Vs Sydney FC (away) 21/5/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 6

  Sydney FC 0 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale

Another ACL campaign is over and done with. This year we went out with a bang which will probably give us all some thoughts of what might have been. But to be honest, it’s one good result covering up a series of lacklustre performances and a bit of bad luck. I’m not going to go into any detail about this match as once again, I was unable to watch this game. This year the ACL scheduling has been very cruel to me. Tuesday night kick offs at 19:00 make it difficult for many people to get to these games. Though saying that, we had some decent attendances for our home games.

So, what went wrong in the ACL this year? Of course already people are taking about mental weakness and us not taking the competition seriously. I think both of these are lazy assumptions and aren’t accurate but of course, people like to say these kind of things. It’s clear that after winning two titles we are not chokers anymore. You also can’t say that we didn’t prioritise this competition. In fact, I’d say it’s pretty clear that some of our early league games were affected by us saving players for ACL games. Leandro Damiao was apparently a player who we bought with the ACL in mind. Although in our first ACL game he came on in the 89th minute just after we’d conceded, so read into that what you want. More likely the main problem was more to do with our notoriously slow starts to seasons. At the start of the year, plenty of what Oniki seems to consider to be his starting eleven were just playing terribly. Some still haven’t really started playing well either. Ienaga, Morita, Nakamura, Kobayashi all had very slow starts to the season. Combine this with Oniki being reluctant to give players outside of his preferred eleven anything for than 10 or 15 minutes of pitch time and you can understand why we didn’t play very well.

Our opposition in the group had some bearing on the results too. A group made up of three league champions and one team who had reinforced well in the off-season and could well be the K League champions this year was never going to be easy. Although saying this, neither Shanghai or Ulsan looked particularly good, but we still contrived to look worse. Also, injuries didn’t help our cause. We still have plenty of players on the sidelines and we lost some important players for important games. Although some of these players were the ones who I think have been playing pretty badly this year. Even so, the injuries have got to be taken into account I think. Then there was good old fashioned bad luck. Morita giving away the penalty in the first game was unfortunate. If we’d picked up a point away at Shanghai instead of starting our campaign with an unfortunate loss who knows what might have happened. If everything panned out as it did, we would have gone through ahead of Shanghai in the group. Away at Ulsan, you can’t really say we were unlucky. We totally dominated the game, but failed to score due to woeful shooting and then failed to defend at the death. Two home draws with the same two teams came because of more dodgy defending and more failures to put shots away. Apparently against Ulsan at home we only had 4 out of 21 shots on target. They had 3 of their 4 and the game finished 2-2. Against Shanghai, they had 2 shots on target and scored twice (although we only had 3 and also scored twice, so that probably says something about the quality on show). Two wins against what looked like a very poor Sydney team have added a bit of gloss to the final standings, but the home game against them, the only ACL game I managed to see live this year, was one of the worst performances I’ve seen us put in all season and we’ve had some stinkers.If we manage to qualify for the competition next year, Oniki really has to address the slow starts we’re making to campaigns. How he manages to make experienced players avoid being quite so unprepared and rusty, I don’t know. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to sit and moan instead of having to try and think how to sort out a situation.

But let’s finish by looking on the bright side. This game saw another goal from Leandro Damiao, two more from Wakizaka and another from Ao with us coming racing out of the traps and establishing a big lead in the first half. We could do with some of that form transferring over into the league, where we need to get a poor performance against Nagoya out of our systems and get back to winning ways, preferably playing a bit better than we have been. One other positive is that now we can have no doubt over what our priority might be and therefore we will presumably see what Oniki considers to be our best available eleven in our next match. We’ve got quite a bit of ground to make up and now have no distractions (until the Emperor’s Cup comes round). So, let’s look forward to that, and also look forward to a nice way trip to Oita on Sunday. I’ve heard it’s going to be pretty hot and sunny. Three points are a must, I think.

