Pathum United 2 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale
Our third group stage game and somewhat bizarrely considering recent seasons’ performances, our third win. And actually, even more bizarre when you think how crap we’ve been all year. This was a game that I didn’t attend and when I watch matches on DAZN, I always find these posts pretty pointless. I even struggle to pay complete attention. So if you’re looking for new levels of insight from me being able to watch replays and see close ups, you’re in for a disappointment. But I’m sure no one was expecting that, were they? In spite of the amount of goals in the game, this was for long stages, a pretty dull match. Or perhaps that’s just the way I saw it. Around 77 minutes it looked like everything was going just fine. Ominami had just scored his first goal for us and we were leading 4-1. Shortly afterwards, perhaps the ref and fate received notifications that significant amounts of money had been deposited into their bank accounts by an enemy of ours, as after that moment both seemed to decide they had a real grudge against us. The penalty and yellow card for Sung-Ryong were pretty dodgy. Then the yellow card for Terada for presumably complaining about the decision. Then Ominami picked up what looked like a bad injury. And to add to these, how about yellow cards for both Jesiel and Takai as they were subbed on? Presumably for entering the field of play without the ref’s consent but both seemed to be pretty petty, but I guess correct by the letter of the law. Good to see we have someone who enforces the rules strictly, eh? Well, apart from the ‘penalty’. But anyway, this is supposed to be a short and whinge free post. However, even in short and whinge free posts, it still feels necessary to point out when a ref is totally crap. He was.
A few other comments and then let’s get this finished. Jesiel back in the squad was a surprise. Even more of a surprise, given his recent injury history, was that Oniki thought it would be a good idea to bring him on, presumably without a warm up, for the last few minutes of a game we were leading by two goals. Takai coming on shortly afterwards shows that he could have been used instead. Or maybe Tanabe. But no, Oniki went for Jesiel. Guess it makes sense to use him if you’re going to make someone who hasn't played a minute of football for ages to fly to an away ACL game. Probably would have made more sense to leave him at home, but I’m glad he’s back and hope he can avoid any more injuries. Also slightly bizarre was Oniki’s continued insistence on playing Tono in midfield. He’s a striker and the one thing he’s been doing recently is score goals. But instead he once again played him further back. He scored a goal though! And was then subbed at half time when perhaps Oniki remembered he isn’t a midfielder. He should write some notes down about these things as he seems to keep forgetting. I guess there’s no way for him to be able to use his magnet board to keep track of where players play. Finally, I need to mention a couple of things that the commentator informed us of and that maybe people don’t know., Firstly the Pathum player Stewart has probably recently attended a wedding or celebration with a lovely banquet as a ‘long feed’ was mentioned. Also Marcinho seems to have a large kitchen as his goal was met with a comment about his ‘long counter’. Plenty of work surface space available to prepare a long feed for Stewart perhaps!
Next up, Kashiwa Reysol away at the weekend and presumably Ominami will not get the chance to return to his old club. And then after that, it’s almost a whole week off before we have the home game against Pathum. Hopefully the ref will be a bit less useless on that occasion.
Team
GK 99. KAMIFUKUMOTO Naoto
DF 15. TANABE Shuto
FW 33. MIYASHIRO Taisei (on for MARCINHO 70')
VICTOR CARDOZO (Pathum) PEN 82' 2-1
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