Barry writes:Hirayama 16
FC Tokyo win 3-2 on aggregate
Att. 22181
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Right, suggestions for fun ways to spend Culture Day please? It suddenly became freed up.
Errr, sorry, what? ;-)It was a bit of disaster all round for our boys. Nagai limped off before the first half was even up and Aoyama went off injured on 56 minutes. Despite that, and the lack of Iwashita and Okazaki which had an obvious impact, for spells we looked OK. However, the fact we had nearly double the corners but only half the shots of the home team tells the story.
Perhaps a quarter of our turn out
Coming out to rapturous welcomeThere was a lot of forward movement and nice passing play which carved routes through the Tokyo midfield, but the end product just wasn't there. The one or two clear cut shots we had ended up in the stands or in the safe hands of Gonda.
No Hara on ｔhe bench (he's still out for another week or so) meant we were reduced to throwing Nagasawa on for the last 20 minutes. No disrespect to him, but when he's your final roll of the dice to get goals, you pretty much know it's a lost cause.
No Hara on ｔhe bench (he's still out for another week or so) meant we were reduced to throwing Nagasawa on for the last 20 minutes. No disrespect to him, but when he's your final roll of the dice to get goals, you pretty much know it's a lost cause.
Full time and the cup dream is over for another yearSo in isolation, and given the absence of Okazaki, Iwashita, Hara, and Nagai and Aoyama's enforced substitutions, not a horrendous performance. But of course, this was a cup semi-final second leg which we had to win. We didn't, and wouldn't have if we'd played till midnight, so that's that for 2009's Nabisco Cup run.
My best wishes to the fans of Kawasaki and Tokyo - cup final day is a wonderful experience, so have a great one. Me? I'll be washing my hair...
Line Up
GK K. Yamamoto
DF Ichikawa
DF Aoyama
DF Arata
DF Ota
MF Edamura
MF Honda
MF Ito
MF Hyodo
FW Johnsen
FW Nagai
Subs Used
Fujimoto on for Nagai (42)
Hiraoka on for Aoyama (56)
Nagasawa on for Ito (70)
Videos etc
Reports from The Rising Sun can be read here. Official pictures can be found here (top row).
Highlights of this, and the other, semi final:
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