y 0 R 0 G 2 A 1 MM 0

19. Kentaro MORIYA (MF)
ST 6 SB 3 US 9 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 1 MM 0

20. Kei CHINEN (FW)
ST 10 SB 6 US 6 Y 0 R 0 G 3 A 0 MM 0

21. EDUARDO NETO (MF)
ST 15 SB 1 US 0 Y 3 R 0 G 2 A 2 MM 2

22. Hokuto SHIMODA (MF)
ST 1 SB 0 US 2 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

23. EDUARDO (DF)
ST 7 SB 0 US 9 Y 3 R 0 G 1 A 0 MM 0

24. Shunsuke ANDO (GK)
ST 0 SB 0 US 3 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

25. Hidemasa MORITA (MF)
ST 10 SB 9 US 4 Y 1 R 0 G 0 A 1 MM 2

26. Jefferson TABINAS (DF)
ST 0 SB 0 US 0 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

27. Yuto SUZUKI (FW)
ST 1 SB 3 US 1 Y 0 R 0 G 2 A 1 MM 1

28. Yasuto WAKIZAKA (MF)
ST 1 SB 1 US 0 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

29. Michael James FITZGERALD (DF)
ST 1 SB 0 US 0 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

30. Shota ARAI (GK)
ST 5 SB 0 US 19 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

31. William POPP (GK)
ST 0 SB 0 US 1 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

32. Ao TANAKA (MF)
ST 0 SB 0 US 1 Y 0 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

37. Manabu SAITO (MF)
ST 2 SB 5 US 0 Y 2 R 0 G 0 A 0 MM 0

41. Akihiro IENAGA (MF)
ST 19 SB 1 US 2 Y 2 R 0 G 3 A 3 MM 3


Most Goals
1. KOBAYASHI Yu - 5
2. NAKAMURA Kengo - 4
3. CHINEN Kei - 3
3. IENAGA Akihiro - 3 
3. OKUBO Yoshito - 3
 
Most Assists
1. ABE Hiroyuki - 4
2. IENAGA Akihiro - 3
2. NAKAMURA Kengo - 3
4. EDUARDO NETO - 2
4. HASEGAWA Tatsuya - 2
4. KOBAYASHI Yu - 2
4. OSHIMA Ryota - 2

Most Starts

1. TANIGUCHI Shogo - 22
2. IENAGA Akihiro -19
2. KURUMAYA Shintaro - 19
4. JUNG Sung-Ryong - 18
5. ELSINHO - 16
5. OSHIMA Ryota - 16

Most Man Of The Match awards

1. IENAGA Akihiro - 3
2. EDUARDO NETO - 2
2. HASEGAWA Tatsuya - 2
2. MORITA Hidemasa - 2
2. NAKAMURA Kengo -2

Most Yellow Cards (Two yellows in one game not counted here but added to the red column)

1. EDUARDO - 3
1. EDUARDO NETO - 3
3. ABE Hiroyuki - 2
3. IENAGA Akihiro - 2
3. SAITO Manabu - 2
3. TANIGUCHI Shogo - 2

Most Red Cards

1. JUNG Sung-Ryong - 1