The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Sota Nakamura runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mauro Ruggiero out for 75 days
The medical room confirms 75 days on the sidelines for Mauro Ruggiero, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Sanfrecce Hiroshima
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sanfrecce Hiroshima are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mutsuki Kato falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match5 Sep 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Sanfrecce Hiroshima against Kashiwa Reysol
1‑2 to Kashiwa Reysol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ryo Germain 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mutsuki Kato named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Mutsuki Kato is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A day to forget for Naoki Maeda
Marked 5.65, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Player ratings Sota Koshimichi could not find anything
- Market The Sota Nakamura question follows Sanfrecce Hiroshima around
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Marcos Junior