Cerezo Osaka 2 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale
Well that was a bit of a mess. Looking only at the result it might appear that it should be celebrated as a win at a ground where we hadn’t won for five years by a couple of clear goals. But for most of the game we had a an extra man. And we lost the lead twice, as we seem to enjoy to doing recently. And really we were kind of shit to be honest. People will obviously be delighted that Kobayashi managed his first minutes in the league for who knows how long. But really the focus should be that we never really looked like we had the extra man and for long parts of the match it seemed like ten men Cerezo would be the ones more likely to win the match. They had more shots than us. They looked more like they were up for attacking than us. If we hadn’t got the fourth goal late on we could easily have drawn this match as at no stage did it look like we were steady at the back. I haven’t got a clue what’s going on with us. Our next game against, another Kansai team, is coming up soon. Would love another spawny win given who the opposition are.
The regular midfield was back again and played pretty poorly I thought. I know this sounds ridiculous as both Tachibanada and Wakizaka scored but we did have an extra man for over 70 minutes and still couldn’t really take control of the game. Hasebe brining on Ozeki for Marcinho late on and playing him on the left wing was a weird one too. But once again is something that is difficult to criticise as he scored too. Derik was very quiet up front. Marcinho could have scored at least twice but both were ruled out for offside by a linesman who afterwards came in for some criticism from me in my perfect location to judge offsides, standing right behind the goal. Can’t remember if it was three or four times that we put the ball in the net and were denied by that guy. After Miura and Wakizaka’s recent bust up I was wondering if things were back to normal but there was one situation where Wakizaka totally messed up a pass to Miura and Miura either didn’t see or ignored his reconciliatory hand touch. I guess at least he didn’t launch into a tirade but still seems like things aren't too good in that department. Miura was really good in this game I thought, a rare shining light. But any type of trouble between him and Wakizaka might now not be relevant for the foreseeable future as Miura went off injured at the end. Add to this Romano being changed at half time, (I thought because he was getting pretty annoyed with the ref’s uselessness and had already been booked, but after the match he was definitely limping and basically looked fucked. He didn’t come to greet the fans afterwards. I thought it might be for interview purposes, but it later looked more like he might not be able to walk that far). Oh and Sasaki was injured in the first half too and subbed. I think this one was more a cautionary measure than a necessary change so hopefully he’s ok. Miura’s injury looked the worst. Absolutely typical after he finally came into some form. Of course Taniguchi is already injured. And Noda is also now injured. So I guess there’s going to be some U21 starters coming into the first team so presumably some U18s into the U21s which is not good news as the U18 team now sit bottom of their league. Ugh. But I guess it wouldn’t be a Frontale season without a defensive crisis, would it? So to sum up our part of the game, we were shit, somehow won, but picked up loads of injuries. Hmmmm.
There’s not a great deal to say about Cerezo or the ref to be honest but I’ll do my best. Cerezo looked the better team but their shooting was awful for the most part. Their striker was an absolute lump and behaved like a wanker for most of the match. He repeatedly did everything that annoys me about a nasty player, hacking, diving and whining. I was delighted to see the ref give him a booking for dissent. (After a foul THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN HIS WAY YET STILL HE WAS MOANING!) As for the ref, he was just a bit useless. He definitely lost control and let things get out of hand. He also appeared to be refereeing by consensus, giving the decisions to whoever complained the most. I haven’t seen any replays but I reckon the red card was right. (Of course VAR agreed, but the VAR guy was absolutely the junior partner compared to the ref, even though the ref himself would be the junior in most other situations). At the time I was shouting for a red, but given the ref’s flakiness, I fully expected it to be overturned. But mercifully it wasn’t. The Cerezo fans after the match seemed to not have appreciated his performance which I thought was a bit strange as as far as I could see, he was being absolutely hopeless but in a perfectly impartial way. I’ve found one note that I made saying that the decision for their penalty was insanely bad, but it was at the other end of the pitch and I haven’t seen a replay. I’ll check it after I post this but leave this uninformed judgement here for your entertainment.
Next up Vissel Kobe at home on Wednesday. Given our injury crisis it’s a bit unfortunate that we now seem to have games coming relentlessly after a few weeks off of league action. I wonder if we might see Ueno from the U15 team get on the bench at some stage. This seems a bit of a strange thing to say, but he’s been standing out at both U18 and U21 levels and maybe the club might want to get him involved for the fan excitement and potential publicity. After all, given our absolutely random form we might as well do something to generate some interest as clearly we’re not going to be troubling the top of the table any time soon. After Kobe, we’re at home again on Sunday against Okayama. Our form is so random that there’s no telling what might happen in either of these games, so let’s at least keep our fingers crossed that they turn out to be at least entertaining and hopefully not disastrous.
