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| April 18th 2009, 1PM Kickoff at Tokyo Olympic Stadium (Sendagaya, Tokyo) | ||
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J1 Competition Record: FCT # wins, # draws, Chiba # wins |
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Background
In a move set to coincide with Tokyo’s presentation to site evaluators for the 2016 Olympics, tonight’s match between FC Tokyo and JEF United Chiba will be played at the old Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. Both teams are hoping for an Olympian effort from their players as the squads have so far failed to meet expectations. FC Tokyo is off to a shaky start and coming off of a well-fought loss to Kashima, while Chiba has completely failed to play up to expectations and is still winless after 5 rounds. FC Tokyo will be looking for revenge as Chiba’s come-from-behind victory in front of a sold-out home crowd at Fukuari at the end of last season saved the team from relegation. Given how Chiba is playing at the moment, perhaps they would have been better off taking a J2 vacation after all.
The Matchup
Rookie Yonemoto looks like he could be making his first pro start, as he was used as part of the main force in practices this week. Jofuku will continue to tweak the lineup in an effort to finally get all of the pieces of the puzzle to fall into place. Wish I had more than that, but I’m quite burned out this week. On the plus side we’re against a team that’s winless in its first 5 games so deep analysis isn’t really necessary.
Predictions
A win, most likely. It’d be very good if we went to town on Chiba and started to make up some of that goal differential. We’ll see!
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