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Football Japan Minutecast No. 2 – Early strikes pile pressure on Kashima

2009/03/16(月)

16 March 2009

Kashima Antlers’ bid to achieve an unprecedented third consecutive J League title took an early blow yesterday when they went down to a shock 2-1 defeat away to unfancied Albirex Niigata. After goals in the opening 12 minutes from Kisho Yano and Pedro Junior, a shell-shocked Kashima struggled to come to terms with their hosts throughout the first half, and Daiki Iwamasa’s strike in second half stoppage time came too late to serve as anything but mere consolation.

 

Having comfortably beaten title rivals Gamba Osaka in the Fuji Xerox Super Cup and Urawa Reds on the opening day in the league, the Antlers had looked the team to beat this season, but a crushing 4-1 defeat to Suwon Bluewings in the AFC Champions League last Wednesday seems to have destroyed their air of invincibility. Albirex, meanwhile, go second in the embryonic J1 table after two wins from their first two games.

 

Gamba are the only other team with a 100% record so far after they dispatched Jubilo Iwata 4-1 in a tale of three penalties at Banpaku. Yasuhito Endo kept his nerve on two occasions, either side of a Gilsinho spot kick that had briefly given Jubilo some hope, and further strikes from Park Dong-Hyuk and Leandro helped Gamba record a three-goal winning margin for the third match in a row. Iwata remain rooted at the bottom, having now conceded ten goals in just two games.

 

Elsewhere, Montedio Yamagata kept up their fine start to their debut season in J1 with a 0-0 draw at home to title contenders Nagoya Grampus, but there was less fortune for fellow promoted side Sanfrecce Hiroshima, who lost 3-2 at home to Omiya Ardija. Oita Trinita and Urawa Reds got off the mark with wins over Kyoto Sanga and FC Tokyo, but defeat in Kobe for Kawasaki Frontale leaves last season’s runners-up with just one point so far.

 

Shimizu S-Pulse played out a 0-0 draw with Yokohama F Marinos, while honours were shared as Kashiwa Reysol and JEF United drew 1-1 in the season’s first Chiba derby.

 

J1 results (matchday 2)

Oita Trinita 1-0 Kyoto Sanga

Urawa Reds 3-1 FC Tokyo

Vissel Kobe 2-1 Kawasaki Frontale

Kashiwa Reysol 1-1 JEF United Chiba

Shimizu S-Pulse 0-0 Yokohama F Marinos

Montedio Yamagata 0-0 Nagoya Grampus

Gamba Osaka 4-1 Jubilo Iwata

Albirex Niigata 2-1 Kashima Antlers

Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2-3 Omiya Ardija

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