One thing I learned is to calm the f down about Urawa. True bakaness was shown and I live and fell on the sword of personal idiocy about them. I lacked maturity for sure and don't even expect forgiveness for it. Burying the hatchet on the topic. Just glad YFM got +3. Sigh
Things are not going very well at Urawa. Not only because of results, but was a training row between Lee and Sekine.
Sekine won. But that was horrible game. Lowest of the low, and of al teams being ahead in the table there's Jubilo... Depressing stuff. But in Kobe they have it even worse.
I still don't get why isn't he in Europe or in JNT. This is madness, he's a class 95'. Only greatest do those kind of things.
Well, it was 90+2 minute, a draw and decisive play of the game. It might have been awful defending but the opponents were tired and no one would expect such individual effort there. It will be legendary for Reds supporters. And it will remembered for years in Japan. Just like Haraguchi's hopeless goal against Omiya (it ended with a draw).
Sure sure, not taking anything out of the whole outline. It's just the goal itself that is far from memorable for me. Like, you show it to somebody who doesn't know anything about the match situation and it'd be hard to be impressed. "Let's see what happens if I just keep walking". Not so amazing.
nope. Both Manabu and Sekine scored good and unimpressive goals, this just falls in the second category
Maybe the best team from Japan will save the season by winning the Champions League. With such competition this campaing it's difficult to think that they will will the J-League.
Jan Jönsson have replaced Moriyasu at Sanfrecce Hiroshima. http://www.sanfrecce.co.jp/news/release/?n=10842 He's previously played for Sanfrecce, and have had a pretty successful manager career in Norway, taking Stabæk ( Kobayashi's old club) from the 2nd division to miraculously win the league in just a few years, but then only managed to get 2 bronze medals with the powerhouse Rosenborg before he was sacked. His most recent success is taking Halmstad up to the top division in Sweden last season, but were moved to sports director role after poor results a few months ago. He's very good at working with young players, and from his time in Norway, his teams were also known for playing quite attractive football.
Interesting. Does he usually plays with a 3-back system? Will Sanfrecce change the system they have used for the last 10 years?
Not in Norway he did, not sure what he did last season with Halmstad. At Stabæk he played a 4-3-1-2 formation, and at Rosenborg the managers are "forced" to play the Rosenborg-way which is 4-3-3, so would expect something similar to that at Sanfrecce too.
What's going on with Urawa? It seems the team is in real chaos! HT against Cerezo and they are already losing 1-4!!!! Last match at home they barely won against bottom of the table team Albirex Niigata 2-1. Really, what's going on?
Hey, it's 2-4!!! Pathetic defence and many things out of the pitch I assume... Nishikawa is one of the worst keepers in J1 this season...
Hiroki Abe, 18 years-old and deciding the match against Sevilla. His playing style is compared to Motoyama.