Second Half
0 – 0

Final
1- 2
April 12th 2009, 1PM Kickoff at Ajinomoto Stadium (Chofu, Tokyo) Attendance 32,913 GK 20 Shuichi Gonda
DF 25 Yuhei Tokunaga
DF 2 Teruyuki Moniwa
DF 3 Hideki Sahara
DF 5 Yuto Nagatomo
MF 6 Yasuyuki Konno
MF 22 Naotake Hanyu
MF 18 Naohiro Ishikawa
MF 10 Yohei Kajiyama
FW 9 Cabore
FW 24 Shingo Akamine Starting Members
GK 21 Hitoshi Sogahata
DF 2 Atsuto Uchida
DF 3 Daiki Iwamasa
DF 19 Masahiko Inoha
DF 35 Park Joo-Ho
MF 15 Takeshi Aoki
MF 40 Mitsuo Ogasawara
MF 10 Masashi Motoyama
MF 8 Takuya Nozawa
FW 18 Marquinhos
FW 34 Yuya Osako 58′ 40 Tatsuya Suzuki (for Cabore)
61′ 19 Yohei Otake (for Naohiro Ishikawa)
74 13 Sota Hirayama (for Shingo Akamane) Substitutes 53′ 7 Toru Araiba (for Masashi Motoyama)
59′ 13 Shinzo Koroki (for Yuya Osako)
82′ 14 Chikashi Masuda (for Takuya Nozawa) 40′ Shingo Akamine Goals 1′ Marquinhos
15′ Yuya Osako 58′ Yuhei Tokunaga Cautions 44′ Marquinhos
89′ Mitsuo Ogasawara Ejections

Report

Sorry, readers – with my work starting this week I’ve been too busy to write a full report, but suffice to say that this was a hard-fought match and if a ball or two had gone a foot lower and if Kashima’s GK Hitoshi Sogahata wasn’t such a tool, we might have gotten a draw (which I think we deserved) or even a win.

For completeness sake I’m going to backdate this entry.  Sorry for the delay!