The referee of course. The second big blunder was when he didn't gave Reds a PK after obvious Neto's hand that entire stadium saw but he didn't. Those were bigger faults. I'm not even mentioning goal kicks that ended as corner kicks and vice versa, little fouls here and there... Reds weren't worse than Frontale in this game. It would be hard to guess which team just got 90 minutes in the final of AFC CL and who spent last week on couches in front of TV...
Oh, I didn't see the handball - did they replay it on TV? In any case the ref was obviously reluctant to hand out a second booking, whether to Ienaga or Neto or anyone else. I think that is an okay approach given that the fouls were all honest challenges, rather than being dangerous or cynical. Agreed that Frontale looked pretty lethargic today - Abe and Kengo were invisible (probably has to do with why Oniki gambled by keeping Ienaga on the pitch), and the Reds' reserves looked pretty motivated to make an impression.
Nope, there weren't any replays of that handball on NHK, neither on DAZN. But for sure you could use replay on your own device and zoom it a bit to see a little clearer浦和の選手猛抗議のエドゥワルドネットのハンドシーン。vsガンバ戦でも谷口の明らかなハンドがあったけど、川崎は得してるなあ。こういうの見るとビデオ判定も必要だと感じてしまう。 pic.twitter.com/AaX2RGsvYd— サタツ (@gambalove12) November 29, 2017 Well, I remember that after one foul it looked like he knew he will get a yellow card as the ref rushed towards him but he looked pretty relieved after all that Matsuo did was spraying the line from which Reds should restart the play Ienaga did little, not serious fouls but after 3 or 4 of them (depending on the referee) in a short span of time (like 30-45 minutes) you get booked just for the number of it. That night Matsuo's limit for those who could miss the last week because of yellow cards accumulation was probably set on 10 at least
Lol Kashima choked in the end. Anyway, it is nice to have a new winner. And also, it is better to have Kashiwa in the ACL, given their record there.
That Ueda's goal though... どこがファールなんだよ？#antlers#jubilo #jleague#Jリーグ pic.twitter.com/4apPLlbyHe— 赤岩薔薇郎🌹(軽度潰瘍性大腸炎) (@RRRM666666) December 2, 2017
Oh, and ome to all who supported Kawasaki this year as there were some folks here. It's pretty funny that the two teams with the strongest fisnish of the season (with 4 win and a draw) was Frontale and... yes, Albirex! Good luck for them next year as they should be in J1 for good.
And Mihailo Petrovic to Consadole. I really liked Yomoda, and he had some great results with the club as well so surprised to see him leave. Not impressed with what Petrovic did at Urawa (perennial under-performers), but his legacy from Hiroshima is good and he might be a good fit for a club like Consadole.
It seems that Yomoda will continue as an assistant coach. Consadole is just using the same tactics that produced Moriyasu and Takafumi Hori: Contract Petrovic for a time, who is good just at teaching his assistants coachs how to coach well, and then fire him for the assistant coach to take the healm.
Yomoda should have stayed as main coach. A little bit strange that he accepted the assistant role. How the players will look at him because he did a very good job there in two years. I don't know what Consadole board wants. I think under Yomoda it was still room for improvement.
Lol, wonder how the Cerezo fans feel about this. Cerezo under Culpi played some of the prettiest football they have ever played imo. Loved watching that team.
The 2017 J-League Best Eleven: GK: Kosuke Nakamura DF: Shoji Gen, Daigo Nishi, Elsinho, Shintaro Kurumaya MF: Kengo Nakamura, Yosuke Ideguchi, Hotaru Yamaguchi FW: Shinzo Koroki, Yu Kobayashi, Kenyu Sugimoto MVP: Yu Kobayashi