At 13:00 Beijing time on April 10, the 8th round of the J-League, Kato Rikujiki scored the only goal of the game, and Kobe Victory Ship was defeated 1-0 by Sakura Osaka at home, continuing the league's 3 consecutive defeats + the opening 10 rounds without a win.
Iniesta, 37, started for 45 minutes before being substituted at halftime. Iniesta made two shots on goal in 45 minutes and shot 0 on target, extending the goal drought for five consecutive rounds. This season, Iniesta made 9 appearances in the J-League, scoring just one goal. However, in the face of Melbourne Victory in the AFC Champions League play-off, Iniesta scored the first record goal for the team, and eventually helped the team win 4-3, reaching the AFC Champions League for the second time in the history of the Kobe Victory Team.
In this season's AFC Champions League, the Kobe Victory Ship will meet shanghai again. Kobe Victory Ship's first AFC Champions League trip was in the 2020 season, when they reached the top 4 of the AFC Champions League as a new recruit, when they swept the Shanghai seaport with a luxurious foreign aid configuration 2-0 in the AFC Champions League quarterfinals.
Last season, Victory Kobe finished third in J United, but they hadn't won a single game in the first 10 rounds of the season. In the first 10 rounds, 4 draws and 6 losses ranked second from the bottom, which was also the first time in their team history that they did not win in the first 10 rounds.
In fact, The Kobe Victory Ship sits on the highest-paid squad in the J-League. Although they sold Japan's popular international Hirohashi Furuhashi for 5 million euros, but brought in big stars such as Boyang, Yoshiki Muto and Isamu Daisuke, they just didn't expect that such a luxurious lineup could play an embarrassing record of the opening 10 rounds of the J-League.