On the evening of April 25, 2022, Beijing time, the fourth round of the AFC Champions League group stage continued, Yokohama Mariners vs Sydney FC. As a result, in the first half, the Yokohama Mariners scored two goals in 5 minutes, and in the second half the Yokohama Mariners received a red card, but sydney FC conceded another goal in the last minute on the premise of wasting at least four or five good opportunities, and finally lost 3-0.
Currently in the AFC Champions League group stage, the Yokohama Mariners are second in the group with 2 wins and 1 loss and 6 points, and Sydney FC is 3rd in the group with 2 draws and 1 loss and 2 points. The Yokohama Mariners lost 0-1 to Jeonbuk Hyundai in the second round, while the Sydney FC team was a groundbreaking win, especially the upset was forced to draw 1-1 by Vietnamese team Jia Lai Huang Ying, which was also a big upset.
In the starting lineup of this game, the Japanese ball arranged a 4231 formation, the total value of the starters was 7.82 million euros, and the Sydney FC team due to the previous severe attrition, facing a team like Yokohama, should have shrunk the defense, but the previous three rounds of unbeaten, there is no way back, so they arranged the 4222 formation.
After the game began, sydney FC, which wanted to grab the start, attacked aggressively, but under the pass control advantage of the Yokohama Mariners, it seemed a little confused.
In the 6th minute, Yokohama-level Hirota Mizunuma passed the ball into the penalty area on the left side of the field, and Tomoki Sitō scored with a header under the defense of numerous Sydney FC defenders to take a 1-0 lead.
However, this is not the end of the day, 4 minutes later, after the Yokohama Mariners crossed from the right, Takuma Nishimura showed a "Marseque slalom" after taking the ball inside the box, and finally the left foot shot was equalized to give the Yokohama Mariners a 2-0 lead over Sydney FC.
The two teams were 2-0 in the first half, and in the 60th minute of the second half, the Yokohama Mariners suffered a blow, and Ryotaro Kakuda, as the last defender, brought down the Sydney players with fouls and was eventually shown a red card.
However, the Yokohama Mariners, who fought one less battle, were not affected at all. Neither in terms of possession or offensive strength, there is no downwind, and you can't even see that Sydney FC has one more person, as if the Yokohama Mariners are one less. It can be seen how big the gap between the two teams is.
In the 86th minute of the second half, the Yokohama Mariners once again played a delicate combination, Iwata Tomoki crossed from the bottom, and Brazilian foreign player Anderson Lopez received the ball and pushed the empty goal to make the score 3-0.
The victorious Yokohama Mariners temporarily surpassed Jeonbuk Hyundai in no. 1, but this evening Jeonbuk will play against Vietnamese team Jia Lai Huang Ying, and the victory should be reasonable, so the first place of the Yokohama Mariners cannot last long. The Sydney FC team still has 2 points and basically lost hope of qualifying.
In this game, the Yokohama Mariners set 2 new records. First, Yokohama has achieved an unbeaten record of 33 wins and 1 draw in the previous four games against Sydney FC; second, Sydney FC has created the worst all-time record in the AFC Champions League, having previously suffered 3 draws and 1 loss in the AFC Champions League in 2019, and now the team has fallen to a shameful record of 2 draws and 2 losses.