Vs Ulsan Hyundai (away) 12/12/23 ACL Group stage match 6

Ulsan Hyundai 2 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale

As I said I would in the last post, I missed this game as I was on a plane to the UK. With that in mind, this is going to be very brief. It seems that hell has frozen over as Oniki finally found a game he deemed to be meaningless enough to play some of the younger players. It was good to see Matsunagane, Tanabe and Myogan, (who got an assist but was again changed at half time),  get some pitch time again and Ozeki was able to come on from the bench. It was a bit bizarre to see Oniki decide it was necessary to bring on Ienaga in the 82nd minute, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt as I haven’t seen the game aside from the highlights. (Very generous of me, eh?). It looked like we attacked with some purpose and we pretty much matched them for all stats apart from possession in both halves. And we all know that in the past we’ve been big on possession and low on actually making chances so that’s got to be an encouraging thing. Kamifukumoto also seemed to have a decent game. (Well, he made some good saves on the highlights and wasn’t at fault for either of the goals). Whether any of this will in any way affect next season remains to be seen. But we’ve made it through the group unbeaten and are now presumably preparing for a defeat to Kofu in the next round.

Next up, Christmas and New Year and I guess some Frontale Rabbit round up posts and the survey and stuff. Right now that seems like a lot of work though for what was aside from the ACL and Emperor’s Cup, a pretty terrible season. I’ll do my best though. 

Team

GK 99. KAMIFUKUMOTO Naoto

DF 27. MATSUNAGANE Yuto

DF 4. JESIEL

DF 29. TAKAI Kota

DF 15. TANABE Shuto

MF 6. JOAO SCHMIDT

MF 16. SEKO Tatsuki

MF 17. TONO Daiya
FW 30. SEGAWA Yusuke

FW 20. YAMADA Shin (Yellow card 45+6')

FW 24. MYOGAN Toya

 

Subs

GK 1. JUNG Sung-Ryong

GK 22. HAYASAKA Yuki
GK 21. ANDO Shunsuke

DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei

DF 3. OMINAMI Takuma

DF 13. YAMANE Miki (on for MATSUNAGANE 78')

MF 28. OZEKI Yuto (on for SEKO 78')

DF 31. YAMAMURA Kazuya (on for SEGAWA 78')

FW 33. MIYASHIRO Taisei (on for MYOGAN 46')

MF 34. YUI Kota

MF 37. OGAWA Jo

FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for YAMADA 82')

 

Goals

TONO (Frontale) 17' 0-1

SEKO (Frontale) 31' 0-2
ADAM (Ulsan) 44' 1-2

ADAM (Ulsan) PEN 53' 2-2

 

Highlights