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Match Report: J1 Round 19: Kawasaki Frontale vs. FC Tokyo

Lantis — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:49:38 +0000

J.League Division 1 Week 19
	First Half 0 – 1 Second Half 2 – 0 Final 2 – 1
August 1st 2009, 7PM Kickoff at Todoroki Soccer Stadium (Nakahara, Kawasaki) Attendance ##,###
GK 1 Eiji Kawashima DF 19 Yusuke Mori DF 13 Shuhei Terada DF 2 Hiroki Ito DF 26 Kazuhiro Murakami MF 18 Tomonobu Yokoyama MF 29 Hiroyuki Taniguchi MF 14 Kengo Nakamura FW 15 Takuro Yajima FW 10 Juninho FW 8 Satoru Yamagishi	Starting Members	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
53′ 34 Renatinho (for Satoru Yamagishi) 65′ 4 Yusuke Igawa (for Kazuhiro Murakami) 71′ 20 Yuji Yabu (for Tomonobu Yokoyama)	Substitutes	70′ 27 Sotan Tanabe (for Takuji Yonemoto) 77′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Cabore) 82′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Naohiro Ishikawa)
55′ Juninho 89′ Hiroyuki Taniguchi	Goals	37′ Naohiro Ishikawa
44′ Shuhei Terada 87′ Renatinho	Cautions	3′ Bruno Quadros 73′ Yohei Kajiyama
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Sorry this came late but I was at Rock In Japan Festival all weekend and spent the rest of the week recovering. From the looks of it, doesn’t seem like a match I would have enjoyed attending much anyway. Jofuku returned to the lineup that had given the team so much success in the last couple months, but a failure to keep the lead resulted in a heartbreaking injury time loss. Tokyo now sits at 6th place in the standings (edged out by Shimizu on points) and Kashima’s loss means that the top half of the table draws ever closer.

Match Report: Nabisco Cup Quarterfinals Second Leg: Nagoya Grampus vs. FC Tokyo

Lantis — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:47:14 +0000

Nabisco Cup Quarterfinals Second Leg: Nagoya Grampus vs. FC Tokyo
	First Half 1 – 0 Second Half 1 – 1 Final 2 – 1
July 29th 2009, 8PM Kickoff at Mizuho Athletic Stadium (Mizuho, Nagoya) Attendance 6,463
GK 30 Koichi Hirono DF 32 Hayuma Tanaka DF 3 Milos Bajalica DF 4 Maya Yoshida DF 6 Shohei Abe MF 10 Yoshizumi Ogawa MF 14 Keiji Yoshimura MF 13 Kei Yamaguchi MF 19 Keita Sugimoto FW 17 Yuki Maki FW 16 Joshua Kennedy	Starting Members	GK 1 Hitoshi Shiota DF 33 Kenta Mukuhara DF 4 Bruno Quadros DF 6 Yasuyuki Konno DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama MF 22 Naotake Hanyu MF 40 Tatsuya Suzuki MF 27 Sotan Tanabe FW 9 Cabore FW 24 Shingo Akamine
55′ 18 Tomohiro Tsuda (for Keiji Yoshimura) 62′ 28 Taishi Taguchi (for Keita Sugimoto) 83′ 26 Masaya Sato (for Kei Yamaguchi)	Substitutes	55′ 25 Yuhei Tokunaga (for Cabore) 58′ 18 Naohiro Ishikawa (for Naotake Hanyu) 77′ 13 Sota Hirayama (for Sotan Tanabe)
33′ Yuki Maki 65′ Maya Yoshida	Goals	85′ Sota Hirayma
15′ Keiji Yoshimura	Cautions
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We came with an adjusted lineup from the previous 8 games, they scored 2 goals, but Hirayama put one in the net late to seal Tokyo’s victory. Sadly the game wasn’t broadcast so I had no way of seeing it, but the 1-2 loss was enough to get Tokyo to the semifinals 6-3 on aggregate. Our next opponent will be Shimizu S-Pulse (again), with the away leg on 9/2 and the home leg on 9/6. Winner plays the winner of Yokohama vs. Kawasaki in the final.

