Well, I am just back from Nishikyogoku, and today Sanga really kicked ass. Okee, in the end we tried hard to let Marinos score one goal, and we did miss our dozen of regular passes, but we attacked for most of the game, and if we had a player instead of a smurf (Hayashi), the game would have finished half-way through the first half, since today's Marinos would have never scored two goals, not even against FC Ryukyu.
What changed besides Kakuda for Someya? Simply, Diego finally played as attacking midfielder, Yuto was back on its (high) standard, Lee and Mizumoto did the job, and Paulinho is gradually finding himself after one season out. We still miss Yanagi badly, but when they play with 'cojones' Sanga are a decent team, surely not a 16th place team.
There were some 1,500 brave Marinos supporters who braved the rain, and were still chanting (although not exactly enthusiastically), when 0-2 down, with Sanga collecting one corner-kick after the next.
The two-goal cushion made it so that for once we did not have to see any pathetic time-wasting, and our subbed players even left the field jogging... unseen!!
Finally, one note for the ref: Paulinho zooming toward the goal, trounced from behind... how that was not a red, I would never know! Not sure he was against the last man, but it was a brutal and very useful foul... But since Marinos were already down 0-1, of course we needed to keep the game alive, I imagine... I am curious to see if the event will even be mentioned by the media.
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