Trial results/2017~

Match Report

95th Emperor's Cup All Japan Football Championship

final

2016年1月1日

(Friday/Holiday)

14:16 KICK OFF

Past Results

Venue
Ajinomoto Stadium

Attendance
43,809

Weather
Sunny

Referee
Nobutsugu Murakami

update

Urawa Reds

1 - 2

1st Half

2nd Half

Gamba Osaka

36': Shinzo Koroki

GOAL

32': Patric

53': Patric

Substitution

57' Tsukasa Umesaki → Takahiro Sekine	12' Koki Yonekura → Yosuke Ideguchi
57' Yuki Muto → Zlatan	76' Takashi Usami → Tatsuya Uchida
69' Tomoya UGAJIN → Toshiyuki Takagi	88' Patric → Shun Nagasawa

Yellow Card

30' Tadanari Lee	35' Takashi Usami
	71' Shu Kurata
	90+2' Daiki Niwa

Red Card

Player

1: Shusaku Nishikawa

1: Masaaki Higashiguchi

46: Ryota Moriwaki

4: Daisuke Nasu

5: Tomoaki Makino

14: Koki Yonekura

5: Daiki Niwa

6: Kim Jungya

4: Hiroki Fujiharu

7: Tsukasa Umesaki

16: Takuya Aoki

22: Yuki Abe

3: Tomoya UGAJIN

30: Shinzo Koroki

19: Yuki Muto

15: Yasuyuki Konno

7: Yasuhito Endo

13: Hiroyuki Abe

39: Takashi Usami

11: Shu Kurata

20: Tadanari Lee

29: Patric

15: Koki Otani

2: Kenichi Kaga

27: Rikiya Motegi

33: Wataru Hashimoto

24: Takahiro Sekine

21: Zlatan

31: Toshiyuki Takagi

SUB

18: Yosuke Fujigaya

35: Ryo Hatsuse

10: Takahiro Futagawa

21: Yosuke Ideguchi

27: Tatsuya Uchida

9: rinse

20: Shun Nagasawa

Stats

Attempts

Corners

Direct FK

Indirect FK

Offsides

Penalties

Trial-match comments

Mihailo Petrovic (Head Coach): "First of all, before I make any comments after the Trial, I would like to greet you all. Happy New Year, and I would like to wish you all good health and success in the coming year.

Losing today's game is not a good result for the Reds. However, Trial itself was very tense and well-played for the spectators. We didn't start off the first half very well. I think there were many periods in the midfield where we allowed the opponent to have the ball freely.

I think Gamba had more chances to score in the first half, and they were behind, but even though we didn't play well in the first half, we went into the break with the score at 1-1.

In the second half, we put more pressure on the opponent and took control of the game. We created more chances, but we conceded the first goal from a corner kick. We created many chances after that, but we couldn't tie the score.

I am very disappointed that we lost. However, I believe that the players fought with all their might until the end to win this Trial and get the cup. Today marks the end of the season. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the title. I am disappointed, but as a coach, I also saw some positive things. And although we lost, I believe we fought well throughout the season. However, as for not winning, I think we were lacking something. I believe that accumulating those little things one by one will lead to success next season.

Opponent team comment

Kenta Hasegawa (Head Coach): "I thought I would be filled with more honest joy, but surprisingly, I feel more relieved. Looking back on this season, we started off against the Reds in the Fuji Xerox Super Cup, and ended it with a match against the Reds in the Emperor's Cup final. We were able to win the championship by beating the wonderful Urawa Reds in the opening and final games, so I would like to thank the players and, from the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank the Gamba supporters who have continued to support Gamba Osaka all year.

As for today's game, I was thinking about what to do if something happens to the right fullback. Since we don't have a fullback, I thought that Konno would be able to play smoothly on the left, but I had him play on the right once last year and didn't have a very good image of him. Just as I was thinking about what to do there, Yonekura got injured, so Konno was suddenly brought in and Ideguchi played defensive midfielder. In this Trial, Konno showed a great performance until the end, and Ideguchi Yosuke, who was suddenly brought Trial, didn't Trial well, but he did his job well as time went on. In that sense, I think Yosuke's solid growth this season was a big point of this Trial.

In the Emperor's Cup, we have always played against Kawasaki, Tosu, and Hiroshima, who use the 3-6-1 system, which is the specialty of Reds manager Petrovic. To a certain extent, we had predicted which areas of the opponents we needed to be careful of. Today, without Kashiwagi, they attacked with great power on the sides, and Zlatan came on at the end, so we had many dangerous moments, but Uchida, who had returned from injury, played well.

In this Emperor's Cup, everyone, including the starters and bench members, worked hard to help the team win, which I believe ultimately led to us winning the championship. I would have liked to have Myojin on the bench today, but I couldn't. I think Myojin fully understood that in his own way. Futagawa, Myojin, and Rins, who were on the bench today and couldn't play, also trained hard. We have a really great team, and I'd like to thank everyone for allowing us to play for a year and end the season by winning the title at the very end."