Vs FC Tokyo (home) 5/8/17, J-League match 20

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 1 FC Tokyo

Another game I missed and it seems like I missed another disappointing performance. I haven't even  seen the goals yet. I'm just putting this up here as there's probably nothing I can say that you won't know equally from watching the highlights video. By the way, thanks to Kaoru for the photo. From the sound of it on twitter, both teams thought they could/should have won it. I heard that Kengo had a stinker which is a bit worrying. I heard this from a big Kengo fan as well. Potentially a bit confusing is the fact that we had a rotten game last week and yet still started with the same eleven this week. I'm all for giving people a chance to make up for their mistakes, but I think it's probably more a case of us not having much of a clue what to do when we get past our best eleven. So now, we've dropped down to fifth and are eight points off the top, but with a game in hand. We really need to start winning again soon though. My final word on the game will be the fact that once again we had a load of shots and dominated possession (23 shots and 61% possession). The crucial thing is that we only had five shots on target. This really is not good enough.

Next up is Albirex Niigata away on Wednesday and then Kashima Antlers at home next Sunday. Fingers crossed. Oh, and go Frontale!

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG

DF 18. ELSINHO

DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo

DF 23. EDUARDO

DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro

MF 21. EDUARDO NETO (Yellow card 53')

MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota

MF 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo

MF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei

FW 8. ABE Hiroyuki

Subs 
GK 30. ARAI Shota
DF 3. NARA Tatsuki
MF 6. TASAKA Yusuke
FW 9. MORIMOTO Takayuki (on for NOBORIZATO 78')
FW 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (on for ABE 82')
MF 19. MORIYA Kentaro (on for NAKAMURA 72')
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro

Goals 

 

NAKAJIMA (Tokyo) 49' 0-1
TANIGUCHI (Frontale) 89' 1-1


Highlights

The Frontale youtube channel usually has longer highlights provided by DAZN, but given that last year's highlights got wiped when the broadcaster got changed, I'm going to stick with the official J League ones. But you can watch the longer highlights here if you want (not available just yet, sorry...). There's also now some other match related content exclusive to the Frontale channel, so that's the bottom video.