Vs Kashima Antlers 1/1/17 - Emperor's Cup Final

 

Kashima Antlers 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale (AET)

Another short post. Hand still injured so typing is slow and difficult, stream of the game cut out a lot so difficult to make any real judgements on the game, enthusiasm low… Season is now finished, goodbye to Okubo and Kazama and probably some others. Guess the real transfer business starts now. From my limited viewing of the game, feel like we put up a decent fight against a Kashima team who know how to win titles and were once again very physical and fouly. I’ll add the highlights when they are up and I have a long post summing up individual players’ performances this season, so they’ll be some more on here soon. But until then we can feel disappointed but hopefully inspired that we can push on next season and change some of these second places into firsts and pick up our first ever trophy.

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 6. TASAKA Yusuke
DF 23. EDUARDO (Yellow card 113')

DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo

DF 20. KURUMAYA Shintaro (Yellow card 45+1') 
MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota

MF 18. ELSINHO

MF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei 
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu
FW 13. OKUBO Yoshito

 Subs
GK 30. ARAI Shota
FW 9. MORIMOTO Takayuki (on for OSHIMA 105')
MF 19. MORIYA Kentaro (on for TASAKA 98')

MF 22. NAKANO Yoshihiro

FW 26. MIYOSHI Koji (on for NOBORIZATO 46')
MF 27. OTSUKA Shohei

DF 28. ITAKURA Ko

Goals  
YAMAMOTO (Kashima) 42' 1-0
KOBAYASHI (Frontale) 54' 1-1
FABRICIO (Kashima) 94' 2-1

Highlights

No handy highlights package for this game that no Frontale fan probably ever wants to see again. The only decent quality video I could find is this 3 hour monstrosity to relive the whole horrible game in full. Can't imagine I'll be watching it, but if you're feeling masochistic, be my guest.