86_86638 and Nagoya Whales ended the first round on September 2, followed by the second round on September 6. Returned to Tokyo, the home field, relying on the landlord's advantage and their own away goal advantage, but also a lot more relaxed, this round of the game, they are also defense-oriented, no longer thinking about the victory to pursue.

Their choice was quite correct, and in the second round, the Nagoya Whales did make them break out in a cold sweat. In the game, Joshua Kennedy, the high school forward of the Whales, played much better than the previous game.

This Australian international, who has played less than ten games in the J League, is not very well coordinated with his teammates, and he is a little incompatible with Nagoya Whales' tactics, and he can't integrate into the offensive system, so he even forces the team to defend and counterattack. But even so, once this player breaks out, it is still very scary.

In this round of the competition. He was incredibly dominant. Tokyo's defenders are not weak, Yasuyuki Konno is the team's Japan's substitute central defender, and Bruno is a Brazilian defender, with strong confrontation ability, but the two of them are powerless to stop this powerful guy, Bruno's 32-year-old age, and his height of 1.8 meters, in front of an opponent of 1.94 meters, it seems extremely physical, Kennedy forced through Tokyo's defense again and again, although there was a lack of support, and finally got a goal for Nagoya Whales.

Fortunately, Tokyo's attack at home has also improved a little, relying on a counterattack goal from Kabore, they also did not score. Tokyo were lucky to beat Nagoya Whales 1-0 away, 1-1 at home, and 2-1 to advance to the final.

It's just that after the game, Tokyo couldn't help but feel a palpitation: Kennedy is indeed a strong player, that is, because he just transferred in the summer, and he didn't cooperate well with Nagoya, and it didn't match the tactical system, so Nagoya had to choose defensive counterattack tactics to confront Tokyo. If he was given time to integrate into Nagoya, it would be an unimaginable nightmare for Tokyo.

Thankfully, Tokyo didn't let that happen.

Reaching the cup final is definitely a great thing to celebrate for Tokyo, but for others, it is not necessarily true. Even if Tokyo was the winner, it was Kennedy who focused on the media after the game. Joshua Kennedy's superb performance against Tokyo has made people realize that the striker may be a new terror threat to the J-League. In addition to Lucas and Kabore, it seems that another powerful striker has been parachuted into the J-League, and this time, his team is Nagoya Whales.

Now that Whales have Masatoshi Narazaki and Maya Yoshida, plus a Kennedy, they can find a better foreign midfielder to get their team into the championship ranks. This recruitment can be regarded as a major event that will change the pattern of the league, and the arrival of Kennedy means that next season, the competition in the league will be more intense.

It's just a pity that he still lost to Tokyo. Nagoya has nothing to do with the championship at least this year, otherwise, a strong striker will come out of nowhere and win a championship directly for Nagoya, and such an airborne landing can be regarded as dramatic.

All of a sudden, the media was discussing him, and another high school striker was also mentioned: Gao Shunyao, who also scored an away goal in this semi-final, was also compared to Kennedy.

There are a lot of high school forwards in the J League, Kennedy is one, Hafner, and Yohei Toyoda are also typical high school forwards. For a league like the J League, where physical elements are generally insufficient, having a physically fit player agitating in front is more conducive to the stability of one's passing and control tactics, and everyone understands this truth. And which of these centers is the best to use, people are also very concerned.

In this high-school striker confrontation, Kennedy's play was stronger than Gao Shunyao's, but Gao Shunyao won the game. This also begs the question: which high school striker is the strongest high school forward in Japan?

"Joshua Kennedy has only played less than 10 games, but his sheer quality speaks volumes about how good he is. What he lacked was the run-in with his teammates, and he was not able to combine with his teammates, which was the biggest reason for his loss to Tokyo. ”

In the analysis of the media, it is generally believed that Kennedy's strength is superior. And such an evaluation, even Gao Shunyao has to be convinced: Australia's international players do have uniqueness, compared with Asian players, Australians' physical confrontation ability is much better. It is not a problem for Gao Shunyao to bully the Japanese international by relying on his physical advantage, but compared to Kennedy, he still knows his own shortcomings.

However, compared with other players, Gao Shunyao has no fear. For example, when the media now compares him to Yohei Toyoda in Kyoto, Gao Shunyao is not so fond of him.

If you only talk about pure dribbling skills, this Japanese Drogba is actually a few points better than Gao Shunyao - after all, he is a player who grew up in the Japanese league system, and his technical level is still guaranteed. But when it comes to comprehensive strength, compared with Gao Shunyao, he doesn't have so many advantages. Because the physical gap between him and Gao Shunyao is a little big.