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG

DF 26. MAGUINHO

DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa

MF 25. TANAKA Ao

MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto

MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya

MF 19. SAITO Manabu

FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota

DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei

MF 8. ABE Hiroyuki (on for SAITO 62')

MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota

MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (on for TANIGUCHI 83')

FW 20. CHINEN Kei (on for LEANDRO DAMIAO 70')

MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto

Goals 
  
WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 9' 0-1
WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 20' 0-2
TANAKA (Frontale) 28' 0-3
LEANDRO DAMIAO (Frontale) 59' 0-4


Highlights

Vs Shanghai SIPG (home) 8/5/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 5

  Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 2 Shanghai SIPG

Let’s not beat about the bush here. I didn’t see this game due to work, so I’m not going to waste anyone’s time by commenting on some dodgy highlights I saw. The fact is, we’re still just about alive in the competition but need to beat Sydney in the final game to progress whilst relying on Ulsan not losing to Shanghai. Ulsan are already through as group winners so have absolutely nothing to play for. And Sydney haven’t lost at home in the ACL this year. So not exactly full of hope. I’ll save the dissection of the failures of this campaign for the next ACL post (if we don’t qualify for the next round). It was nice to Leandro Damiao get a chance and score. It wasn’t nice to see us concede two pretty poor goals, both of which seemed to pit Nobori against Hulk, which doesn’t exactly seem like a fair fight. The stats say that we had 13 shots but only got three on target which doesn’t really seem good enough and as it turned out, wasn’t good enough for us to take three points. Onwards and hopefully upwards to Shimizu away on Sunday.

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 17. MAWATARI Kazuaki
DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo (Yellow card 88')
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa (Yellow card 58')
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota
MF 19. SAITO Manabu
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya

FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (Yellow card 63')

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota

FW 20. CHINEN Kei

MF 25. TANAKA Ao

DF 26. MAGUINHO

MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto (on for MAWATARI 78')

MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto (on for HASEGAWA 78')
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya (on for MORITA 84')

Goals

HULK (Shanghai) 6' 0-1
LEANDRO DAMIAO (Frontale) 13' 1-1
TANIGUCHI (Frontale) 66' 2-1
HULK (Shanghai) 71' 2-2 


Highlights

Vs Ulsan Hyundai (home) 23/4/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 4

  Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 2 Ulsan Hyundai

Fortunately I had to work when this game was on, so was unable to witness our ACL campaign continue to trundle along, underwhelming result after underwhelming result. This year has the potential to be much like last season when we started badly in the ACL, continued badly and finished averagely, each consecutive game becoming increasingly crucial until qualification was mathematically impossible, at which stage we started playing a bit better. Perhaps this year we can say we’ve been a bit unlucky at times. However, if you’re dominating possession but failing to score and it’s 0-0 going into the final five minutes, you’ve got to expect that sometimes you’ll end up losing. The fact that it’s happened twice in this group already is unfortunate, but if we’d managed to get some more shots at least on target we might not have been in the position where we were open to being unlucky. Anyway, I can’t really comment on this game as I have seen nothing more than the highlights and the game stats. From these highlights, it seems that we conceded two rotten goals. The first was from a corner with calamitous defending, or perhaps more accurately, non-existent defending with an Ulsan player poking home easily, totally free at the back post and the second showed similar inability to make a challenge and went in off Sung-Ryong’s hand. Our equalizer was a weird one. Having watched it back numerous times I’m still not sure if Chinen or Damiao got the final touch. They both appeared to scoop it in together. The website gives it to Chinen though. Again, we failed to win. At least this time it was a comeback rather than us conceding late on on the game. But this was coupled with the fact that we went from leading to trailing with some utterly crappy play. We had 68% possession! Fantastic! We had 21 goal attempts! Marvelous! Their keeper had to make two saves in the whole game… oh. This was perhaps more a mustn’t-lose than a must-win game but this draw has put us in a bit of a hole. We probably need to win our last two games, away at Sydney and at home against Shanghai. Both of these teams looked pretty average when we played them. But we have looked pretty average too so our situation doesn’t look so good.

