Match Report: Nabisco Cup Group B Round 5: FC Tokyo vs. Montedio Yamagata

J.League Division 1 Week #
	First Half 0 – 1Second Half 3 – 0 Final 3 – 1
June 3th 2009, 7:30PM Kickoff at Kokuritsu Stadium (Shinjuku, Tokyo) Attendance 14,259
GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 14 Hokuto Nakamura DF 4 Bruno Quadros DF 15 Daishi Hiramatsu DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga MF 28 Takuji Yonemoto MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa MF 27 Sotan Tanabe FW 9 Cabore FW 13 Sota Hirayama	Starting Members	GK 21 Taishi Endo DF 14 Takuya Miyamoto DF 22 Takuya Sonoda DF 23 Hidenori Ishii DF 13 Tatsuya Ishikawa MF 16 Kim Byung-Suk MF 19 Masaru Akiba MF 5 Takumi Watanabe MF 29 Tomoyasu Hirose FW 15 Yu Hasegawa FW 6 Kohei Miyazaki
29′ 33 Kenta Mukuhara (for Hokuto Nakamura) 71′ 19 Yohei Otake (for Sotan Tanabe) 76′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Cabore)	Substitutes	43′ 17 Kentaro Sato (for Masaru Akiba) Half 20 Ryo Kobayashi (for Kim Byung-Suk) 76′ 7 Katsuyuki Miyazawa (for Takuya Miyamoto)
57′ Yohei Kajiyama 63′ Cabore 71′ Cabore	Goals	3′ Tomoyasu Hirose
17′ Sota Hirayama 43′ Kenta Mukuhara	Cautions	32′ Takuya Sonoda 44′ Takuya Miyamoto 51′ Kentaro Sato
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For once, Tokyo fans were treated to a come-from-behind victory against Montedio Yamagata on a Wednesday night game at Kokuritsu.  Tokyo came out of the gates… poorly, to say the least, allowing a goal in the 3rd minute when the defense plain collapsed.  Tokyo spent the next 30 minutes or so plodding along before finally gaining some semblance of structure.

Whatever coach Jofuku told the team at halftime seemed to kick in, however, as the team struck back with a vengeance in the second half.  Our favorite player to bitch about, Yohei Kajiyama, came up big in the 57th minue with a beauty of a strike to tie the game.  6 minutes later Cabore displayed incredible follow-through effort in scoring the tiebreaker, and 8 minutes after that sealed the deal with his second goal of the game.