This gap is not just that he is 4 centimeters shorter and 8 kilograms lighter than Gao Shunyao. In any of his aspects, he is inferior to Gao Shunyao. Bounce, speed, agility, coordination, balance, flexibility, and even physical and reflex speeds, he was a little worse.

These gaps, taken out in any one aspect, are insignificant. But if you look at it all together, it's a big gap. Gao Shunyao's skills should be regarded as the roughest kind of person in the J League now, but relying on his physical advantages and increasing sense of running, Gao Shunyao is getting better and better, while Toyota Yangping's comprehensive strength is much worse.

After all, technology and consciousness can be improved, and once the physical condition is finalized, it is difficult to improve. Relying on his physical condition, Gao Shunyao is enough to ensure that even if he is not as good as those European and American foreign aides now, he is not afraid of any player in Asia.

Moreover, this is not his biggest advantage, the most important thing is that Gao Shunyao is willing to sacrifice for the team.

High school strikers have a variety of meanings on the court, and some high school strikers are used to destroy the city, and they store them on the court in order to rely on their own deterrence to break through the opponent's door. And some high school forwards play more of a fulcrum role. What they need to do is cooperate with their teammates and help them make a big comeback. Sometimes, a better player is not necessarily able to lead a better attack, and the right sacrifice must be saved.

The most obvious example is England: Owen is a good striker, and Shearer is also a good striker, but the partnership between Owen and Shearer has never had any sparks. But at Liverpool, Owen is flanked by Husky, and they work much better together, not because Husky is better than Shearer, but because Husky knows how to sacrifice.

Serve your team-mates more, help your team-mates score goals, help your team-mates play better, and only when you do that, you are a good player.

Gao Shunyao did just that, so he was able to help Tokyo reach the League Cup final. And Tokyo's results have also increased his value, and the teams in the J League have now recognized his talent and given him more recognition.

That's how players and teams make each other. A player like Gao Shunyao can only highlight its significance when placed in the collective.

People were courting Kennedy, and that was someone else's business. The finals are just around the corner, and Tokyo doesn't bother to bother with that. In fact, even in the next league, they lost to Gamba Osaka, and they didn't bother to pay attention. Being able to reach the League Cup final means that they will have the possibility of winning the first title since the founding of the Tokyo football team, and losing to Gamba is not a big deal in the face of such a thing.

Moreover, even if this one is lost, the pressure on Tokyo is not very great: after losing the game against Gamba, they basically have no strong opponents in the league. Except for Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Kawasaki Frontale and Nagoya Whale Hachi, the other opponents, they are not very afraid. So far, Tokyo have only lost seven league games, and if they play well in the rest of the games, it will be difficult to win the championship, but if they just want to finish in the top four, it will not be a big problem.

Of course, what you need to be careful at this time is to capsize in the gutter and lose to those weak brigades. For example, in the first half of the season, they unexpectedly lost to Chiba Ichihara, which was a typical careless loss of Jingzhou. However, after all, it is no longer the time when Hirayama is still playing the main team in the first half of the season, and such a defeat is not so easy to happen.

In the next match, facing Chiba Ichihara, Tokyo easily won the match. The opponent is already at the bottom, and the strength of the top three contenders in the league like Tokyo is very different, and Tokyo still remembers the depression of losing to them in the first half of the season, and this game is also open for revenge.

The unlucky Chiba Ichihara suffered a bloodbath in this game because of the three points he scored in Tokyo in the first half of the season. Kabore scored two goals, Gao Shunyao scored a goal, and Naohiro Ishikawa scored a goal from the penalty spot, a total of four goals, and Tokyo proved their strength with a 4-0 game, and also washed away the shame of losing to their opponents.

Another victory, Tokyo is well on its way to finishing in the top three of the league. It's just that no one thought that an accident would prevent them from winning in a row.

Tokyo did not win against Sanfrecce Hiroshima - in the first half of the season, against this team, Tokyo replaced Gao Shunyao, which made them reverse the game and win Hiroshima. But this time, things changed.

This time, Tokyo scored first, but then it was Tokyo's defender Yohei Kajiyama who retired injured in the game. His injury disrupted Tokyo's deployment, and also made Tokyo only get a draw in this game.

The draw wasn't the worst news Tokyo had ever received: an even worse piece of news came their way after the game: Yohei Kajiyama was injured and had a muscle strain that required him to be sidelined for four weeks – meaning he would be largely unavailable for the entire October tournament