After the match against Niigata Swans, the quarterfinals of the Japan League Cup also began. According to the draw, FC Tokyo's opponent is Vegaltai Sendai, who will be home and away.

Bobovic had already said that he would give up on the domestic cup competition altogether, so in the Carabao Cup in midweek, Tokyo FC sent a full bench to play, and a guy like Shota Hirayama, who had not been able to play for a long time, finally got the chance to start.

FC Tokyo simply lost 1-2 at home to Vegala Sendai, but the League Cup knockout round is a two-legged match, and they will have to wait until the second leg of the away game is played to be eliminated.

After the match with Niigata Swans in the 19th round, Tokyo FC will not be able to play against opponents in the next two rounds, facing Urawa Red Diamonds away in the 20th round and Kashiwa Sun God away in the 21st round.

"Hiroshima Three Arrows Chase the Good Opportunity Arrives", this is an analysis made by Hiroshima Media.

"This season's dark horse Tokyo FC is about to usher in a difficult schedule, consecutive away challenges Urawa Red Diamonds and Kashiwa Suns, both of which are teams with the strength to beat Tokyo FC, and at the same time in the away game, especially Urawa Red Diamonds' devil's home, which is the famous devil's home stadium in the whole of Asia, the gas team is likely to suffer two consecutive defeats under the lack of response, this is a great opportunity for Hiroshima Three Arrows to chase points ~~~"

Japanese fans come across as moderates, but there is one exception, and that's Urawa Red Diamond fans, who are known for their fanaticism.

Urawa Red Diamonds fans are some of the most united and engaged fans in all of Japan, and have always been known for their loyalty, with a large group of fans following the team wherever they go. Especially when participating in the AFC Champions League, two or three thousand Ura and fans often charter flights to support the team away. This season's AFC Champions League in Tokyo has been excellent, with only a few hundred fans accompanying the team to the away stadium each time.

Urawa fans are also known for their professionalism, whether it is the neat cheering sound or the Tifo large puzzle on the spot, these are comparable to the big European clubs, so it has also built the title of the first devil home stadium in Asia at the Saitama World Cup Stadium, and the home stadium of Urawa has long been the home stadium with the highest attendance rate in the J League.

UK's Fox Sports has voted the world's most loyal fan base, with Urawa Red Diamonds joining Liverpool in England, Barcelona in Spain, River Plate in Argentina and Galatasaray in Turkey.

Of course, it's only natural that fanatical fans do something fanatical, and Urawa Red Diamonds FC is fined for fan actions almost every year.

On August 4, in the 20th round of the J League, Ringer came to the home of Asia's No. 1 devil for the first time, the Saitama World Cup Stadium.

As soon as you hear the name, Urawa will know that it was originally built for the '02 World Cup, where many group games were held, and the semi-final Brazil's 1-0 win over Turkey was also played here.

Saitama is located in Kanto, which is very close to Tokyo, so Urawa Red Diamonds also has a lot of fans in Tokyo.

Urawa Red Diamonds' opponents in the Kanto region have always been Kashiwa Suns and Kawasaki Frontale, and Urawa has a slight advantage in all aspects, vaguely related to the posture of the East Boss, Tokyo FC, a mid-to-lower team, will never be looked at by them. Who knows that this season, Tokyo FC has sprung up, currently ranking first in the league, and it is also the only remaining J-League team in the AFC Champions League, which seems to have the intention of challenging Urawa Kanto's position as the boss.

With FC Tokyo at the top of the standings and Urawa Red Diamonds ranked fourth, this game is also a standard match, and it is logical that it has become the most watched game of the round, with more than 60,000 people attending the Saitama World Cup Stadium with an attendance of more than 55,000, setting a record for the largest number of spectators in the J-League this season. Among them, only more than 2,000 Tokyo FC fans came with the team, and most of the rest were Urawa fans wearing red jerseys, and the scene completely turned into a sea of red.

"Kanto will always belong only to red!"

"Rubies always shine!"

Looking at the large Tifo banners at the scene, the neatly sung "We Are Forever Ruby" singing, Ringer was also surprised. It has been more than half a year since he became a professional player, and it is the first time he has seen so many spectators in a game, and it is the first time he has encountered such a shocking away game, and even the last time he went to Tianhe, he was not so powerful.

Evergrande's Tianhe home stadium capacity is only more than 40,000, and the cheering voices of Evergrande fans are a bit unprofessional, which seems to be a bit messy, while the singing of Urawa is uniform, just like a person's voice is amplified and thickened countless times, which can shock people's hearts at once.

"This kind of scene only happened when Urawa participated in the AFC Champions League in the past, and it seems that the rapid rise of the gas team has put a lot of pressure on Urawa." Hiroichi Yamamoto was saying.

Honestly, in such an atmosphere, any away team will be silenced, and FC Tokyo is no exception.

As soon as the game began, Urawa Red Diamonds took advantage of the home stadium and launched an onslaught under the addition of the terrifying atmosphere at home.

"Genki Haraguchi ~ Header! The top is too high~~~~"

"Yuki Abe ~ Long shot! Deflected from the column ~~~"

Urawa's offensive was quite ferocious, Tokyo FC was completely suppressed, and Bobovic jumped to his feet on the sidelines, constantly directing the defensive line arrangement.

But they couldn't hold on, and Urawa Red Diamonds quickly scored goals.

"Richards~ Burst in!"

