Vs Cerezo Osaka (away) 3/8/22 Levain Cup quarter finals first leg

Cerezo Osaka 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale

Sorry everyone, I missed this match in every possible way. I wasn’t able to go and wasn’t able to even watch it. Thankfully we managed to fill the bench on this occasion. But three of those players were goalies again. Chanathip is back from injury but the fact that he didn’t come on suggests that maybe he isn’t really back from injury. The only other addition to last weekend’s squad was Shin Yamada, a specially designated player who jumped straight into the starting line up. Damiao, Jesiel and Ienaga dropped to the bench, which presumably means they are being saved for Sunday against YFM and therefore we were prioritising that game over this one. Hopefully we’ll have a few more players back by then as the current lot must be getting pretty knackered. And we have the second leg of this tie next Wednesday so there’s no break for us at all really. All things being considered, this was a decent result I guess. We’ve got an away goal, we did better than we did last time we went to Cerezo (although once again we conceded late on in the game). Wakizaka’s goal was nice. Their goal was apparently offside if you listen to Twitter. But there was VAR (I think) so you’ve got to think that if it was, it would have been disallowed. It would be unfair to be disappointed about any kind of result at the moment, such is the position we’re in. There are a few other clubs with loads of COVID cases now. I wonder if any will get their games postponed or whether we’ll all just be gritting our teeth and getting on with it now (getting on with passing the infection around our clubs). The attitude towards COVID in the J League now does seem to reflect the societal attitude to be honest. Record high numbers but it seems that we’re going with a policy of not thinking too much about it and hoping it will go away at the moment. It would be really annoying if these not-enough-players games came back to haunt us at the end of the season. However, I think we’d already messed things up before this came up though. Anyway, I’m writing too much considering I didn’t even see any part of this game. Next up a very important/too late already so not important anymore game against Kevin Muscats’ YFM on Sunday. I don’t think we can win the league, but I really hope we give them a right pasting. 

 

Team 

 
GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 16. SEKO Tatsuki

DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo

DF 31. YAMAMURA Kazuya (Yellow card 41')

DF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento
MF 6. JOAO SCHMIDT

MF 19. TONO Daiya

MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto

FW 24. MIYAGI Ten

FW 32. YAMADA Shin

FW 23. MARCINHO

Subs

GK 27. TANNO Kenta

GK 21. ANDO Shunsuke

GK 22. HAYASAKA Yuki

DF 4. JESIEL (on for MIYAGI 84')

FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (on for YAMADA 84')

MF 18. CHANATHIP

FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for MARCINHO 73')

Goals

 

WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 33' 0-1

TAGGART (Cerezo) 89' 1-1

Highlights