On Saturday 2 March, the U-19 Japan Women's National Team faced the U-19 Thailand Women's National Team in their first match of the JENESYS 2018 Japan-ASEAN U-19 Women Football Tournament.

The match kicked-off under a warm weather where the temperature rose up to 25 degrees Celsius. It was the Thailand side who was the aggressor in the early minutes, as Japan was forced to be in the defensive end. Japan’s first opportunity came from a build-up play initiated by their goalkeeper FUKUDA Shiori in the seventh minute, as the ball was connected from NAKAO Momo to TAKAYAMA Nohara, but the midfielder was called offside. Three minutes later, Nakao and FUJISHIRO Maho played a give and go before delivering the ball to KAMIYA Chiina, but the forward’s shot went wide from the target.

Despite ending the first half scoreless, Japan continued to show their dominance in the second half. In the 35th minute, the deadlock was broken when MIURA Haruka received the ball from Kamiya, before she dribbled into the penalty box and fired a shot into the net......

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