Match Report: J1 Round 19: FC Tokyo vs. Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Lantis — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:44:29 +0000

J.League Division 1 Round 19
	First Half 0 – 0Second Half 0 – 0 Final 0 – 0
July 25th 2009, 6PM Kickoff at Ajinomoto Stadium (Chofu, Tokyo) Attendance 27,846
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 34 Hirotsugu Nakabayashi DF 24 Ryota Moriwaki DF 2 Ilian Stoyanov DF 19 Kohei Morita MF 16 Ri Han-Jae MF 35 Koji Nakajima MF 6 Toshihiro Aoyama MF 17 Kota Hattori MF 25 Issei Takayanagi MF 10 Yosuke Kashiwagi FW 11 Hisato Sato
78′ 27 Sotan Tanabe (for Naotake Hanyu) 84′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Sota Hirayama) 88′ 40 Tetsuya Suzuki (for Naohiro Ishikawa)	Substitutes	Half 15 Yojiro Takahagi (for Issei Takayanagi) 73′ 33 Takashi Rakuyama (for Ri Han-Jae) 88′ 22 Tsubasa Yokotake (for Yosuke Kasiwagi)
	Goals
34′ Yohei Kajiyama 50′ Cabore 80′ Sota Hirayama	Cautions
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Match Report: Nabisco Cup Quarterfinals First Leg: FC Tokyo vs. Nagoya Grampus

Lantis — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:15:04 +0000

J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Quarterfinal Round Game 1
	First Half 4 – 0 Second Half 1 – 1 Final 5 – 1
July 15th 2009, 7:30PM Kickoff at Ajinomoto Stadium (Chofu, Tokyo) Attendance 12,226
GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga DF 4 Bruno Quadros DF 6 Yasuyuki Konno DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo MF 28 Takuji Yonemoto MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa MF 22 Naotake Hanyu FW 9 Cabore FW 13 Sota Hirayama	Starting Members	GK 21 Koji Nishimura DF 32 Hayuma Tanaka DF 2 Akira Takeuchi DF 5 Takahiro Masukawa DF 26 Masaya Sato MF 10 Yoshizumi Ogawa MF 7 Naoshi Nakamura MF 14 Keiji Yoshimura MF 8 Magnum FW 19 Keita Sugimoto FW 9 Davi
Half 24 Shingo Akamine (for Cabore) 68′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Takuji Yonemoto) 71′ 27 Sotan Tanabe (for Naohiro Ishikawa)	Substitutes	Half 11 Keiji Tamada (for Davi) 61′ 13 Kei Yamaguchi (for Keiji Yoshimura) 70′ 18 Tomohiro Tsuda (for Keita Sugimoto)
3′ Sota Hirayama 10′ Takuji Yonemoto 11′ Naohiro Ishikawa 26′ Yuto Nagatomo 75′ Own Goal	Goals	53′ Yoshizumi Ogawa
	Cautions	26′ Akira Takeuchi 88′ Hayuma Tanaka
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Those of you who are familiar with the legendary Blizzard game Starcraft probably remember the one time you played against a Korean player. You shoulders immediately tensed, the hairs on your arm stuck straight up, a fine line of sweat formed across your brow; all of this before the game even started. While you attempted to build up your noble Terran army and began to construct factories and even a few bunkers, your opponent already had an army under his command. Then, out of nowhere, a wave of zerglings overruns you as if you were the last Tickle-Me-Elmo on Black Friday, and they leave behind them a twisted mass of wreckage akin to New Orleans, post-Katrina. You sat at your computer, desolate, perhaps a small wet spot spreading on the front of your pants, wondering why you’d even bothered showing up in the first place.

That’s more or less what it must have felt like to be a Nagoya fan in Ajinomoto Stadium last night.

Nagoya, stung by a 3-0 defeat on Sunday, attempted to barrel their way to the Tokyo goal and get a couple goals that would, at the very least, help them in the event of a tiebreaker. Tokyo had other intentions, however, and the first goal was so quick that some fans were probably still pouring into the stadium. 10 minutes later the score was 3-0 courtesy of an incredibly well-placed shot by Yonemoto and yet another score by Ishikawa, bringing his streak to 6 games in a row which sets a new team record. Nagatomo contributed a score of his own at 26′, and the team basically spent the rest of the first half in incredibly intricate passing sequences, much like bullies passing a stuffed animal back and forth to keep it away from a little kid. Nagoya’s players were visibly frustrated, as were the fans who hoisted a banner exclaiming “Fight back if you’re man enough! behind their goal. Pixi looked like he wanted to impale himself on the corner kick flag and end it all right then and there.

