Week 27 of the J-League

By: 21 | September 28th, 2008

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 in the midfield and greatly limited Trinita’s attacking lines. Fourteen minutes after the break Kenta Kano scored the lone goal and regardless of how Pericles Chamusca threw attackers forward, they could not level the match.

Yokohama F･Marinos
1 Tetsuya ENOMOTO
4 Yuzo KURIHARA,22 Yuji NAKAZAWA,26 Yusuke TANAKA,
7 Hayuma TANAKA (18′ Norihisa SHIMIZU 64′),6 Ryuji KAWAI,17 Shingo HYODO ,13 Takanobu KOMIYAMA ,14 Kenta KANO
15 Hideo OSHIMA (20 Kota MIZUNUMA 78′),11 Daisuke SAKATA (29 Ariajasuru HASEGAWA 89′)

Oita Trinita
16 Seigo SHIMOKAWA
4 Yuki FUKAYA,6 Masato MORISHIGE,22 Taikai UEMOTO
3 ROBERTO,5 EDMILSON (14 Akihiro IENAGA 71′),8 Mu KANAZAKI, 11 Shingo SUZUKI,20 Daisuke TAKAHASHI (2′ Ryo KOBAYASHI 88′)
9 Yasuhito MORISHIMA (13 Daiki TAKAMATSU 71′),10 UESLEI

Nagoya Grampus Eight 1
Urawa Red Diamonds 1
The upper tier match-up played in a tight fashion with the Red Diamonds taking the lead five minutes for the half with Edmilson’s goal. However the lead didn’t last long after the break as two minutes into time Yuki Maki leveled the match. Nagoya was more aggressive in the final stages, changing up pace with Keita Sugimoto but they couldn’t break through.

Nagoya Grampus Eight
1 Seigo NARAZAKI
30 Akira TAKEUCHI,3 BAJALICA,16 Takahiro MASUKAWA,6 Shohei ABE
7 Naoshi NAKAMURA,14 Keiji YOSHIMURA,29 Yoshizumi OGAWA
17 Yuki MAKI,9 JOHNSEN (19 Keita SUGIMOTO 73′),11 Keiji TAMADA (5 Atsushi YONEYAMA 86′)

Urawa Red Diamonds
23 Ryota TSUZUKI
2 Keisuke TSUBOI,4 Marcus Tulio TANAKA,22 Yuki ABE
14 Tadaaki HIRAKAWA,3 Hajime HOSOGAI, 13 Keita SUZUKI, 16 Takahito SOMA,10 PONTE
17 EDMILSON,7 Naohiro TAKAHARA (9 Yuichiro NAGAI 62′)

Kashima Antlers 2
Shimizu S-Pulse 0
The troubled Antlers offense woke-up with a bruising attack the was more of an amazement that the score was only 2-0. Takeshi Aoki opened up the scoring twenty minutes into the match with Marquinhos doubling the lead four minutes before the break.

Kashima Antlers
21 Hitoshi SOGAHATA
2 Atsuto UCHIDA,3 Daiki IWAMASA,19 Masahiko INOHA,7 Toru ARAIBA
15 Takeshi AOKI,16 Masaki CHUGO ,10 Masashi MOTOYAMA (14 Chikashi MASUDA 59′),11 DANILO (6 Koji NAKATA 88′),
13 Shinzo KOROKI (33 MARCINHO 82′),18 MARQUINHOS

Shimizu S-Pulse
29 Kaito YAMAMOTO
25 Daisuke ICHIKAWA,26 Naoaki AOYAMA,4 Kazumichi TAKAGI,2 Arata KODAMA
6 MARCOS PAULO,7 Teruyoshi ITO,28 Masaki YAMAMOTO (13 Akihiro HYODO 45′),8 Takuma EDAMURA (19 Kazuki HARA 72′)
23 Shinji OKAZAKI,20 Akinori NISHIZAWA (9 Takuro YAJIMA 55′)

Kashiwa Reysol 2
Kawasaki Frontale 5
Kawasaki Frontale opened-up a four goal lead at the half is a easily walked away with the victory. Chong Tese opened the scoring seconds into the match followed up with his second of the match just past the half hour mark. Kengo Nakamura and Renatinho made it 4-0 before the half and the match was ostensibly over. Kashiwa made a valiant effort with two honourable goals by Minoru Suganuma and Yohei Kurakawa within eighteen minutes after the break but that was as close as it got. Juninho added the final goal for Kawasaki as time ran-out

Kashiwa Reysol
33 Takanori SUGENO
23 Yohei KURAKAWA,2 Jiro KAMATA,13 Yuzo KOBAYASHI ,7 Hidekazu OTANI
14 Keisuke OTA,28 Ryoichi KURISAWA (15 Minoru SUGANUMA 45′),18 Iwao YAMANE,6 ALEX
10 FRANCA, 11 POPO

Kawasaki Frontale
1 Eiji KAWASHIMA
4 Yusuke IGAWA,13 Shuhei TERADA ,2 Hiroki ITO
8 Satoru YAMAGISHI ,14 Kengo NAKAMURA ,29 Hiroyuki TANIGUCHI ,11 VITOR JUNIOR(6 Yusuke TASAKA 89′)
34 RENATINHO (7 Masaru KUROTSU 60′),16 CHONG Tese,10 JUNINHO

Consadole Sapporo 1
F.C.Tokyo 2
Great come-from-behind victory of F.C. Tokyo. Behind 1-0 to bottom of the table and looking on the verge of a titanic upset, Shingo Akamine leveled the match with twenty minutes left. Continuing to pressure, Yohei Otake scored with ten minutes left go give F.C. Tokyo the win.

In other J-League action:
Tokyo Verdy 1
Gamba Osaka 3

Omiya Ardija 0
Vissel Kobe 2

Kyoto Sanga F.C. 0
JEF United Chiba 1

Jubilo Iwata 1
Albirex Niigata 0