Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 1 Fagiano Okayama
It’s taken me quite some time to get round to writing this post, mainly due to the poor quality of the game. Even at the end of the match it was quite hard to recall what had happened in the preceding 90 minutes. Four days later, it’s almost impossible. And when you consider that most of my notes were things along the lines of ‘this is utterly dull’ and ‘complete lack of quality’ I’m going to get this out of the way with not much discussion of the actual game events as nothing much happened, and as I also can’t be bothered anymore, with as little effort as possible too.
Us -
Still mainly plugging away with the same players. No excitement of some youngsters getting a run out even though our season is over and done with. It’s hard to imagine what kind of scenario would result in some youngsters getting a chance as in seasons where we’d already sealed the title we haven’t done it, and in seasons like this where we’ve already fucked everything up, we still seem to be approaching every game as a crucial must win contest. When you consider that we might have a few players maybe retiring or leaving us at the end of the season (the first one, Sung-Ryong was announced today in between writing this and posting it), it also might have made sense to give some of them a chance to play. But no, just the same old stuff, dawdling towards a boring end to what has been a real up and down season. It was nice to see Sasaki back at left back. It was nice to see us fairly solid in defence. Well, right up until Hasebe decided to shore things up to hang on to that crucial 1-0 home win against Okayama. Right on cue, as often seems to happen when he tinkers to make us more solid, we conceded. Hasebe has had a tough year in some respects. He seems to have got no end of bad luck. The defensive solidity that people imagined he’d bring hasn’t materialised and instead we’ve become a team scoring goals for fun. Well, sometimes. On other occasions we’ve been absolutely blunt in front of goal as we were on this occasion. If we could have spread out the goals we’ve scored this year a bit better we would really have been in with a chance in the league. Probably likewise, if we hadn’t defended so badly all year. But this is all stuff for an end of season post really, (if I can be bothered to write it). Yamaguchi was very ready to throw blame around in his post match comments. It was quite unedifying, particularly when you consider some of the goals we’ve conceded this year. But I don’t want to start slagging people off. I will say though that I am worried about next season already.
Them -
Not much to say. I thought it was amusing that Broderson’s first name in Katakana is Subendo. I’m not sure why I enjoyed it so much, but I guess I was trying my best to find entertainment where I could in what was a dull, dull game. Aside from their goal, Okayama could only shoot either directly at the keeper or miles off target, which explains why they didn’t score more. To be fair though, the same could be said about us. Actually even worse could be said about us as even our goal was massively deflected. The height of goalkeeping excitement for most of the match was a keeper bending over to pick up a shot that dribbled into their hands. I’m pleased we managed to score against Okayama, as we’d failed to do so in the away game. This means we’ll finish the season by having scored at least once against every team… Oh, apart from the mighty Tokyo Verdy. That really sums up the season I think. Anyway, this is supposed to be the Okayama section. But the truth is there isn’t much else to say.
Ref -
Thankfully the ref Shimizu didn’t send off two of our players on this occasion. He continued in his previous (before he went nuts in the Fukuoka game) form and pretty much didn’t give anything, and was very reluctant to give any cards. He was even reluctant to let the physios onto the pitch, instead favouring the maxim that time is a great healer. I was worried that if someone broke a bone we might still be sitting in the stadium as Shimizu thought that any injury could be cured by just waiting. There definitely wouldn’t have been enough space on the board to show the additional time. How many minutes are there in nine months? I did like the way the ref overruled both of his linesman early on, within a few minutes of each other. The guy in front of us definitely deserved it as he was utterly hopeless. But anyway, this game was so dull for the most part that he didn’t have much to do. And therefore I don’t have much to moan about!
Another lead thrown away! Another late goal conceded! What a thrilling match, absolutely predictable when you consider that in order to let excitement reach an absolutely peak the league decided to play the last four games of the season over the course of a few months. Fever pitch excitement! Both teams played like they hadn’t kicked a ball for a couple of weeks. So just imagine how bad we’re going to be in the next match which is in three weeks time! Clearly it would be more humane if we could euthanise our season now, (or even better, could have done a few games ago). I feel like I should write a brief end of season piece as there probably is something to be said about our year, but please excuse me for not bothering with anything else. Writing this blog seems to have become quite pointless recently so i think I’ll probably have a rethink before next year’s dull half season of only the most boring away games. Next up Hiroshima and Urawa at home and away respectively, some time before the end of the year. Not much to look forward to, apart from a break from the kind of tedium that was on display in this match. Blessed relief!
