Match Report: J1 Week 6 FC Tokyo vs. JEF United Chiba

J.League Division 1 Week #
	First Half 1 – 0 Second Half 0 – 2 Final 1 – 2
April 18th 2009, 7PM Kickoff at Ajinomoto Stadium (Chofu, Tokyo) Attendance 27,486
GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga DF 3 Hideki Sahara DF 6 Yasuyuki Konno DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo MF 22 Maotake Hanyu MF 28 Takuji Yonemoto MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama FW 9 Cabore FW 32 Yusuke Kondo	Starting Members	GK 1 Masahiro Okamoto DF 2 Masataka Sakamoto DF 14 Shohei Ikeda DF 4 Eddy Bosnar DF 31 Ryota Aoki MF 10 Kohei Kudo MF 22 Koki Yonekura MF 3 Daisuke Saito MF 5 Alex FW 9 Masaki Fukai FW 18 Seiichiro Maki
64′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Naohiro Ishikawa) 69′ 7 Satoru Asari (for Takuji Yonemoto) 78′ Shingo Akamine (for Cabore)	Substitutes	Half 13 Takumi Wada (for Shohei Ikeda) 63′ 16 Tatsuya Yazawa (for Koki Yonekura) 69′ 6 Tomi Shimomura (for Daisuke Saito)
18′ Naohiro Ishikawa	Goals	86′ Seiichiro Maki 89′ Masaki Fukai
20′ Yuto Nagatomo	Cautions	35′ Kohei Kudo 44′ Shohei Ikeda 75′ Takumi Wada
	Ejections

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Fuck it.  You want to know what happened at the game, go watch a tape of last year’s Verdy match at Kokuritsu and imagine different-colored uniforms you’ll see pretty much the exact same thing.  FCT scores first and then fails to capitalize on its many chances thereafter.  In the second half the team’s speed and agility seem to fade to about the level of molasses, and the opposing team gets a goal to tie it up and then a clincher in the waning minutes of the game to win it.  Shameful.  Absolutely shameful.  I’m not even going to discuss JEF’s overaggressive play or the poor refereeing.  Shouldn’t have mattered.

Hell, now that I think of it, you don’t even have to imagine different-colored uniforms, both Verdy and JEF have white away kits.

The booing started last night.  At this rate it might continue for a while.