Nagoya Grampus 2 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale (2-4 on agg.)
No messing around with this blog post. Thanks to the fact that the Shinkansen service from Nagoya was curtailed due to an incoming Typhoon, we had to cancel our trip to Nagoya. Which is a shame, as I was looking forward to this match. It was annoying as the previous day there had been some talk of them bringing the kick off forward due to the weather. But presumably as the typhoon changed course and wasn’t going to hit Nagoya, they changed their mind. Screw the away fans who won’t be able to get home. Instead, I watched it on a dodgy stream which kept cutting out and finally gave up shortly before our second goal. I’m not going to say much as I don’t think watching the game like this qualifies me to do so. I was surprised that Oniki made so many changes after the first leg, our first win in seven games. Although let’s be honest, it wasn’t that surprising. If it had been another manager, maybe I would have been surprised. In any case, we got the job done. After Hokuto scored an absolute beauty it left Nagoya needing four unanswered goals so things were pretty much wrapped up. Needless to say though, we went on to concede a couple of goals, making the final score this season’s most common scoreline (I reckon), 2-2. The big talking point will probably be VAR ruling out Kobayashi’s goal. As I’m not 100% sure of the rules regarding VAR, I’m not going to go into much detail, but I wonder just how far they can go back when using VAR to verify a goal. From the replays it looked like Nishimura had made a typically Nishimura-esque decision, and perhaps he did, as it will almost certainly get people talking about him and his decision. The attack that Kobayashi was ruled offside from was probably at least 5 seconds before he received he ball for the second time, clearly onside, and put it away. It’s a shame for him, as he had the ball in the back of the net twice in this game, both ruled-out, as he never seems to be so clinical when they aren’t ruled out. But anyway, job done, and we’re on to the next round, even if it wasn’t exactly convincing again. Oh, and Damiao scored again. Almost certainly won’t start the next game as a punishment for doing that!
Next up, Jubilo Iwata at home in the league. Back to our full strength team, I guess, whoever that might be! Maybe we might actually win in the league! Or maybe not. Fingers crossed we do.
Team
GK 21. ARAI Shota
DF 17. MAWATARI Kazuaki
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa
MF 22. SHIMODA Hokuto
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 8. ABE Hiroyuki
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu
Subs
GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (on for KOBAYASHI 74')
MF 14 NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (on for WAKIZAKA 65')
FW 20. CHINEN Kei
DF 26. MAGUINHO
MF 32. MITOMA Kaoru (on for ABE 86')
Goals
HASEGAWA (Nagoya) 73' 1-1
WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 81' 1-2
JO (Nagoya) 89' 2-2
Highlights
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