I’m not going to moan too much about the details of this game as I am woefully unqualified to do so. However, again we have seen a player come from not even being on the bench to starting (Saito). We’ve seen Chinen (apparently our favoured striker in the league) drop to the bench, but with Kobayashi rather than Damiao replacing him. It’s good to see Kobayashi finally get off the mark this year, but I heard he missed an absolute sitter at the end which could have won us the game. Whatever Damiao did to Oniki, it’s clear that Oniki still hasn’t forgiven him. It’s still unclear as to whether the ACL is a priority for us. And it's still unclear what our best team is. To be honest, I’ve given up trying to work it out. Perhaps Oniki is rotating again. But if he is, it’s about as successful as last year when he’d just remove whole sections of the team and replace them at random. It makes a change from last year’s predictable Frontale line-ups I guess. This year, the only thing we can predict is that it will be unpredictable. 


Next up, Kobe away on Sunday. I dearly, dearly want us to win this game. I think Kobe are turning into plenty of people’s least favourite J League team. They certainly are right up there for me. Our Golden Week schedule isn’t so busy, so there’s not really any need to rest players. Perhaps we’ll see Oniki’s preferred eleven playing and perhaps we’ll be able to get a bit more insight into what’s going on this year. Perhaps… Anyway, let’s try to stay positive. Go Frontale!

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 17. MAWATARI Kazuaki (Yellow card 4')
DF 3. NARA Tatsuki
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei
MF 25. TANAKA Ao
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 19. SAITO Manabu
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (on for NAKAMURA 79')

FW 20. CHINEN Kei (on for TANAKA 46')

MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto

MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto (on for IENAGA 73')
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya
MF 44. CAIO CESAR

Goals

KOBAYASHI (Frontale) 8' 1-0
PARK Yong-Woo (Ulsan) 17' 1-1
JUNIOR NEGAO (Ulsan) 31' 1-2 
CHINEN (Frontale) 82' 2-2

 
Highlights

Vs Ulsan Hyundai (away) 11/4/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 3

Ulsan Hyundai 1 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale

I’m going to knock this blog post out quickly as this was once again a game I don’t want to dwell on too much. I managed to watch the game on TV in a bar in Kawasaki. But to be honest, I wish I hadn’t bothered. This season seems to be the season of draws so far, but Ulsan cruelly denied us another scintillating one with a late header which we didn’t really bother to defend. A potential injury to Taniguchi is the faecal icing on this shittiest of shitty cakes of a game. It will come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog to find where I place the blame for this abomination. Oniki picked a weird squad, a weird starting eleven and bench and didn’t even bother to use his third sub, presumably because he discovered he didn’t really have anything on the bench. Caio Cesar and Ao playing alongside each other in the defensive central midfield roles looked a pretty inexperienced pairing. Before this game Caio had played about two minutes of first team football for us but was selected to start. He was a bit shaky at times, but in the end did ok. The fact that he’s an attacking left-sided midfielder and he was played in the middle just in front of the back four probably hints at why his defensive play wasn’t as good as it could be.

There weren’t many bright sparks in this game. We shot and shot but once again couldn’t score. As I’ve said before, Oniki’s 2018 season lack of a plan B weakness has now disintegrated into a lack of both a plan A and a plan B. If I had access to a replay of the whole game, I would ideally get a screen grab of the shot of Oniki in the 88th minute with his magnets and whiteboard trying to work out something... anything, and then not bothering. As usual, too little too late. I would caption this screen grab ‘Oniki fiddles (with his magnets) while Frontale burns’. I think he’s well out of his depth and we could be in real trouble if something doesn’t change soon. Whether that change is to do with results or manager, things can’t really get worse in either respect. I’m not going to blame him for the mistake from Sung-Ryong and the closest defender for allowing them a free header. I will however blame him for the fact that in spite of dominating the game, we didn’t really create many chances. And we took none of the few we did. Also the fact that their tall goal scorer came on as a sub at a free kick and his marker was Maguinho suggests that we’re not really preparing very well.

