Match Report: J1 Round 13: FC Tokyo vs. Kawasaki Frontale

J-League Round 13
	First Half 1 – 0Second Half 1 – 3 Final 0 – 1
May 24th 2009, 2PM Kickoff at Ajinomoto Stadium (Chofu, Tokyo) Attendance 27,851
GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga DF 4 Bruno Quadros DF 6 Yasuyuki Konno DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama MF 28 Takuji Yonemoto MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa MF 22 Naotake Hanyu FW 9 Cabore FW 13 Sota Hirayama	Starting Members	GK 1 Eiji Kawashima DF 19 Yusuke Mori DF 4 Yusuke Igawa DF 17 Kosuke Kikuchi DF 2 Hiroki Ito MF 6 Yusuke Tasaka MF 14 Kengo Nakamura MF 29 Hiroyuki Taniguchi FW 34 Renatinho FW 9 Chong Tese FW 10 Juninho
Half 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Naotake Hanyu) 59′ 2 Teruyuki Moniwa (for Naohiro Ishikawa) 75′ 14 Hokuto Nakamura (for Sota Hirayama)	Substitutes	54′ 11 Vitor Junior (for Yusuke Tasaka) 79′ 18 Tomonobu Yokoyama (for Renatinho) 89′ 7 Masaru Kurotsu (for Chong Tese)
28′ Yasuyuki Konno 54′ Naohiro Ishikawa	Goals	58′ Juninho 65′ Hiroyuki Taniguchi 68′ Renatinho
	Cautions	15′ Yusuke Tasaka 65′ Chong Tese 89′ Masaru Kurotsu
57′ Bruno Quadros	Ejections

Report

This was a great match spoiled by the team’s quick and utter collapse following the ejection of Bruno Quadros 13 minutes into the second half.  Though Tokyo managed to control the flow of the game for most of the first half and into the second, going down to 10 men proved to be the catalyst as Kawasaki took over and FCT quickly became demoralized.  It was painful to watch, quite frankly.  Definitely a case where one decision by the referee can affect the entire game, and nobody likes to see that.  Had Bruno not gotten a stupid red card (I didn’t even bother to check the video; Matsu over at TRSN had no problem with it so it was probably deserved.

On the plus side, the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra live before the game was pretty rad, so there’s that.