Vs Sagan Tosu (home) 15/8/18 - J League match 22

Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 0 Sagan Tosu

Another missed game for me, and once again I watched it on the internet, this time on a slightly larger screen, but with worse picture quality. Presumably the presence of Torres contributed to the fact that the game was a sellout, but then again, our home games have been getting pretty big crowds recently anyway. You’ve got to look at this result as a huge missed opportunity. Sanfrecce drew and we fluffed the chance to claw back some ground on them. We totally dominated the game but couldn’t score. We do tend to struggle against Tosu, but we really should have put the ball in the net at some stage given the amount of chances we had. If we come close in the league this year, we’ll have to look back on this one as a major stumble. Poor Manabu missed a real sitter, but I don’t want to point the finger at anyone in particular as there were plenty of other missed shots and plenty of shots that could have been mistaken for back passes. Torres apparently said we were the best team he’s played in Japan, but that doesn’t exactly help us make up points on Sanfrecce. All this adds to the significance of this weekend's game away to Sanfrecce which will now either really ramp up the title race excitement or more or less spell the end of our challenge. Sure it’s still relatively early in the season but there’s only so many chances to catch them that were going to get and we can't keep fluffing our lines.

Team 

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG

DF 18. ELSINHO

DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo 

DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro

DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei

MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota

MF 25. MORITA Hidemasa

MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro

MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo

MF 8.  ABE Hiroyuki

FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

Subs 
GK 30. ARAI Shota

DF 17. TAKEOKA Yuto 

MF 19. MORIYA Kentaro 

FW 20. CHINEN Kei (on for IENAGA 88')

MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto (on for NAKAMURA 81') 

DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES

MF 37. SAITO Manabu (on for ABE 81') 

Goals

None

Highlights

The Frontale youtube channel usually has longer highlights provided by DAZN, but given that a previous 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. And we have that extra footage video again at the bottom.