At 22:00 Beijing time on April 22, the third round of the AFC Champions League group stage Group J, Yasuya Jiki also scored twice, Akira Daisuke, Reiyo Osaki, Yuta Goya and Hayashi Komko scored 1 goal each, and Kobe Victory Ship defeated Chiang Rai United 6-0 to win 2 consecutive wins in the opening round.
Because Shanghai Harbour has withdrawn from this season's AFC Champions League group stage, only three teams are left in Group J: Kobe Victory Ship, Jiezhi and Chiang Rai United.
Kobe Victory Ship bye in the first round of the AFC Champions League group stage, but won 2-1 in the second round against Jiezhi, and defeated Chiang Rai United 6-0 in this round, and won the first place in the group with 6 points in the opening two rounds.
This 6-0 game allowed Kobe Victory Ship to create the biggest victory in the AFC Champions League in the history of the team, after they had only netted 2 goals in the AFC Champions League.
In the 6-0 win over Chiang Rai United, the 37-year-old Iniesta continued to be absent, not playing in the first two games of the AFC Champions League. However, as the most expensive team in the J-League (with a total value of 24 million euros), Kobe Victory ship can easily win two consecutive wins in in the absence of Iniesta. Puzzlingly, Kobe Victory Ship has not tasted a single victory in the first 10 rounds of the J-League start, drawing 4 and losing 6, ranking at the bottom of the league.
The 31-year-old former Barca prodigy Bojan came off the bench to deliver an assist, but he made eight appearances for Victory Kobe in all competitions this season and still failed to score a single goal.
The 31-year-old Japan international, Daisuke, has also scored 0 goals in eight appearances in the J-League this season, this time against Chiang Rai United in the AFC Champions League. Of course, he scored a double against Melbourne Victory in the AFC Champions League play-offs, a goal he scored for his third of the season.