The Vissel Kobe Gazette
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Takashi Inui, 38, rolls back the years — 8.70
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.70 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Daiya Maekawa
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gotoku Sakai in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vissel Kobe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Daiju Sasaki runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Oct 2026
Vissel Kobe find a way past Yokohama F. Marinos
Yokohama F. Marinos made Vissel Kobe work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Caetano gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad Alfonso Blanco dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Yuya Osako could have had three
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Takashi Inui