Football: Reo Nishiguchi strikes again as Tanjong Pagar stun Tampines 4-2
SINGAPORE - Reo Nishiguchi and Tanjong Pagar United's hot beginning to the 2022 Singapore Premier League (SPL) season forged ahead with Saturday (May 28) with a 4-2 triumph over Tampines Rovers.
The Japanese forward played a part in three of his side's four objectives at the Jurong East Stadium, scoring two times and scoring a help.
The success places Tanjong Pagar third in the eight-group SPL table after 11 matches, level on focuses with Albirex Niigata albeit the Japanese side have played a game less.
Tampines, in fourth, have 15 focuses from 10 matches.
The Jaguars have kept on going from one solidarity to another in spite of being tipped by a lot of people to be basement occupants in the SPL this season.
What's more, their ascent has been exemplified by 24-year-old Nishiguchi. With his most recent support, he has now scored 11 objectives, outperforming his best count of nine objectives in the SPL which came last season as the Jaguars completed fifth.
Nishiguchi was anxious to stamp his imprint on procedures from start off and required only five minutes to find the rear of the net when he twisted a work from right inside the case past goalkeeper Syazwan Buhari.
In the 21st, he turned supplier for his fourth help of the time, as he set up Rusyaidi Salime, who jabbed home Tanjong Pagar's second.
One moment later, Tampines divided the shortfall when Firdaus Kasman diverted in from short proximity after the Jaguars neglected to clear from a corner.
Nishiguchi then got his second of the night in the 32nd moment when he jumped on a free ball in the crate and applied the completion. Zehrudin Mehmedovic gave the Stags a help in the 36th moment just for Shodai Nishikawa to reestablish the Jaguars' two-objective lead only two minutes after the fact.
The objectives tightened of in the final part however the Jaguars clutched secure their most memorable win over Tampines since their re-visitation of the SPL in 2020.
Tampines, who completed fourth last season and qualified for the Asian Football Confederation Cup to be held not long from now, have now experienced consecutive losses.
At night's other installation at the Hougang Stadium, Balestier Khalsa were crushed 3-1 by Hougang United.
The SPL will continue on June 18 following the worldwide break.
Examination
Ten matches into the season, Tampines are still looking for the tricky clean sheet, having surrendered 23 objectives in this period.
Indeed, their young safeguard couldn't adapt to the resistance's senior players. Ryaan Sanizal, 19, Irfan Najeeb, 22, and Amirul Haikal, 22, all began as a feature of the Stags' backline however were destroyed by the Jaguars' front two of Nishikawa, 28, and Nishiguchi.
Tampines are the main group, alongside formative crew Young Lions, who still can't seem to keep a perfect sheet in 2022 albeit the last option have played just seven matches up until this point. Their last shutout came in the second-last match of the 2021 season, when they held Albirex to a 0-0 draw last September.
Tampines mentor Gavin Lee has put an accentuation on sure going after football, yet on the off chance that he believes his side should fit the bill for mainland rivalry again this season, protection requirements to turn into the need.