Onwards and hopefully upwards. Things can’t get much worse. Perhaps a loss to a team that has only scored once this season in our next game could be one of those situations where things do get worse. We head to Sagan Tosu desperately needing a win. If I search for some positive, maybe it could be than we’ve now played our two toughest away games of the ACL group stage. But Sydney have managed two draws at home in the competition this year and last year we lost to Melbourne Victory away from home. So maybe even in my positive point, I’ve found a potential negative. Perhaps it is our fate after a couple of good seasons to have an absolute stinker of a year in all competitions. But in any case, the one bright spot for me is that on Sunday, after enjoying a local nihonshu, a local shochu and a beer on the terrace at Tosu, I probably won’t be able to remember much about the game afterwards! Drink on!

Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 26. MAGUINHO
DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 7 KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 25. TANAKA Ao
MF 44. CAIO CESAR (Yellow card 41')
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (Yellow card 46')
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei (on for KURUMAYA 70')

DF 3. NARA Tatsuki (on for TANIGUCHI 34')

FW 20. CHINEN Kei

MF 22. SHIMODA Hokuto

MF 28. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya


My Frontale Man Of The Match

Yeah, right...


Goals

KIM Su-An (Ulsan) 90+1' 1-0


Highlights
 

Vs Sydney FC (home) 13/3/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 2

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 0 Sydney FC

We won a game!!! It feels like it’s been a while and I’m glad we finally broke our run of draws. But it wasn’t exactly a convincing performance. But the result is a step in the right direction. I’m going to try to keep this a brief post as the games are coming uncomfortably quickly at the moment and it’s making it difficult to keep up with blog posts. What’s undeniable is that we needed this win badly and that was evident by the big celebrations from the players and the fans at the end. This was a result with a significance that I guess outweighed the flatness of the performance. Hopefully it will help us kick on a bit now and get started properly in the league against Gamba at home on Sunday. Fingers crossed anyway. Here’s what we’ve learned from this game:

Today's favourite 11 -

After some confusion over possible rotation against Yokohama and some very real doubts over what our priorities are and what Oniki’s first choice team is, this line up further muddied the water. Kurumaya dropped to the bench. Was this due to his recent questionable form or was he being rested? Who knows… If you looked to right back, you might think there was some kind of resting going on, as Mawatari, who definitely seems to be Oniki’s favored option in that position dropped out of the squad after completing 90 minutes against Yokohama. But as this was after he seemed to have been injured in the previous game against Shanghai, I was all in favour of giving him a break as he’s done well so far and we don’t want anyone picking up a long term injury. However, his place was, in my view, illogically given to Morita. I don’t know what Maguinho has done to Oniki, but after a couple of promising early performances he seems to have now completely dropped out of contention. Is he going to be this season’s Edu? I hope not! Right back clearly isn’t Morita’s best position, and I don’t know why he’s being played there with Maguinho and Suzuki being much more natural options. Aside from these changes at the back, the other notable change was Kengo being moved back alongside Ao and us apparently reverting to a 4-4-2 with Kobayashi up front, Hasegawa on the left and Ienaga wherever he wanted. But it felt more like the usual formation with Kobayashi on the right and Ienaga in the Kengo role to me. It looked like a line-up that could do Sydney quite some damage but it didn’t really turn out like that.

