Chapter 18 Japan Super Cup
March 3 will be the day of the 2012 Japan Super Cup, which will be played between last season's league champions Kashiwa Suns and cup champions Tokyo FC at the Tokyo National Stadium in downtown Tokyo, which is also the home of the Japanese national team.
The schedule at the start of the new season is not very friendly to Tokyo FC, because March 3 is the first Japan Super Cup in the history of Tokyo FC, and then the team has to rush to Australia to play the first AFC Champions League game in the club's history against Australian Super League side Brisbane Roar on March 6, and then have to rush back to Japan for the first game of the new J-League season on March 10.
Three games in a week, and every game is important, and there are already Japanese media predicting that if Tokyo FC suffers three consecutive defeats in the new season, it may trigger a crash, and it has been a thousand miles since then.
The group stage of the AFC Champions League is different from the Champions League, the AFC Champions League was completed at the end of the previous year, Tokyo FC was divided into Group F, and there are also South Korean K-League team Ulsan Hyundai, Chinese Super League team Beijing Guoan, and Australian Super League team Brisbane Roar. Most of the media, including Japan, believe that Tokyo FC is the weakest one in this group, and they just need to do their job of sending the boys to the first AFC Champions League trip.
On February 28, Tokyo FC returned to Chofu after a four-week intensive training camp in Kagoshima to begin preparations for the Super Cup.
During the training camp, Ringer used four outfield looks, all four of which were very good, and the rest of the time he was good with good speed, and he has now gained some trust from head coach Bobovic, who is currently an important substitute in the team's forward line.
At present, Tokyo FC does not have a fixed formation, 442 and 4231 are playing, when the 442 formation, the forward starters will be Lucas and Watanabe Chima, Ringer as the first substitute, 4231 formation, Lucas and Watanabe take turns as a single arrow, Ringer is the second substitute.
Lying alone on the bed in his apartment, Ringer was watching the results of this training camp.
User: Unknown
Age: 21
Body Values(57)
Strength: 10
Speed: 14
Stamina: 13
Flexible: 10
Bounce: 10
Technical Values(59)
Dribbling: 11
Passes: 10
Field of view: 16
Archery: 12
Defense: 10
During the training camp, Ringer's technical stats increased by 4 points, passing by 2 points, dribbling and defending by 1 point each, while his potential stats also increased to 281.2%.
Ringer thought in his heart, now that he accelerates, he will be unstable with the ball, and adding a little speed will probably add two points of flexibility and a little strength to ensure the ball, and Ringer feels that the speed of 14 should be enough in the J League, so these two potential values are simply added to the physical fitness in one breath.
The new values for Ringer are:
User: Unknown
Age: 21
Body Values (59)
Strength: 10
Speed: 14
Stamina: 15
Flexible: 10
Bounce: 10
Ball Quotient Value(59)
Dribbling: 11
Passes: 10
Field of view: 16
Archery: 12
Defense: 10
Ringer's current physical and technical stats are both 59 combined, just one point short of reaching 60.
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On March 3, at the Tokyo National Stadium in Kasumigaoka-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Ringer stands at the entrance of the stadium.
"Lin Jun, this way." Two girls, one tall and one short, appeared, the short one was naturally Noriko Kimura, a classmate of Ringerto, and the tall one was her roommate.
Ringer thought that he would come to play professional football, and he was afraid that he would not have any more intersections with the other party in the future, but he didn't expect that two days ago, Noriko suddenly sent him a message, asking him if he could get two Super Cup tickets. As a member of Tokyo FC, Ringer naturally could get two tickets, so he agreed to the other party.
Ringer walked over and took out the two tickets on his body: "These two tickets are not bad, not the kind of position in the back row." ”
"Thank you, Lin Jun." Noriko held the two tickets in her arms.
"You're welcome, I'm glad you guys can support me."
"We're going to buy some food to bring in, do you want Lin Jun to come along?"
"No need, I'm going to go back quickly, the coach will be scolded when he finds out."
But Noriko left, Ringer hadn't left yet, and after waiting for a while, he finally saw the person waiting.
"Fatty, why did it take you so long to come? Our apartment is less than 2 km away, so you can go a little slower. ”
"You don't know my size, can I get up fast?"
"You came here? Didn't drive? ”
"Driving? It takes more time to find a place to park. ”
farts with the fat man, and said to one person on the side: "Brother Yan, thank you for your support." "It was Yan Ming on the side, who came to watch the game with the fat man today.
"Okay, don't be poor, will you change to play football or become a geisha? Thank you too. ”
ushered in the fat man and Yan Ming, and Ringer also hurried back, just in time for everyone to change their jerseys and warm up.
The Tokyo National Stadium is the largest stadium in Tokyo and one of the largest stadiums in Japan, with a standard capacity of 60,000 people and a maximum capacity of 80,000 people.
In addition to being the home of the Japanese national team every year, the Tokyo National Stadium is also the venue for the annual Japan Super Cup.
With Tokyo teams participating in the Japan Super Cup this year, and Super Cup tickets selling better than in previous years, many Tokyoites are willing to buy a ticket to support the capital team.
At 13:35 on March 3, Tokyo time, the 2012 Japan Super Cup officially began.
Bobovic lined up a 4231 formation today, goalkeeper Hitoshi Shiota, four defenders Yuhei Tokunaga, Mato Morishige, Kenta Starling, Kosuke Ota, Yohei Oyama and Hideto Takahashi as midfielders, Hasegawa Aria Jasulu as the front midfielder, Tatsuya Tanizawa and Naohiro Ishikawa on the left and right wingers respectively, and Lucas as a single striker.
Ringer and Chima Watanabe both sat on the bench, Bobovic's tactics have been trained is to defend steadily, and the offense mainly relies on counterattacks, but today is his first official game in office, perhaps unwilling to let the scene be too ugly, so let Lucas play as a single striker, so that there are more changes in the attack, and you can directly cross from the side, relying on Lucas's strong body to grab points.
As the J-League champion last season, Kashiwa Suns is stronger than Tokyo FC in terms of strength, at least in the starting lineup, so Ringer sat on the sidelines and watched the game, and the field was basically one-sided.
In the 26th minute of the first half, Kashiwa Suns' Brazilian midfielder Jorge Wagner shot a long shot in front of the penalty area, and Tokyo FC goalkeeper Hitoshi Shiota made a mistake in his position and couldn't save, and Kashiwa Suns led 1:0.
In the 42nd minute, the biggest contributor to the victory of the Bai Sun God last season, the Brazilian Leandro Domínguez burst into the penalty area with the ball and was pulled down, the referee awarded a penalty, Dominguez personally took the main penalty and hit, and the Bai Sun God led 2:0.
"The gas team did not show the strength of the Emperor's Cup champions, and if they relied on this strength to participate in the AFC Champions League, I am afraid it will be miserable."
'Lucas is old and Shiota shouldn't be in the starting goalkeeper position, so Bobovic may have made some mistakes in his starting line-up.
Nippon TV's sports channel, former international Toshishi Namito and famous commentator Koichi Yamamoto analyzed the score of the first half.
At halftime, Ringer listened to Bobovic's roar from below: "You guys played like in the first half, counterattack, counterattack!" What about our counterattack? Lucas, you make me feel like I'm seeing an eighty-year-old man playing football, and you're completely unable to run? Yantian, you still have 45 minutes to prove yourself......"
Bobovich has been coaching in Japan for many years, but he still stumbles in Japanese, but he can barely express his meaning.