Vs Shanghai SIPG (home) 8/5/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 5

  Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 2 Shanghai SIPG

Let’s not beat about the bush here. I didn’t see this game due to work, so I’m not going to waste anyone’s time by commenting on some dodgy highlights I saw. The fact is, we’re still just about alive in the competition but need to beat Sydney in the final game to progress whilst relying on Ulsan not losing to Shanghai. Ulsan are already through as group winners so have absolutely nothing to play for. And Sydney haven’t lost at home in the ACL this year. So not exactly full of hope. I’ll save the dissection of the failures of this campaign for the next ACL post (if we don’t qualify for the next round). It was nice to Leandro Damiao get a chance and score. It wasn’t nice to see us concede two pretty poor goals, both of which seemed to pit Nobori against Hulk, which doesn’t exactly seem like a fair fight. The stats say that we had 13 shots but only got three on target which doesn’t really seem good enough and as it turned out, wasn’t good enough for us to take three points. Onwards and hopefully upwards to Shimizu away on Sunday.

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 17. MAWATARI Kazuaki
DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo (Yellow card 88')
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa (Yellow card 58')
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota
MF 19. SAITO Manabu
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya

FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (Yellow card 63')

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota

FW 20. CHINEN Kei

MF 25. TANAKA Ao

DF 26. MAGUINHO

MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto (on for MAWATARI 78')

MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto (on for HASEGAWA 78')
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya (on for MORITA 84')

Goals

HULK (Shanghai) 6' 0-1
LEANDRO DAMIAO (Frontale) 13' 1-1
TANIGUCHI (Frontale) 66' 2-1
HULK (Shanghai) 71' 2-2 


Highlights