The second half featured a lot more miscues, errors, and generally sloppy play by Tokyo; not enough to turn the game to Nagoya’s favor but just enough to wipe out the afterglow of an amazing first half. One could argue that playing 2 games in 4 days against the same opponent is quite tiring, especially when Nagoya played some dirty football in an attempt to derail Tokyo’s concentration, but some of these mistakes were facepalm-worthy. Poor clearing choices, missed passes, hesitations on the attack… you name it, they screwed it up. Fortunately this lapse only lasted long enough to give away one goal, and Tokyo went back to kicking ass and taking names for the rest of the match until newly-signed striker Owen Gouru, appearing on a one-day contract, knocked in the 5th goal.

With the win, Tokyo takes a 4-goal difference into Nagoya in two weeks. A 3-goal loss or a better result would be enough to send Tokyo into the semifinals, where it will face either Shimizu or Urawa (who won their first match 2-1 at home).

Naohiro Ishikawa’s Flaming Foot

Lantis — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:07:08 +0000

The man with the hot foot has surged to the top of the goals scored table, and the team has surged up the league table at the same time. So here’s a quick look at Ishikawa’s collection of onion bags.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJNOM4dnXTU

Match Report: J1 Round 14: Kashiwa Reysol vs. FC Tokyo

Lantis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:23:21 +0000

J.League Division 1 Week 14
	First Half 0 -- 2Second Half 0 -- 1 Final 0 -- 3
June 7th 2009, 1PM Kickoff at Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium (Kashiwa, Chiba) Attendance 10,266
GK 33 Takanori Sugeno DF 25 Yusuke Murakami DF 5 Mashiro Koga DF 13 Yuzo Kobayashi DF 7 Hidekazu Otani MF 14 Keisuke Ota MF 28 Ryoichi Kurisawa MF 19 Shu Abe FW 15 Minoru Suganuma FW 20 Tadanari Lee FW 9 Hideaki Kitajima	Starting Members	GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga DF 4 Bruno Quadros DF 6 Yasuyuki Konno DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo MF 28 Takuji Yonemoto MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa MF 22 Naotake Hanyu FW 9 Cabore FW 13 Sota Hirayama
51′ 10 França (for Hideaki Kitajima) 51′ 11 Popo (for Keisuke Ota) 60′ 27 Yuki Otsu (for Tadanari Lee)	Substitutes	68′ 27 Sotan Tanabe (for Naotake Hanyu) 71′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Cabore) 79′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Sota Hirayama)
	Goals	9′ Naohiro Ishikawa 20′ Cabore 46′ Sota Hirayama
	Cautions
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Unfortunately due to photography commitments I wasn’t able to make the trek out to Hitachi this time, but I would have apparently had a much better time than I did the first time I went there bck in March.

Cabore breaks his slump in league games, Ishikawa moves into a tie for 3rd among goal-scorers (tied for 1st among Japanese players), and the battlin’ monk Hirayama gets his first goal of the season. Now let’s see them keep it up.

Here’s the video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rsdKPa5bo

Nabisco Cup Group B Round 6: FC Tokyo vs. Shimizu S-Pulse

Lantis — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:29:43 +0000

Nabisco Cup Group B Round 6
	First Half 1 - 0Second Half 2 - 1 Final 3 - 1
June 13th 2009, 2PM Kickoff at Komazawa Stadium (Setagawa, Tokyo) Attendance 12,538
GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 33 Kenta Mukuhara 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 32 Yusuke Kondo	Starting Members	GK 21 Yohei Nishibe DF 25 Daisuke Ichikawa DF 3 Naoaki Aoyama DF 5 Keisuke Iwashita DF 2 Arata Kodama MF 10 Jungo Fujimoto MF 7 Teruyoshi Ito MF 16 Takuya Honda MF 13 Akihiro Hyodo FW 8 Takuma Edamura FW 11 Kazuki Hara
57′ 40Tatsuya Suzuki (for Yusuke Kondo) 66′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Cabore) 75′ 19 Yohei Otake (for Sotan Tanabe)	Substitutes	Half 20 Shun Nagasawa (for Teruyoshi Ito) 68′ 22 Genki Omae (for Jungo Fujimoto) 68′ 4 Kosuke Ota (for Arata Kodama)
6′ Cabore 61′ Naohiro Ishikawa 73′ Shingo Akamine (PK)	Goals	83′ Genko Omae
34′ Kenta Mukuhara 58′ Yuhei Tokunaga	Cautions	70′ Naoaki Aoyama 71′ Naoaki Aoyama 73′ Keisuke Iwashita
	Ejections	71′ Naoaki Aoyama

