Flying Kiwis. He'll need to play better & quickly by the sound of it.
Believe it or not, that right there was the first league appearance that Michael Woud has made since he moved to Japan. It was January 2022 when he transferred from Willem II to Kyoto Sanga and in the subsequent 20 months it’s been eight cup appearances and nothing else. But good things come to those who wait and now that he’s popped up on loan at Ventforet Kofu he’s in line to get some Asian Champions League footy.
Believe it or not, that right there was the first league appearance that Michael Woud has made since he moved to Japan. It was January 2022 when he transferred from Willem II to Kyoto Sanga and in the subsequent 20 months it’s been eight cup appearances and nothing else. But good things come to those who wait and now that he’s popped up on loan at Ventforet Kofu he’s in line to get some Asian Champions League footy.
Hopefully, at least. Kofu qualified for that one by winning the Emperor’s Cup as a second division team but their usual starter Kohei Kawata is out injured. This got covered last week. You know the story. We don’t know quite how long Kawata will be out for but it’s good news for Woud that he was straight into the starting lineup for a 3-2 loss against Remofa Yamaguchi. Wasn’t a great performance. He leaked one inside five minutes, a bit too deep at his near post, and the second goal occurred after he came out for a high ball and didn’t claim it. Then he let in a 90th minute winner. Not much he coulda done about it but still. Fingers crossed he gets a run of games to get his rhythm back.
Oh and, by the way, they did the draw for the ACL and Ventforet Kofu are in the same group as Melbourne City. That oughta be fun. Not quite as much fun as if they’d gotten Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr but close enough. The other two clubs in the group are Zhejiang (China) and Buriram United (Thailand).