Vs Urawa Reds (away) 22/11/24 J League match 28 Part 2

Urawa Reds 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale 

This is the second part of a blog post about a game that was started on the 24th August. You can read that bit here

 

This part should probably have the subtitle 'Iwate Grulla Morioka 1 - 4 Fukushima United' as you can probably tell from the pictures.

Sorry, but the second part of this blog post is even less informative than the first. A rearranged 45 minutes at a stadium that is a pain in the arse to get to and the surrounding area of which offers absolutely nothing of interest was always going to be a hard sell. As it was we already had a trip booked in which we saw Ozeki and Matsunagane play for Fukushima United against Grulla and in spite of it being bloody cold at the game, (J League, once again give yourselves a pat on the back for your genius idea of changing the season dates in a couple of years time. Clearly a lot of the Tohoku teams’ home games are going to be pretty inhospitable). It will come as no surprise to hear that Ozeki is looking very good. Matsunagane had a decent game too, I thought, but got stitched up by the officials on a few occasions. And I would say that we should never moan about our refs as the J3 contingent are truly terrible but that sounds too positive. The truth probably is that J1 officials are hopeless and J3 ones are on the career path to progress from being truly hopeless to just plain hopeless. Good luck to them. So yeah, back to Frontale and there's nothing much I can write in the second half of this blog post. We scored and therefore drew. With everything surrounding the game, it was always going to be a bit of a weird one. That’s all I know really. The team have already flown to Thailand for the game against Buriram on Tuesday. I’m not going to that one either so I guess that blog post will also be a short one. And the Saturday after that we have Verdy away. Some might say we are out for revenge, but as far as I can remember, the home game against them was one of exceedingly low quality and extremely lacking in excitement, so not sure how that really fits into the whole revenge thing. Two more league and two more ACL games to go for the Oniki Frontale project and then we can start thinking about what a new manager can bring to us in 2025. I guess that counts as semi-exciting times, particularly after experiencing large parts of 2024.

 

Team

GK 1. JUNG Sung-Ryong

DF 31. VAN WERMESKERKEN Sai

DF 5. SASAKI Asahi
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
DF 13. MIURA Sota
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento

MF 10. OSHIMA Ryota

MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro
FW 20. YAMADA Shin
FW 23. MARCINHO

Subs

GK 98. YAMAGUCHI Louis
DF 4. JESIEL (on for VAN WERMESKERKEN 81')
FW 9. ERISON (on for YAMADA 81')

FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu (on for WAKIZAKA 46')

DF 15. TANABE Shuto

MF 17. TONO Daiya (on for MARCINHO 73')
MF 19. KAWAHARA So (on for OSHIMA 56')

DF 44. Cesar HAYDAR

Goals

KOBAYASHI (Frontale) 55' 1-1

 

Highlights