Shanghai Shenhua 1 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale
Well that was pretty shit, wasn’t it? I missed the first half as I was at work and just about made it home for the start of the second and… nothing happened. Well, apart from us gifting the opposition a goal and handed ourselves a defeat for the second time in five days. Apparently we had a shot. I can’t remember it. We had no shots on target in the whole game. But a lovely title winning 64% possession. I never like to comment much after watching a game online as I don’t think I have anything worth adding, This is probably even more true when you consider I missed the first half. It seems that I’ve cursed Miura by saying he’s been great this season. I don’t think a single one of his crosses made it past the first defender. I’m not very confident about the second leg. Actually, how do you dial that down one notch? What’s one level lower than ‘not very confident’? Maybe, ‘we’re fucked’? Let’s end with two statements of contrasting levels of optimism. Seeing as our first choice team and second choice team have both been shite for the last week, let’s be optimistic and say that the perfect mix of the two will be the one that works well and can win us the second leg. Guess Hasebe just has to find that mix but doesn’t have a lot of time to do it. And then on the other side of the optimism coin, let’s point to the fact that we had less shots in this game than we did in the one against the same opposition when we played for 85 minutes with 10 men. So choose which way you fancy going when it comes to optimism, and I’ll see you back here after the second leg next Wednesday.
(Oh, are you wondering about our goal that VAR ruled out? I haven't even bothered watching a replay and can't imagine I will).
Team
GK 98. YAMAGUCHI Louis
DF 31. VAN WERMESKERKEN Sai
DF 2. TAKAI Kota
DF 35. MARUYAMA Yuichi
DF 13. MIURA Sota
MF 19. KAWAHARA So
MF 77. YAMAMOTO Yuki
MF 37. ITO Tatsuya
MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 23. MARCINHO (Yellow card 43')
FW 20. YAMADA Shin
Subs
GK 1. JUNG Sung-Ryong
GK 21. ANDO Shunsuke
DF 5. SASAKI Asahi (Yellow card 90+3') (on for VAN WERMESKERKEN 59')
DF 7. KURUMAYA Shintaro
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento
FW 9. ERISON (on for YAMADA 80')
DF 15. TANABE Shuto
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto (on for YAMAMOTO 85')
FW 24. MIYAGI Ten
FW 30. SEGAWA Yusuke (on for ITO 80')
FW 32. KANDA Soma
FW 41. IENAGA Akihiro (on for MARCINHO 46')
Goals
TAKAI (Frontale) 76' OWN GOAL 1-0
Highlights
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