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Sunday, November 21, 2010

What Goes Around and Celebrity Dipshits Verdy 2 - 3 Avispa

You have to wonder what`s going in football sometimes. Verdy were to dominate the game but were never in front. After the comeback of the season against Toyama, Verdy got a taste of their own medicine in more traditional Green style. Avispa were nervous as hell and if they play like that in J1 next season they will finish dead last (again). The game kicked off with the Boys passing it around crisply enough though not really threatening the Avispa goal. Avispa themselves were without top scorer and ex Verdy wide man Genki Nagasato and struggled to find any kind of rythmn for the first 20 minutes.
The opening goal came on 20 minutes with Shohei Takahashi giving away the penalty following a trip which probably WAS just inside the box despite the vehement protests. Veteran Kudo made no mistake from the spot, twice slamming past Doi after the first penalty had to be re-taken for encroaching.
Verdy continued to press without succes and probably at the this point the neutral fan would have changed channel to watch some celebrity no marks eat stuff, do the monkey clap/laugh thing, say eeeehhhhh!!! nodding their heads in endless agreement. I personally would love it if one day someone on Japanese TV would say "Actually mate that`s complete bollocks, this food tastes like arse!! I`m off to Mcdonalds"
And what a treat they would have missed!!! The second half was another ding dong battle starting off with Avispa extending their lead with Jogo tearing Tomisawa and Tuschiya to pieces through the middle sprinting from the half way line to slot past Doi. The Verdy backline has been superb at times this season but recently has looked very shaky leaking seven in three games.
However Verdy were to come back into it with a superb strike and contender for Goal of The Month from Kazunori Iio. He was on the edge of the D surrounded by markers, he turned and fired straight into the top corner. Boom!
After this Verdy were to really lay siege to the Avispa goal and it wasn`t long before Goal Machine got us back to 2-2 with a first time header running at full pelt on a looping cross from Shibasaki. Two spectacular goals and a superb comeback. At this point it looked like there would only be one winner with Avispa more than a little shellshocked. Tsuchiya found himself clean through about 10 yards out and in traditional centre half style blasted hopelessly over the bar. Kawano fired wide and deep into injury time these misses came back to haunt Verdy. Free kick 25 yards out.......and I`m sure you can guess the rest.
Roundabouts..Traffic entering the roundabout yields to traffic already on the roundabout."Eeeeeeh!!! Aaah so desu ka? Sugoi ne!!! Ne!! Ne! Shiranakatta!! KA-BOOM!! TV fades to black to the sound of semi automatic gunfire...
Anyway a great game, superb entertainment but unfortunately no points. Avispa will have to up their game considerably if they are to avoid coming straight back down next season and seemingly so will JEF if they make it after struggling to overcome the comically bad Giravanz.

5 comments:

  1. Great game to watch but the standard of passing and defending was really really awful, all part of the course for J-league 2 I guess.

    Nothing to play for this season I guess so might as well blood a few more of the youth players ready for next season.

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  2. Give them a run out if the points are in the bag. Aside from Minami(one game one goal) and Kobayashi no one else in the squad has been even on the bench. I can`t see Kawakatsu changing the starting line up though I`d go with Minami on the bench above Inoue and maybe Killoran on the bench above Sugawara. Inoue is shit and hoepfully won`t be there next season and Sugawara is also a bit part player these days. Be very interesting to see who gets the boot over the winter and who gets re-signed or signed. Then we will see how serious Xebio are about taking the club forward.

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  3. Nice report.

    I'd agree with your assessment of us coming straight back down, but big things look like they might be afoot with our main striker being told to leave and the possibility it means we might have someone a little less cack lined up.

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  4. Nice one!! Let`s hope it`s Lionel Messi!! Wouldn`t mind seeing him play week in week out eh!!

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  5. I'd settle for Kensuke Nagai.

    There were already banners going up with his name on at the ground, and maybe the appeal of his hometown club and the chance to be our main striker will have some sway.

    What's going on with Oguro? He scored against us for Yokohama on loan from you. I think you'd have gone up easily if you'd had him and that guy who scored against us playing.

    I linked to your site from my page on Tokyo Verdy as soon as I found the site (from Go Go Omiya), you've got some great reports.
    I'll stick a bunch of links along the side too.

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