Blame the pitch and the balloon -

After a bright start with Damiao forcing a decent save out of the Sydney keeper (who people praised, but I wasn’t so sure about. More to come on that shortly), we quickly reverted back to playing the useless football we played for large periods of the first three league games. Our passing was horrible. It looked like the ball had been replaced by a balloon, with relatively simple passes skewing off at weird angles. I know when we pass badly we usually moan about the pitch. I heard some complaints about the Yokohama pitch, which for some reason affected our passing a lot more than it did theirs. But this was a home game for us, so I have no idea what we can blame for our inability to move the ball around. Sure it was a little windy, but unless the wind was a ground level hurricane, we can’t really blame it. I always feels guilty about singling people out for bad performances (but I guess it doesn’t usually stop me doing so), but once again Morita wasn’t at his best. Neither were Ienaga, Kobayashi or Kengo. I don’t understand why everyone might be having rotten games at the same time. Is there something going on behind the scenes? Is it just a lack of confidence due to our flat start to the season? Aside from a few glimpses of decent football, this was pretty plodding stuff. Sydney didn’t look any better, looking like they’d come to play for the draw and perhaps snatch something on a counter attack. If they’d watched any of our previous three games they could probably have expected that we’d gift them a goal sooner or later. But they didn’t really trouble us too much. Think they only had two shots in the whole game. Conversely, we had plenty of shots, but to be honest, to call them shots is being a bit generous. Some of the ‘fantastic’ saves the Sydney keeper pulled off required him to catch the ball, moving at back pass speed, at perfect height without having to move his feet, which he did with aplomb! And that was when we actually managed to shoot. Once again, it was all a bit ponderous, with us trying to work the ball into a position where we could pass it over the line.

ExSAITOment -

The change many of us were calling for in this game did finally come. When I say the change we were calling for, I really mean the introduction of Manabu. I don’t think Hasegawa did anything wrong in particular, but the game was begging for a bit of exSAITOment (hmmmmmm…. does that work?). He duly supplied it within two minutes of coming on, slotting the ball home. He was named man of the match, and whilst I would usually rail against someone playing for ten minutes getting that honour, presumably just because they scored a goal, I think he fully deserved it. He managed to score!!!! And he does seem to lift both the crowd and his teammates when he comes on. And there wasn't a wealth of other options. I don’t know why we don’t play him more often. Surely we could use him a bit more centrally too as another option, getting the ball to him to run at opposition defences. He must be wondering why he joined us given the lack of playing time he’s had so far. Think we have to get him more involved this year as he can’t be too happy with, at best, sitting on the bench. You could probably say this about a few other players too, but it does seem that even with this talk of rotation, there are still some un-rotatables. I still think Oniki picks the players first and then tries to fit them in to his formation after.

Wahey! Boom, boom, boom, boom _________________ -

This wasn’t the biggest attendance, but it was a decent one, considering it was a week night game with a bit of an early kick off. Somewhat reflecting the quality of what was going on on the pitch, I’d say it was a bit of an underwhelming night for the supporters too. This resulted in something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen. I think a rival group to the regular Kawasaki Kazoku started a chant! Not hugely exciting, but it seems slightly noteworthy. I do wonder why we sometimes stay quiet aside from a little jeering and some drum rolling when the opposition has the ball and passes it back to their keeper. It seems that people don’t like to make any noise unless it is a noise sanctioned and started by the call leaders. Was nice to see something starting almost naturally. The Kazoku do a great job, and I understand that if the game is dull it’s difficult to be excited, but if we believe that our support helps the team, we shouldn’t just confine it to when we have the ball.

Japan/Australia ACL love in -

Finally a couple of less Frontale focused points. After seeing some nice interactions between Melbourne Victory and Hiroshima fans at the previous days game on twitter, it was nice to see that the A League and J League love in continued. Sydney left us a nice message in their changing room and there was seemed to be some good feeling between the fans walking back to station. I don’t know how many fans Sydney actually brought with them, and how many were people actually living in Japan, but it’s always good to see fans integrating nicely. Contrary to what fans of some clubs might think, (including some in the J League), you don’t have to hate the opposition with every part of your being. Of course it’s easier to say that after a win, but I hope I’d be able to feel it in defeat too.

