This is Vasco's debut Serie A fixture and one they will see as very winnable and be "going for" with three very tough looking fixtures to follow over the next 10 days.

 

Sport opened with a 3-2 defeat of Ceara on Saturday ahead of which my notes included..........

 

 

 

 

 

Last Wednesday Donetsk hosted Wolfsburg and I wrote ...............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPAL visited a Verona side in midweek who had achieved all their targets for the season , had not won in 7, or kept a clean sheet in 12 and who were already mentally lying on a beach somewhere, and yet they lost 3-0. They were two down after 11 minutes, conceded the third early in the second half and SPAL did nothing to change the opinion that they had waved the white flag on the 19-20 campaign , ahead of that game I noted .......

 

 

 

 

Kawasaki Frontale    +59 (92-33) 25-4

Gamba Osaka          +1 ( 59-58) 11-9

*Nagoya Grampus     -2  (39-41)  10-4

FC Tokyo                  -10 (48-58) 17-14