"Richards ~ Knock on the door!"

"Refraction ~ ball in! Richards' shot was refracted by Morishige's thigh, and Hitoshi Shiota was helpless. ”

In just the 11th minute of the opening game, Urawa's Brazilian foreign midfielder Richards seized the opportunity to burst into the penalty area and hit the goal, which was finally reflacted into the net.

“Fuxk~Fuxk！！！ Those Urawa guys are like doping! Bobovich was furious.

After the goal, Urawa did not relent, but continued to strengthen the offensive, as if he wanted to play the game directly.

"Urawa corners, the Gas have conceded the third most goals in the J-League corner defence this season, so they have to be careful this time."

"Yuki Abe~ grabbed the point!"

"Danger, now there's chaos in the restricted area! The ball is in! Who is it? Uga God ~ Uga God Yuya! It was he who stabbed the ball into the net in the confusion, and Urawa led 2-0. ”

With less than half an hour to go, Urawa Red Diamonds led 2-0, and the result of this tough battle was somewhat unexpected.

Tokyo FC's backline is a group of small people who react quickly, and the tallest height in the starting lineup is 1.86 meters Hasegawa, but Hasegawa organizes the offense well, and the defense is notoriously bad, if he defends better, he may enter the Japanese national team.

After more than half a season, the J-League teams have gradually learned about this weakness of Tokyo FC, and the frontal attack of Tokyo FC is very solid in defense, but the corner kick set piece defense Tokyo FC is always easy to get out of the basket.

In the corner kick defense of the J-League this season, only Gamba Osaka, which is a defensive pitfall, and Consadole Sapporo, who has only scored 4 points from 18 league games, are worse than FC Tokyo.

"Defend ~ Defend mentally! We still have a chance, don't give up! Bobovic clapped his hands and shouted from the sidelines.

After falling behind by two goals in half an hour away from the Devils, Bobovic knew that this was not the time to scold, the team's morale was now low, and the opponent kept attacking to end the game in the first half, and the more he scolded, the more he was afraid of conceding goals.

Seeing that his teammates were depressed one by one, Ringer had to find a way.

Urawa Red Diamonds attacked again, the opposing striker Genki Haraguchi tried to break through with the ball, Ringer rushed up without hesitation to be a shovel, and the side directly overturned the opponent, and the stadium sounded earth-shattering boos, and the referee also came over to give Ringer a yellow card.

In Japan, this kind of earth-shattering boos can probably only be heard at Urawa's home stadium.

Ringer ignored the referee who raised the yellow card behind him, and shouted to his teammates in the middle of the defense: "The game is not over yet, we still have a chance!" In the last game, we also fell behind by two goals in the half, and in the end we didn't chase it back, so we all cheered up and held on to this time first. It is impossible for them to maintain a whole battle with such a fierce attack regardless of physical strength, and when their physical strength is almost exhausted, it will be our chance. ”

Perhaps it was Ringer's words that took the effect, or maybe it was slowly adapting to Urawa's indiscriminate attack, and Tokyo FC held on to the final time of the first half.

At half-time, Bobovic expressed the same sentiment as Ringer: "They attacked so recklessly, trying to kill the game in the first half, you did a good job, you didn't let them get their way, it's not an irretrievable score to be two goals down, we still have a chance in the second half, and when they don't have the physical strength, that's when we counterattack." ”

At the beginning of the second half, Urawa continued to attack for ten minutes, but Tokyo FC fully adapted to the opponent's rhythm and did not make mistakes defensively.

At the beginning of the 60th minute, Urawa began to recycle the formation, and they also knew that if they continued to attack, they would not have the stamina.

"Hasegawa, we need to pick up the tempo, drag them to run, we can't give them a chance to rest." Ringer suggested that Hasegawa pick up the team's offensive tempo.

Tokyo FC suddenly picked up the tempo and the opportunity soon presented itself.

In the 66th minute, Nakamura Hokuto, who played as a guest left wingback, received a pass from Hasegawa and suddenly stepped forward, and Urawa was a little caught off guard. Ringer immediately went over to answer, took the ball and walked into the penalty area, but was stopped by Urawa defender Tomoaki Shinno, but Ringer turned around to protect the ball and returned the ball to Nakamura.

"Nakamura, pass!"

When Ringer returned the ball, he also shouted to remind his teammates that he had this kind of routine in practice, but whether he could really play it in the game depended on the players' on-the-spot reaction and sense of cooperation. Hearing Ringer's reminder, Nakamura received the ball and immediately got up with his feet, picking up a pass to the back of the goal on the right side of the penalty area before the opposing defender intercepted.

"Nice fit, back point, Hasegawa is following up!" Koichi Yamamoto also cheered for this cooperation.

Hasegawa at the back post followed up with a cushion shot, and the ball entered the Urawa gate without incident.

"The ball is in! The Gases finally pulled a goal back, and the game was still in suspense, but the Gases were not intimidated by Urawa's momentum in the first half, and they played their own combination, which was a rare Japanese-style passing match for the Gas. ”

Urawa Red Diamonds made a substitution immediately after Tokyo FC's goal, with Brazilian midfielder Pope coming on to replace striker Genki Haraguchi and leaving Yuki Abe up to the front to move forward. Urawa players generally have a huge physical exertion, and Urawa is a substitution that is both a replacement for a player with physical strength and an attempt to slow down the pace.