Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 1 Cerezo Osaka
Dear Oniki,
Here's what you've been looking for but have been unable to find, although it's been staring most of us in the face for a while.
JUNG
MAGUINHO, NARA, TANIGUCHI, KURUMAYA
TANAKA, SHIMODA/YAMAMURA (anyone but MORITA right now)
KOBAYASHI, IENAGA, ABE
CHINEN
You're welcome!
Neil
PS Some extra thoughts added in the comments.
Team
GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 27. SUZUKI Yuto
DF 3. NARA Tatsuki
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei
MF 25. TANAKA Ao
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 8. ABE Hiroyuki
FW 20. CHINEN Kei
Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota
DF 7 KURUMAYA Shintaro
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (on for ABE 88')
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu (on for CHINEN 73')
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (on for NAKAMURA 80')
MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 44. CAIO CESAR
My Frontale Man Of The Match
NARA Tatsuki
Goals
KAKITANI (Cerezo) 22' 0-1
CHINEN (Frontale) 49' 1-1
Highlights
I wish I'd had the confidence to just leave this blog post as it is, but I feel it needs a little explanation. This was another rotten performance and I have no confidence that Oniki will do anything about this terrible form. I don’t want to single out Suzuki as he’s not a right back, but he shouldn’t be playing there from the start of a game. The news that Maguinho is not even taking part in practice games during training is pretty chilling, yet unsurprising. Morita is potentially a great player but has been making mistake after mistake for game after game. Could this be a season too far for Kengo? He’s not justifying his selection at the moment yet seems undroppable. The horrendous corner mix up around the 23rd minute is yet another sign of that. Leandro Damiao should probably be starting but I have given Chinen the nod as whilst he’s scoring he doesn’t deserve to be dropped. He wasn’t as effective in this game as he was against Matsumoto though. Oniki’s subs come too late and aren’t working. He’s run out of ideas, perhaps never really had that many ideas in the first place.
ReplyDeleteSure, we’re always terrible against Cerezo, but when they’re as bad as they were in this game, time wasting from the start of the game, and our best creative attacking passes are coming from Nara, who presumably Oniki will drop soon, we’ve got big problems. We’re losing touch in the league already and it’s painful to watch.