Official 2013 J1 Thread

Tomisawa played as MF all year but is listed as DF...this gives a general idea of the style Marinos adopted all season.

BTW i'd rather have Tulio than Makino in the list...

 

I totally understand you and agrees also, but if you turn it around that defense made them runnersup.

 

They had a good defense but there is no way that their entire defense was top 12 jesus christ.

 

LOL. Everything gets turned into cartoons in Japan.

Anyway, here's the new brazuca with a J-League mark that will be used in the 2014 season:

 

1. Kashiwa Reysol
2. Urawa Red Diamonds
3. Sanfrecce Hiroshima
4. Kashima Antlers
5. Jubilo Iwata
6. FC Tokyo
7. Sagan Tosu
8. Vegalta Sendai
9. Nagoya Grampus
10. Yokohama F. Marinos
11. Omiya Ardija
12. Cerezo Osaka
13. Ventforet Kofu
14. Albirex Niigata
15. Shimizu S-Pulse
16. Kawasaki Frontale
17. Shonan Bellmare
18. Oita Trinita



What is the above? It is my fail table. Aka League Table I predicted before the start of the season.

Green are the teams I am satistifed with my prediction since they moved around those places or close enough.
Blue is a mistake but not really all that great imo.
Red is the teams I got wrong
Purple is the teams I epically failed mostly because I underestimated them well 2 of them I am quite sure majority if not all epically failed to predict because we overestimated them Kashiwa and Jubilo

Here so that it is known I come clean on stuff... heh

 

Frontale @ 16th! You really must not rate Kazama.

 

My prediction was on point, the 18 teams were charted as they actually finished.

 

here is my prediction

As you see I make few mistakes in the line up itself with the most important one being Okubo on top not inner striker second striker role...
I also wrote that the game in attack will be based on Renato Okubo and Nakamura but that basically I dont see much different from season before and expect decline.

It is not that I didnt rate Kawasaki or Kazama about who I wrote that likes discipline and hard work and I also knew fully well what their plans before season were title race or at least top 3.

I totally and fully underestimated and undervalued Okubo lmao x infinity


But I admit it here black on white my bad heh


I guess top scorer 26 goals makes the difference ?

 

The way Kazama deployed Okubo was a real masterstroke - I doubt anyone really saw this renaissance coming. After the mess last season and nepotism etc., I was starting to regard the manager as overhyped so the season was a pleasant surprise. Looking forward to what they have in store during the winter transfer window.

 

As an interesting fact I went to see just how many points Okubo got them with his own goals alone

1. 33 round Win 0-1 instead of draw Oita (2 points)
2. 31. round win with 2:0 instead of draw against Shimizu (2 points)
3. 28. round win 3:1 instead of draw against Kashiwa (2 points)
4. 27. round win 1-2 instead of draw against Nagoya (2 points)
5. 23. round win 2-1 instead of draw against Omiya (2 points)
6. 21. round win 1-3 instead of draw Ventforet (2 points)
7. 20. round draw 2-2 instead of loss Tokyo (1 point)
8. 17. round win 2-3 instead of draw Omiya (2 points)
9. 14 round win 4-2 instead of draw Kashima (2 points)
10. 13. round win 2-1 instead of loss Albirex (3 points)
11. 11. round draw 2-2 instead of loss Cerezo (1 point)
12. 7. round win 4-2 instead of draw Vegalta (2 points)
13. 2. round draw 1-1 instead of loss Oita (1 point)

In other words 24 points by just these goals (naturally he scored others as well and made assists and extra contribution to the Kawasaki's game)

With 24 points less Kawasaki would currently have total of 36 points and be exactly in 16. place heh.

But ok lets say that he would score half of the above vital goals aka he would decide only every second game out of the above(the bolded ones) than Okuba would still contributed 11 points with only his goals and would have still bagged
17 goals in a season which is a nice score for a striker just not an exceptional one.

In that case with 13 points less Kawasaki would have 47 points and would be in 11th place in the league.


Just interesting statistic nothing more. One which reminds me just how much I underestimated Okubo

 

Oh I could talk for hours about anime character archetypes

 

Recent goals are remembered better than old ones.....

 

I like how the awards panned

Would have picked Yamashita in the back though agree with all the rest

 

The hair on the old pic looks so much as the hair Maezono had in 1993.

 

Is that Naoki in the background?
Now I'm sad all over again.

 

Do you know which striker scores a goal every 57 minutes and doesn't get mentioned ?

 

...

 

New Vegalta Sendai logo:

 

Tokyo at 6th. All right.

 

That for real?

cause i mean will they change the number each year?