The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle
Match19 Sep 2026
Jubilo Iwata taken apart
1‑4 to Kashiwa Reysol, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Jubilo Iwata
Jan Van Den Bergh was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Both jobs done by João Victor — 7.48
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 7.48, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ko Matsubara 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Jubilo Iwata dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Jubilo Iwata training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Giménez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Matheus Peixoto dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Takuro Ezaki could not find anything
5.78. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The referee tires of Yuri Lara
Fouls conceded: 9. Some of it was commitment and some of it was frustration, and the free-kick count did not distinguish between the two.
In brief
- Market Koshiro Sumi leaves for nothing
- Market Tsubasa Nishizawa leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Poramet Arjvirai