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Gamba Osaka 2-0 Melbourne V. - April 23, 2008 / AFC Champions League 2008

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AFC Champions League 2008 - Round 4 - Group G

Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium - Suita - Japan

April 23, 2008

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Gamba Osaka

Japan

2 - 0

Melbourne V.

Australia

Masato Yamazaki

31'

Masato Yamazaki

57'

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31' - Goal Masato Yamazaki31

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46' - Substitution Kaz Phonesank Pataftais substituted by Tom Pondeljak

57' - Goal Masato Yamazaki57

68' - Substitution Leigh Broxhamis substituted by Steve Pantelidis

75' - Substitution Billy Celeskiis substituted by Leandro Love

82' - Substitution Baréis substituted by Shu Kurata82

88' - Substitution Michihiro Yasudais substituted by Hiroki Mizumoto88

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Gamba Osaka

2 - 0

Melbourne V.

Gamba Osaka Melbourne V.

Team line-ups

Gamba Osaka

Matsuyo

Naoki Matsuyo

Japan

B.date09/04/1974

Age34 years

H1m81

positionGoalkeeper

Nakazawa

Sota Nakazawa

Japan

B.date26/10/1982

Age25 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Yamaguchi

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Japan

B.date17/04/1978

Age30 years

H1m79

positionDefender

Yasuda88

Michihiro Yasuda

Japan

B.date20/12/1987

Age20 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

Hashimoto

Hideo Hashimoto

Japan

B.date21/05/1979

Age28 years

H1m73

positionDefensive Midfielder

Futagawa

Takahiro Futagawa

Japan

B.date27/06/1980

Age27 years

H1m68

positionMidfield

Myojin

Tomokazu Myojin

Japan

B.date24/01/1978

Age30 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

Endo

Yasuhito Endo

Japan

B.date28/01/1980

Age28 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Lucas

Severino Lucas

Brazil

B.date03/01/1979

Age29 years

H1m84

positionOffensive Midfielder

Baré82

Baré

Brazil

B.date18/01/1982

Age26 years

H1m90

positionForward

Yamazaki3157

Masato Yamazaki

Japan

B.date04/12/1981

Age26 years

H1m74

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Naoki Matsuyo		34	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sota Nakazawa		25	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Satoshi Yamaguchi		30	179	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Michihiro Yasuda	88	20	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hideo Hashimoto		28	171	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Takahiro Futagawa		27	182	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomokazu Myojin		30	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yasuhito Endo		28	173	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Severino Lucas		29	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Baré	82	26	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Masato Yamazaki	3157	26	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Melbourne V.

1 Theoklitos

Michael Theoklitos

Australia

B.date11/02/1981

Age27 years

H1m86

positionGoalkeeper

2 Muscat

Kevin Muscat

Australia

B.date07/08/1973

Age34 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

21 Ryall

Sebastian Ryall

Australia

B.date18/07/1989

Age18 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

12 Vargas

Rodrigo Vargas

Australia

B.date20/10/1978

Age29 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

7 Kemp

Matthew Kemp

Australia

B.date08/08/1980

Age27 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

18 Broxham68

Leigh Broxham

Australia

B.date13/01/1988

Age20 years

H1m70

positionCentre Midfield

24 Celeski75

Billy Celeski

Australia

B.date14/07/1985

Age22 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

13 Patafta46

Kaz Phonesank Patafta

Australia

B.date25/10/1988

Age19 years

H1m74

positionPlaymaker

14 Caceres

Adrian Caceres

Australia

B.date10/01/1982

Age26 years

H1m78

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

22 Ward

Nick Ward

Australia

B.date24/03/1985

Age23 years

H1m83

positionPlaymaker

9 Allsopp

Danny Allsopp

Australia

B.date10/08/1978

Age29 years

H1m90

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Michael Theoklitos		27	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Kevin Muscat		34	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Sebastian Ryall		18	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Rodrigo Vargas		29	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	D	Matthew Kemp		27	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Leigh Broxham	68	20	25	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Billy Celeski	75	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Kaz Phonesank Patafta	46	19	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Adrian Caceres		26	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Nick Ward		23	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Danny Allsopp		29	65	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Hiroki Mizumoto	88	22	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Shu Kurata	82	19	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
6	D	Steve Pantelidis	68	24	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	M	Tom Pondeljak	46	32	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Leandro Love	75	22	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Naoki Matsuyo

Yosuke Fujigaya

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Kaz Phonesank Patafta

Steven Pace

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Akira Nishino

224

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

54 %

Nishino vs Melbourne V.

