Yokohama FC 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale
Oops. I’ve left it a bit late to write this and given that I went to another game between this one and writing this, everything has got a bit blurry. This is all excellent news when it comes to how long this will be and how long it will take you to read it. It’s fair to say that even if I had scrupulously taken copious notes it would probably be kind of tricky to write much about this match as it wasn’t really a very exciting match and not a great deal happened. Perhaps due to the generally dubious level of the game, even the winning goal felt like a bit of a soft one at the time. Having watched the replay it was clearly a lot better than it seemed at the time. So maybe everything I thought about this match was equally inaccurate. Please feel free to correct me if this is indeed the case. I’ll do the usual headings but the paragraphs are gong to be a lot shorter than usual. Here we go.
Us -
One of my few notes says that we were on top for most of the first half but only had our first shot around the 30 minute mark. In the past maybe this would have meant that we were going to have a storming second half, but to be honest that half went similarly to the first. In fact one of my other notes says that we were even worse in the second but somehow we managed to score. Praise the lord for Yamamoto Yuki! The fact that it was raining for most of the match meant that I couldn’t take my phone out as much as I usually do to write down stuff. The fact is though, that even if I had been able to, there wasn’t really anything to write about. It was a ‘real nothing game’ according to my penultimate note, possibly written on the train on the way home. Oshima started, which was nice. But it didn’t really mean that we played well. But the most important thing is that we won and we’ve done the double over YFC, which I can’t remember us doing recently. At this stage of the season with us playing catch up, getting the three points is the most important thing, so I’m not going to get too upset about boring games if we win them.
Them -
Perhaps things would have turned out differently if YFC had managed to get any of their shots on target. The had 50% more shots than us, which sounds like they had a massively attacking game, but in this case 50% more was 9 to our 6. There probably isn’t really anything else to say in this section. Maybe YFC could feel hard done by, but I guess if you don’t hit the target even once, you can’t expect to win. Maybe the lack of excitement in our play was down to YFC having a good game defensively, but I suspect it was more due to two teams who are a bit tired both being off the boil and we were perhaps lucky to edge it because we hit the target. Definitely not a game either set of fans will be watching back much, I suspect.
Ref -
So poor was this game that I came away from it with no strong feelings about the ref. I have only one note regarding him and that was he was soft on Suzuki who I thought probably should have got a second yellow card. Aside from watching the entire game back, I don’t really know how I can verify this comment and I don’t intend to do so, so once again, feel free to correct me. My feelings about this ref were probably softened by witnessing a truly atrocious homer of a ref in the game I watched on Sunday when Criacao Shinjuku got absolutely everything from the ref. Delightfully, Grulla won the game though. This point is only added to say that perhaps it’s true that the refs in J1 are the cream of the crop if the others in the JFL are as bad as the one on Sunday was. Cream of the crop! Even if that cream is slightly sour. Guess that would work better in a dinner than in a coffee, so perhaps there is somewhere where J1 refs could really look good. But anyway, this all feels like a slightly unfair diversion as Ueda didn’t do much wrong, I reckon.
Next up Vissel Kobe at home on Saturday. I reckon we owe them a beating after the away game. Although to be honest, as far as I could tell from what I heard, we were awful in that game, so perhaps we don’t particularly deserve to get ‘revenge’. Would be nice though, wouldn’t it? And as I’ve heard that wanker Thuler might be leaving them soon, it would be nice if get could get sent off again before he leaves. Fingers crossed for that and three points for us, even if it is dull again.
Us -
One of my few notes says that we were on top for most of the first half but only had our first shot around the 30 minute mark. In the past maybe this would have meant that we were going to have a storming second half, but to be honest that half went similarly to the first. In fact one of my other notes says that we were even worse in the second but somehow we managed to score. Praise the lord for Yamamoto Yuki! The fact that it was raining for most of the match meant that I couldn’t take my phone out as much as I usually do to write down stuff. The fact is though, that even if I had been able to, there wasn’t really anything to write about. It was a ‘real nothing game’ according to my penultimate note, possibly written on the train on the way home. Oshima started, which was nice. But it didn’t really mean that we played well. But the most important thing is that we won and we’ve done the double over YFC, which I can’t remember us doing recently. At this stage of the season with us playing catch up, getting the three points is the most important thing, so I’m not going to get too upset about boring games if we win them.
Them -
Perhaps things would have turned out differently if YFC had managed to get any of their shots on target. The had 50% more shots than us, which sounds like they had a massively attacking game, but in this case 50% more was 9 to our 6. There probably isn’t really anything else to say in this section. Maybe YFC could feel hard done by, but I guess if you don’t hit the target even once, you can’t expect to win. Maybe the lack of excitement in our play was down to YFC having a good game defensively, but I suspect it was more due to two teams who are a bit tired both being off the boil and we were perhaps lucky to edge it because we hit the target. Definitely not a game either set of fans will be watching back much, I suspect.
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Ref -
So poor was this game that I came away from it with no strong feelings about the ref. I have only one note regarding him and that was he was soft on Suzuki who I thought probably should have got a second yellow card. Aside from watching the entire game back, I don’t really know how I can verify this comment and I don’t intend to do so, so once again, feel free to correct me. My feelings about this ref were probably softened by witnessing a truly atrocious homer of a ref in the game I watched on Sunday when Criacao Shinjuku got absolutely everything from the ref. Delightfully, Grulla won the game though. This point is only added to say that perhaps it’s true that the refs in J1 are the cream of the crop if the others in the JFL are as bad as the one on Sunday was. Cream of the crop! Even if that cream is slightly sour. Guess that would work better in a dinner than in a coffee, so perhaps there is somewhere where J1 refs could really look good. But anyway, this all feels like a slightly unfair diversion as Ueda didn’t do much wrong, I reckon.
Next up Vissel Kobe at home on Saturday. I reckon we owe them a beating after the away game. Although to be honest, as far as I could tell from what I heard, we were awful in that game, so perhaps we don’t particularly deserve to get ‘revenge’. Would be nice though, wouldn’t it? And as I’ve heard that wanker Thuler might be leaving them soon, it would be nice if get could get sent off again before he leaves. Fingers crossed for that and three points for us, even if it is dull again.
Team
GK 98. YAMAGUCHI Louis
DF 5. SASAKI Asahi
DF 2. TAKAI Kota
DF 35. MARUYAMA Yuichi
DF 13. MIURA Sota
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota
MF 6. YAMAMOTO Yuki
MF 17. ITO Tatsuya
MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 23. MARCINHO
FW 20. YAMADA Shin
Subs
GK 1. JUNG Sung-Ryong
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento (on for YAMAMOTO 75')
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu (on for YAMADA 67')
DF 15. TANABE Shuto
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto
MF 19. KAWAHARA So (on for OSHIMA 58')
FW 24. MIYAGI Ten
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for ITO 67')
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto
MF 19. KAWAHARA So (on for OSHIMA 58')
FW 24. MIYAGI Ten
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for ITO 67')
My Frontale Man Of The Match
I know I’m copping out of doing these a lot recently, but this game was generally shite, so it’s difficult to work out who I might give this to. If MVP stood for mediocre very player, there would be plenty of candidates. But you know, they did the job, so either give it to everyone or no-one, depending on your preference.
Goals
YAMAMOTO (Frontale) 58' 0-1
Highlights
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