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For what may be the first time this season, Tokyo played 90 minutes of exciting, fast-pced, attack-oriented football and managed to absolutely decimate Shimizu S-Pulse in what was essentially a dead-rubber game for the orange legion. Shimizu had locked up a berth in the quarterfinals already; a win would guarantee first place and a matchup with Nagoya Grampus, while a loss or draw could possibly knock the team down to 2nd and result in a tieup with Group A’s first place squad (which turned out to be Urawa. Tokyo, on the other hand, controlled its own destiny and could make it to the second round (and win Group B) with a win.

The match ws a wild back -and-forth affair from the start; topped with an early goal by Cabore that gave Tokyo a rare first-half lead. Though Tokyo (particularly Kajiyama) made many silly passing mistakes, the lead held and the boys in blue and red went into the locker room feeling pretty good about themselves.

The second half featured drama, intrigue, and a rare officiating decision that favored Tokyo. 16 minutes into the second half, Naohiro Ishikwa let off a ripping shot that would prove to be the game winner. 10 minutes later, Akamine was pulled down inside the box by Shimizu defender Naoki Aoyama, who began protesting practically before the referee pointed to the penalty spot. With the Tokyo fans egging him on, Aoyama continued to protest and was eventually showed a red card for his trouble. Akamine’s first attempt was blocked, but the referee gave another Shimizu player a yellow for encroaching on the penalty area and called a redo. Akamine didn’t miss the second time and Tokyo steamed on to a 3-1 victory despite getting a bit lazy on defense with a 3-goal lead and a 1-man advantage (hence the ’1′ in the equation. Gonda proved his skills by stopping a penalty shot late in the second half that would have made it 3-2 and caused heart rates to go up behind the Tokyo goal, and from then on it was merely a question of which songs to sing until the final whistle.

Having captured Group B, Tokyo will now take on Nagoya Grampus in the quarterfinals of the Cup. The home leg will be July 15th at Ajinomoto Stadium (4 days after the teams meet in J1 play at the same stadium), while the away leg will be on July 29th. The winner will play the winner of the Urawa-Shimizu series in the semifinals.

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

Lantis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:56:28 +0000

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.

Match Report: Nabisco Cup Group B Round 4: Kyoto Sanga vs. FC Tokyo

Lantis — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:46:32 +0000

Nabisco Cup Group B Round 4: Kyoto Sanga vs. FC Tokyo
	First Half 0 – 1Second Half 1 – 0 Final 1 – 1
May 30th 2009, 2PM Kickoff at Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium (Ukyo, Kyoto) Attendance 7,508
GK 21 Yuichi Mizutani DF 24 Tatsuya Masushima DF 4 Hiroki Mizumoto DF 5 Kazuki Teshima DF 22 Daigo Watanabe MF 18 Koken Kato MF 16 Jun Ando MF 3 Sidiclei MF 10 Diego FW 20 Paulinho FW 9 Yohei Toyoda	Starting Members	GK 20 Shuichi Gonda DF 33 Kenta Mukuhara DF 3 Hideki Sahara 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
27′ 17 Taisuke Nakamura (for Koken Kato) 64′ 13 Atsushi Yanagisawa (for Kazuki Teshima) 80′ 23 Atsutaka Nakamura (for Paulinho)	Substitutes	64′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Cabore) 65′ 24 Shingo Akamine (for Sotan Tanabe) 71′ 19 Yohei Otake (for Naohiro Ishikawa)
69′ Atsushi Yanagisawa	Goals	12′ Naohiro Ishikawa
60′ Diego	Cautions	38′ Sota Hirayama 52′ Yohei Kajiyama
	Ejections

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Neither of us saw this match, box score should say it all.

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

Lantis — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:40:39 +0000

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

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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.