Mullet! -

What a haircut that was! Have no idea what’s behind it and whether it is a post modern interpretation with an ironic wink or just a good old fashioned shocker of a mullet, but wow! Hats off to you Rhyan Grant (see, he’s even wild with his spelling of his name!). Definitely hats off, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to see the full effect of that cut.

So, next up Gamba at home. Hopefully this win will give us a bit of confidence. Even if it was a thoroughly average performance, it was a win. If we can now do that in the league, we might be able to get a bit more optimism flowing and we might even see a few more goals. Gamba have scored quite a few and conceded quite a few so far so it should be an exciting game. (Presumably now though, it will be another 0-0 draw).  Let’s get the league campaign and title defence properly started and hopefully stop people talking about Yokohama and get them talking about us again. Go Frontale!


Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 6. MORITA Hidemasa
DF 3. NARA Tatsuki
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei
MF 25. TANAKA Ao
MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota
DF 7 KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 19. SAITO Manabu (on for HASEGAWA 81')
FW 20. CHINEN Kei (on for LEANDRO DAMIAO 64')
MF 22. SHIMODA Hokuto
MF 27. SUZUKI Yuto (on for MORITA 61')
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya


My Frontale Man Of The Match

Yeah, I know it’s stupid but I’m going to give it to... 


SAITO Manabu - took a shot, scored a goal, made (almost) everyone happy.


Goals

SAITO (Frontale) 83' 1-0


Highlights

Vs Shanghai SIPG (away) 6/3/19 - ACL Group Stage Match 1

Shanghai SIPG 1 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale

A disappointing night away in Shanghai for us. I didn’t go to the game and only saw it on a tiny, blurry screen so I’m not going to go into any kind of detail about this. Hasegawa starting was a surprise, but perhaps Oniki had done his homework as he caused them all kinds of problems in the first half. Not sure why our ACL challenge special signing Leandro Damiao wasn’t on the pitch until the final two minutes though. Presumably some will use this as a stick to beat us with about not putting out our strongest team. This accusation would be quite frankly ridiculous. It was an unfortunate way to lose a game that we’d dominated possession in. You can’t blame Morita and you can’t blame the ref. It was the right decision. Just all a bit of a shame. One other dark cloud is the injury to Mawatari. Hopefully it's not serious. The necessary tactical shuffle due to his removal didn't help, but wasn't why we lost so let's not dwell on it. Looking on the bright side, that’s probably our toughest group game out of the way and Ulsan and Sydney drew. Looking on the dark side, neither team really deserved to win, and Shanghai didn't look that good, but we managed to lose. Discounting the Super Cup, that’s three games, two draws and one loss. One goal scored, two conceded. Not the most thrilling of openings to the season, it has to be said. Hopefully, sooner of later, we might remember how to score from open play. Fingers crossed it’s Sunday, which now is looking like, (and I know it’s ridiculously early in the season to say this), a must win game. Forget this match, it wasn’t to be, and let’s concentrate on paying a bit better and getting a better result against Yokohama.


Team

GK 1. Sung-Ryong JUNG
DF 17. MAWATARI Kazuaki
DF 3. NARA Tatsuki (Yellow card 69')
DF 5. TANIGUCHI Shogo
DF 7 KURUMAYA Shintaro (Yellow card 43')
MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota
MF 6. MORITA Hidemasa
MF 16. HASEGAWA Tatsuya (Yellow card 26')
MF 14. NAKAMURA Kengo
MF 41. IENAGA Akihiro
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu

Subs
GK 21. ARAI Shota
MF 2. NOBORIZATO Kyohei (on for MAWATARI 51')
FW 8. ABE Hiroyuki (on for HASEGAWA 79')
FW 9. LEANDRO DAMIAO (on for MORITA 89')
FW 20. CHINEN Kei
DF 29. MICHAEL JAMES
MF 34. YAMAMURA Kazuya

Goals  

HULK (Shanghai) 89' (PEN) 1-0  

Highlights