hahaha Tulio just owned Walcott, while he was doing like 20 feints, it was hilarious. edit: Tulio with a super-pass, ogawa completely missing the ball while in front of the keeper. also just saw the first Arsenal goal..... welp... dat JLeague defending =( players watching the ball and nothing else...
Nagoya totally sluggish, could have lost by 5, 6, 7 if it wasn't for Narazaki superb saves. Ryo wasn't brilliant but at least he scored and did not get hurt.
And yeah Nagoya. Also their fans werent exactly heard. I bet at least in that area Reds will be better
kudos to you for watching this meaningless friendly between Nagoya and the money grabbers, I couldn't have.
Ryo clearly lacked match fitness. There was no sign of his usual electric pace. Did a lot of back pass and did not offer much to the team. His off-the ball movement was not good, he stuck to the wing to much hence did not see a lot of ball. This may be due to his lack of fitness ==>could not make himself available for teammates to pass. However he did score a goal, hope it will help improve his confidence. BTW, it seems all those lengthy injury affect his game, he seems to be afraid of dribbling into opposition area and scare of getting into tackles. This is a difficult time for him, need to get rid of those mental issues to be come a true warrior on the field. Comparing Ryo to Nagai, those Nagai does not have a lot of tricks in the bag like Ryo, he clearly has more gut. It seem Ryo is lacking the hunger for winning, the determine to burst his lung to press the opponent the whole game like Nagai
Then for you he's finished and he deserve not to play even in meaningless friendly for the rest of his life? Maybe he need to change sport or profession from ur pov? However, happy he scored, he need confidence as water in a desert.
LOL. Translation: the home crowd and the sponsors of the friendly would not have been happy otherwise. Anyway, hope this can be a breakout season for him. He should probably go on loan sooner than later to melt into the team better before the season kicks start.
Ryo starting warm up in the friendly against Reds. Someone can explain me why Petrovic continues to say the same word, something like "JUGA JUGA JUGA!!!"
He usually screams Genki!! Genki!!!! whenever he stops running for a second so I'd say that now his favorite player on pitch is UGA!!!jin.
Petrovic screamed a lot for Ugajin and Shuto (Kojima). Wenger quotes after the match: http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/wenger-on-urawa-reds-ryo-and-gnabry
Yeah, I just read this in Nikkansports. Ryo replied along the lines that he needs to study at the top level, and figure out how to better use his speed.