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 23, 2008

Nishino vs Merrick

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 23, 2008

Manager

Age

Match num

Ernie Merrick

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

33 %

Merrick vs Gamba Osaka

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 23, 2008

Merrick vs Nishino

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on April 23, 2008

Referee

Ali Al Badwawi

2 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Gamba Osaka4 matches	General total	Melbourne V.3 matches	0 victory	0 draw	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Gamba Osaka1 match	Season total	Melbourne V.1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on March 01, 2011					Latest figure on March 01, 2011

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Key figures

Gamba Osaka keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw in AFC Champions League running (since 19/03/2008). It's a record streak. The first of history

Gamba Osaka keeps its 3 consecutive wins in AFC Champions League running (since 19/03/2008). It's a record streak. The first of history

Gamba Osaka keeps its 4 matches with at least one goal scored in AFC Champions League running (since 12/03/2008). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 17 key stats

General ranking

	1	Gamba Osaka	10 pts	4 rd
	2	Chonburi	5 pts	4 rd
+1	3	Chunnam Dragons	4 pts	4 rd
-1	4	Melbourne Victory	3 pts	4 rd

General ranking

	1	Gamba Osaka	10 pts	4 rd
	2	Chonburi	5 pts	4 rd
+1	3	Chunnam Dragons	4 pts	4 rd
-1	4	Melbourne Victory	3 pts	4 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DGamba Osaka 1-1 Vissel Kobe24/11/2007

DGamba Osaka 0-0 JEF United08/03/2008

DGamba Osaka 1-1 Chonburi12/03/2008

VGamba Osaka 2-1 Tokyo Verdy30/03/2008

VGamba Osaka 2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse05/04/2008

DGamba Osaka 2-2 Albirex Niigata13/04/2008

Overall

VGamba Osaka 2-1 Tokyo Verdy30/03/2008

VOita Trinita 1-2 Gamba Osaka02/04/2008

VGamba Osaka 2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse05/04/2008

VMelbourne Victory 3-4 Gamba Osaka09/04/2008

DGamba Osaka 2-2 Albirex Niigata13/04/2008

DKashima Antlers 0-0 Gamba Osaka19/04/2008

Current form

Away

LBrisbane Roar 1-0 Melbourne Victory16/11/2007

LPerth Glory 3-1 Melbourne Victory02/12/2007

VCentral Coast Mariners 2-5 Melbourne Victory31/12/2007

VBrisbane Roar 1-2 Melbourne Victory05/01/2008

DSydney FC 2-2 Melbourne Victory20/01/2008

LChonburi 3-1 Melbourne Victory19/03/2008

Overall

VBrisbane Roar 1-2 Melbourne Victory05/01/2008

VMelbourne Victory 3-0 Wellington Phoenix11/01/2008

DSydney FC 2-2 Melbourne Victory20/01/2008

VMelbourne Victory 2-0 Jeonnam Dragons12/03/2008

LChonburi 3-1 Melbourne Victory19/03/2008

LMelbourne Victory 3-4 Gamba Osaka09/04/2008

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	10	7
Winless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	4	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	1	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	2
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	1	3
Scoring streak	5	11
Conceding streak	8	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

1	General ranking (Competition total)	3
4	General ranking (Home / Away)	4
812	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	1054
3	FBDB index ranking (National)	3

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

3	Number of games (Competition total)	3
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	1
2	Victories (Competition total)	1
0	Victories (Home / Away)	0
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
1	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	2
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

9	Goals scored (Competition total)	6
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
7	Goals conceded (Competition total)	7
1	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	3
3	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
2.33	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	2.33
1	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	3

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
0	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
3	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
1	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
1-1 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-3 (1 times)

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	1
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Severino Lucas	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Danny Allsopp
Severino Lucas	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Danny Allsopp
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Kevin Muscat
Takahiro Futagawa	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	3 goals during the last 2 matches	Danny Allsopp

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

3 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

4 gf

3 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

3 gf

4 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

3 gf

4 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 3	April 09, 2008
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

April 09, 2008 - AFC Champions League 2008

Melbourne V.

3 - 4

Gamba Osaka logo Gamba Osaka

Best historical scorers against Melbourne V.

Takahiro Futagawa	1 goal	2008 - 2008
Severino Lucas	1 goal	2008 - 2008
Satoshi Yamaguchi	1 goal	2008 - 2008
Baré	1 goal	2008 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/04/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Gamba Osaka

	Danny Allsopp	2 goals	2008 - 2008
	Rodrigo Vargas	1 goal	2008 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/04/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Melbourne V.

Hideo Hashimoto	1 match	2008 - 2008
Yohei Fukumoto	1 match	2008 - 2008
Severino Lucas	1 match	2008 - 2008
Sota Nakazawa	1 match	2008 - 2008
Satoshi Yamaguchi	1 match	2008 - 2008
Takahiro Futagawa	1 match	2008 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 09/04/2008. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Gamba Osaka

Sebastian Ryall	1 match	2008 - 2008
Billy Celeski	1 match	2008 - 2008
Daniel Vasilevski	1 match	2008 - 2008
Kevin Muscat	1 match	2008 - 2008
Matthew Kemp	1 match	2008 - 2008
Rodrigo Vargas	1 match	2008 - 2008