It's
been a while since Jin-Hyeon made this kind of blunder and
unfortunately it cost us today as we suffered our first defeat in the
league when it allowed Yasushi Endo to score the winner in the 58th
minute. Some of our early season performances haven't warranted the
points we've been getting so it's no surprise about the result
although the manner of the loss is frustrating. FC Tokyo visit Osaka
for a Nabisco Cup match on Wednesday night.
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Saturday, 16 March 2013
2nd with a 100% record...after 3 games
Didn't
make it to the game but these highlights (and commentary if you
understand Japanese) can't really do justice to a couple of crucial
offside decisions leading to a goal for Cerezo's Hotaru Yamaguchi and
one disallowed for FC Tokyo. Next game is in the Nabisco Cup
against Grampus in Nagoya. That's on Wednesday 20th at 4pm as it's a public holiday here in
Japan to celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
Friday, 15 March 2013
Notching up 2 wins in 2
A
great start from us led to a Kakitani goal after some fine work from
Sugimoto early on. Leaving Hugo unmarked in the 6 yard box after a
corner could only mean a Kofu equaliser later in the 1st
half. Culpi might have been annoyed with the two Brazilians Edno and
Simplicio who both picked up yellow cards just before half time and
were taken off at the interval with Edamura and Minamino replacing
them. The promising teenager hit the post in the 79th
minute and Yamaguchi was well placed to slam home the rebound. This
was a vast improvement on what we saw last week. Not a great
performance though but we have a 100% record so no complaints! Next
up is another team with two wins in two, FC Tokyo. They travel down
from the vast overcrowded soulless metropolis that is Tokyo to the
vibrant, friendly, foodie Osaka.
Sunday, 3 March 2013
A partridge amongst the pigeons
This obviously made me chuckle, nice subtitle and he's in pink and navy!
Cerezo kick off the season with a win
Kakitani's
calm finish secured an incredibly undeserved 3 points as Albirex will
be wondering how they are going home with nothing. No outfield player
for us performed particularly well as Jin-Hyeon had to be in top form
to keep us in the game. Worryingly our new no.9 Edno “the Rock”
lived up to his nickname by being a motionless inanimate object for
most of the game before being subbed. Hopefully Culpi will change the
starting line-up for the next game as quite a few players failed to
impress but Ogihara's introduction added some urgency and bite to the
midfield. An unexepectedly depressing moment came as we brought on
the re-branded Branquinho who now goes by “Branco”. This is a guy
we have on loan and we subsequently loaned to Yamagata in J2 as he
proved to be largely ineffective last year. As he came on looking at
his name on the scoreboard I thought it was a new signing until on
closer inspection it turned out to be our unsuccessful loaned loanee
sneaking back on to the pitch under a different name, very odd. In
other news congratulations to Shinji Kagawa who grabbed a hat-trick
in the early hours this morning for Man U against Norwich. Man U will
visit Osaka in the summer for a friendly bringing with them
overpriced tickets, an extra game in the middle of the J1 season and
the Japanese superstar we sold for 350,000 Euros. All said and done
we got 3 points but if we can't improve drastically we could well be
flirting with relegation again.
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Highlights of the "Invitation Super Match 2013"
This match was against our Thai partner team Bangkok Glass FC as part of the pre-season training camp. It took place on the 7th of February in Thailand and finished 2-1 to us.
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| The "Glass Rabbits" Badge |
Saturday, 2 February 2013
New uniform, 2013 fixtures and a reminder of why the number 8 is so important!
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| First match of the season in Nagai Stadium |
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| New kit revealed |
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| "Adventure" (Dancing Heart) Our slogan for this season |
| Here are the first set of fixtures in J1 with the kick off times available. The rest can be found here in Japanese. There's a pleasing number of Saturday afternoon games before summer and we start the season in Nagai Stadium. Golden week fixtures this year feature an away trip to Shonan Bellmare and Nagoya Grampus at home. Strange not seeing another Kansai team here as we keep our fingers crossed that Gamba can make it to the JFL this year. The new kits are looking good. New signing Kusukami has the number 10 while Kakitani inherits the number 8 once worn by club legend Hiroaki Morishima. No number 9 yet as the club have yet to finalise the Edno Cunha signing. Pre-season we're heading to Thailand to face our partner club Bangkok Glass on the 7th this month. Click here for more information on the partnership. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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