The regular midfield was back again and played pretty poorly I thought. I know this sounds ridiculous as both Tachibanada and Wakizaka scored but we did have an extra man for over 70 minutes and still couldn’t really take control of the game. Hasebe brining on Ozeki for Marcinho late on and playing him on the left wing was a weird one too. But once again is something that is difficult to criticise as he scored too. Derik was very quiet up front. Marcinho could have scored at least twice but both were ruled out for offside by a linesman who afterwards came in for some criticism from me in my perfect location to judge offsides, standing right behind the goal. Can’t remember if it was three or four times that we put the ball in the net and were denied by that guy. After Miura and Wakizaka’s recent bust up I was wondering if things were back to normal but there was one situation where Wakizaka totally messed up a pass to Miura and Miura either didn’t see or ignored his reconciliatory hand touch. I guess at least he didn’t launch into a tirade but still seems like things aren't too good in that department. Miura was really good in this game I thought, a rare shining light. But any type of trouble between him and Wakizaka might now not be relevant for the foreseeable future as Miura went off injured at the end. Add to this Romano being changed at half time, (I thought because he was getting pretty annoyed with the ref’s uselessness and had already been booked, but after the match he was definitely limping and basically looked fucked. He didn’t come to greet the fans afterwards. I thought it might be for interview purposes, but it later looked more like he might not be able to walk that far). Oh and Sasaki was injured in the first half too and subbed. I think this one was more a cautionary measure than a necessary change so hopefully he’s ok. Miura’s injury looked the worst. Absolutely typical after he finally came into some form. Of course Taniguchi is already injured. And Noda is also now injured. So I guess there’s going to be some U21 starters coming into the first team so presumably some U18s into the U21s which is not good news as the U18 team now sit bottom of their league. Ugh. But I guess it wouldn’t be a Frontale season without a defensive crisis, would it? So to sum up our part of the game, we were shit, somehow won, but picked up loads of injuries. Hmmmm.
There’s not a great deal to say about Cerezo or the ref to be honest but I’ll do my best. Cerezo looked the better team but their shooting was awful for the most part. Their striker was an absolute lump and behaved like a wanker for most of the match. He repeatedly did everything that annoys me about a nasty player, hacking, diving and whining. I was delighted to see the ref give him a booking for dissent. (After a foul THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN HIS WAY YET STILL HE WAS MOANING!) As for the ref, he was just a bit useless. He definitely lost control and let things get out of hand. He also appeared to be refereeing by consensus, giving the decisions to whoever complained the most. I haven’t seen any replays but I reckon the red card was right. (Of course VAR agreed, but the VAR guy was absolutely the junior partner compared to the ref, even though the ref himself would be the junior in most other situations). At the time I was shouting for a red, but given the ref’s flakiness, I fully expected it to be overturned. But mercifully it wasn’t. The Cerezo fans after the match seemed to not have appreciated his performance which I thought was a bit strange as as far as I could see, he was being absolutely hopeless but in a perfectly impartial way. I’ve found one note that I made saying that the decision for their penalty was insanely bad, but it was at the other end of the pitch and I haven’t seen a replay. I’ll check it after I post this but leave this uninformed judgement here for your entertainment.
Next up Vissel Kobe at home on Wednesday. Given our injury crisis it’s a bit unfortunate that we now seem to have games coming relentlessly after a few weeks off of league action. I wonder if we might see Ueno from the U15 team get on the bench at some stage. This seems a bit of a strange thing to say, but he’s been standing out at both U18 and U21 levels and maybe the club might want to get him involved for the fan excitement and potential publicity. After all, given our absolutely random form we might as well do something to generate some interest as clearly we’re not going to be troubling the top of the table any time soon. After Kobe, we’re at home again on Sunday against Okayama. Our form is so random that there’s no telling what might happen in either of these games, so let’s at least keep our fingers crossed that they turn out to be at least entertaining and hopefully not disastrous.
Team
GK 49. Svend BRODERSEN
DF 5. SASAKI Asahi
DF 4. PEDRO ROMANO (Yellow card 36')
DF 22. Filip UREMOVIC
DF 13. MIURA Sota
MF 8. TACHIBANADA Kento
MF 6. YAMAMOTO Yuki
MF 17. ITO Tatsuya
MF 14. WAKIZAKA Yasuto
MF 23. MARCINHO
FW 97. DERIK LACERDA
Subs
GK 1. YAMAGUCHI Louis
FW 11. KOBAYASHI Yu (on for DERIK LACERDA 86')
MF 16. OZEKI Yuto (on for MARCINHO 75')
MF 19. KAWAHARA So (on for TACHIBANADA 87')
FW 20. MOCHIYAMA Kyosuke
MF 25. YAMAICHI Shuto
DF 28. MARUYAMA Yuichi (on for PEDRO ROMANO 46')
DF 29. YAMAHARA Reon (Yellow card 41') (on for SASAKI 31')
FW 34. OSA Ryuki
Man of the match
There’s only one player who I could give this too as no one else, (apart from Kawahara, with a lovely assist in his five minute cameo), seemed to do much. So it goes to…
MIURA SOTA - looked dangerous going forward and actually did his defensive stuff too. Absolutely gutted that he’s now got injured as well as that will mean we might also miss out on the continuing drama through micro aggressions between him and Wakizaka.
MIURA SOTA - looked dangerous going forward and actually did his defensive stuff too. Absolutely gutted that he’s now got injured as well as that will mean we might also miss out on the continuing drama through micro aggressions between him and Wakizaka.
Goals
PEDRO ROMANO (Frontale) 10' 0-1
FERNANDES (Cerezo) PEN 43' 1-1
TACHIBANADA (Frontale) 45+3' 1-2
KOMI (Cerezo) 48' 2-2
WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 74' 2-3
OZEKI (Frontale) 89' 2-4
PEDRO ROMANO (Frontale) 10' 0-1
FERNANDES (Cerezo) PEN 43' 1-1
TACHIBANADA (Frontale) 45+3' 1-2
KOMI (Cerezo) 48' 2-2
WAKIZAKA (Frontale) 74' 2-3
OZEKI (Frontale) 89' 2-4
Highlights
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