Us -
Still mainly plugging away with the same players. No excitement of some youngsters getting a run out even though our season is over and done with. It’s hard to imagine what kind of scenario would result in some youngsters getting a chance as in seasons where we’d already sealed the title we haven’t done it, and in seasons like this where we’ve already fucked everything up, we still seem to be approaching every game as a crucial must win contest. When you consider that we might have a few players maybe retiring or leaving us at the end of the season (the first one, Sung-Ryong was announced today in between writing this and posting it), it also might have made sense to give some of them a chance to play. But no, just the same old stuff, dawdling towards a boring end to what has been a real up and down season. It was nice to see Sasaki back at left back. It was nice to see us fairly solid in defence. Well, right up until Hasebe decided to shore things up to hang on to that crucial 1-0 home win against Okayama. Right on cue, as often seems to happen when he tinkers to make us more solid, we conceded. Hasebe has had a tough year in some respects. He seems to have got no end of bad luck. The defensive solidity that people imagined he’d bring hasn’t materialised and instead we’ve become a team scoring goals for fun. Well, sometimes. On other occasions we’ve been absolutely blunt in front of goal as we were on this occasion. If we could have spread out the goals we’ve scored this year a bit better we would really have been in with a chance in the league. Probably likewise, if we hadn’t defended so badly all year. But this is all stuff for an end of season post really, (if I can be bothered to write it). Yamaguchi was very ready to throw blame around in his post match comments. It was quite unedifying, particularly when you consider some of the goals we’ve conceded this year. But I don’t want to start slagging people off. I will say though that I am worried about next season already.
Them -
Not much to say. I thought it was amusing that Broderson’s first name in Katakana is Subendo. I’m not sure why I enjoyed it so much, but I guess I was trying my best to find entertainment where I could in what was a dull, dull game. Aside from their goal, Okayama could only shoot either directly at the keeper or miles off target, which explains why they didn’t score more. To be fair though, the same could be said about us. Actually even worse could be said about us as even our goal was massively deflected. The height of goalkeeping excitement for most of the match was a keeper bending over to pick up a shot that dribbled into their hands. I’m pleased we managed to score against Okayama, as we’d failed to do so in the away game. This means we’ll finish the season by having scored at least once against every team… Oh, apart from the mighty Tokyo Verdy. That really sums up the season I think. Anyway, this is supposed to be the Okayama section. But the truth is there isn’t much else to say.
Ref -
Thankfully the ref Shimizu didn’t send off two of our players on this occasion. He continued in his previous (before he went nuts in the Fukuoka game) form and pretty much didn’t give anything, and was very reluctant to give any cards. He was even reluctant to let the physios onto the pitch, instead favouring the maxim that time is a great healer. I was worried that if someone broke a bone we might still be sitting in the stadium as Shimizu thought that any injury could be cured by just waiting. There definitely wouldn’t have been enough space on the board to show the additional time. How many minutes are there in nine months? I did like the way the ref overruled both of his linesman early on, within a few minutes of each other. The guy in front of us definitely deserved it as he was utterly hopeless. But anyway, this game was so dull for the most part that he didn’t have much to do. And therefore I don’t have much to moan about!
Another lead thrown away! Another late goal conceded! What a thrilling match, absolutely predictable when you consider that in order to let excitement reach an absolutely peak the league decided to play the last four games of the season over the course of a few months. Fever pitch excitement! Both teams played like they hadn’t kicked a ball for a couple of weeks. So just imagine how bad we’re going to be in the next match which is in three weeks time! Clearly it would be more humane if we could euthanise our season now, (or even better, could have done a few games ago). I feel like I should write a brief end of season piece as there probably is something to be said about our year, but please excuse me for not bothering with anything else. Writing this blog seems to have become quite pointless recently so i think I’ll probably have a rethink before next year’s dull half season of only the most boring away games. Next up Hiroshima and Urawa at home and away respectively, some time before the end of the year. Not much to look forward to, apart from a break from the kind of tedium that was on display in this match. Blessed relief!
Team
GK 98. YAMAGUCHI Louis
DF 31. VAN VERMESKERKEN Sai
GK 98. YAMAGUCHI Louis
DF 31. VAN VERMESKERKEN Sai
DF 4. JESIEL
DF 22. Flip UREMOVIC
DF 5. SASAKI Asahi
MF 19. KAWAHARA So
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento
MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
FW 17. ITO Tatsuya
FW 9. ERISON (Yellow card 44')
DF 5. SASAKI Asahi
MF 19. KAWAHARA So
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento
MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
FW 17. ITO Tatsuya
FW 9. ERISON (Yellow card 44')
FW 23. MARCINHO
Subs
GK 21. ANDO Shunsuke
MF 6. YAMAMOTO Yuki (on for TACHIBANADA 77')
Subs
GK 21. ANDO Shunsuke
MF 6. YAMAMOTO Yuki (on for TACHIBANADA 77')
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu
DF 15. TANABE Shuto (on for ITO 90+3')
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto (on for WAKIZAKA 77')
FW 29. MYOGAN Toya
FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for MARCINHO 66')
FW 91. Lazar ROMANIC (on for ERISON 66')
GoalsFW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu
DF 15. TANABE Shuto (on for ITO 90+3')
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto (on for WAKIZAKA 77')
FW 29. MYOGAN Toya
FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for MARCINHO 66')
FW 91. Lazar ROMANIC (on for ERISON 66')
YAMAMOTO (Frontale) 84' 1-0
MATSUMOTO (Okayama) 90+5' 1-1
Highlights
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