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Week 27 of the J-League
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Results from week twenty-seven of the J-League, tightened-up the table with a stunning upset of Ōita and both Kashima and Kawasaki victorious whilst Nagoya and Urawa Red Diamonds fought to a draw.
Yokohama F･Marinos 1
Oita Trinita 0
The shock of the weekend that could cost Ōita the championship. Yokohama played a brilliant tactical match, winning the day [...]
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week 26 recap of J-League
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Mid-week action of week 26 of the J-League completed, excluding Urawa, Gamba and Kashima participating in the AFC Champions League with the enormous table-quaking upset of Nagoya Grampus Eight by JEF United Ichihara-Chiba. This has massive implications on the race and should the Red Diamonds win their upcoming match, the top of the J-League [...]
Category: J League NewsAFC Champions League summary
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Thoughts of all J-League final in the AFC Champions League disappeared as A-League’s Adelaide United defeated Kashima Antlers 1-0 at Hindmarsh Stadium. The Antlers ongoing offensive draught continued and needing to overtake Adelaide after a 1-1 draw they were held scoreless in a well defended match. With seventeen minutes left in the match Robert Cornthwaite [...]
Category: J League Newsweek 25 of the J-League
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I would like to tell you that week twenty-five of the J-League featured a series of surprising upsets but for the most part each match ended with a predictable outcome as the top three clubs; Nagoya Grampus, Urawa Red Diamonds and Oita Trinita all won but Kashiwa Antler’s scoring problems continued to grow as they [...]
Category: J League NewsUpcoming J-League action
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Since this blog started recently and many of you are unfamiliar with the J-League I thought it best to give you a brief look at this weekends schedule and provide special notation of important domestic players to watch. Please note, this is just a start so don’t be upset if I left a favourite player [...]
Category: J League Newssummary of AFC Champions League
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The first leg of the AFC Champions League completed with a number of surprises and definitely varying performance of J-League clubs. Hopes of all three of our teams took a fall with Kashima drawing at home to Adelaide and the Red Diamonds loosing to Kuwait’s Al Qadsia 3-2. Gamba Osaka, after a poor season was [...]
Category: J League Newswhere have the Kashima Antlers went?
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Where has the best offensive attack in the J-League went?
Over the last few weeks the Kashima Antlers attack has been slowly disappearing and today, it faded away completely. After the mid-July blowout against FC Tokyo the club has been struggling to score and while I had thought it may have been solved with the Tokyo [...]
Category: J League NewsAFC Champions League
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The AFC Champions League moves to the quarter-finals with J-League clubs dominating the round. Kashima Antlers, Gamba Osaka and the defending champions, Urawa Red Diamonds play later today in the following matches:
Kashima Antlers – Adelaide United
Kashima plowed through competition in group stages netting four goals per match however of late in the J-League they [...]
Category: J League NewsJ-League update for week 24
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From J-League action this week, the race to the championship still has Nagoya out front at the end of week twenty-four but Kashima, Urawa and Ōita tied three points behind and Kawasaki Frontale only one point behind them.
Past the Urawa – Ōita match, Nagoya Grampus defeated Gamba Osaka 1-0 on a early goal by Yoshizumi [...]
Category: J League NewsOita Trinita versus Urawa Red Diamonds summary
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With forty-five thousand in attendance at Saitama Stadium the Oita Trinita – Urawa Red Diamonds match played to a nil draw.
Ōita’s defense was perfect again and their record of not allowing a goal stretches to four-hundred twenty minutes. At every turn Red Diamonds maestro, Yuki Abe, efforts were thwarted and virtually all crossing attempts [...]
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