Cerezo vs VERDY 2-2

Good result for the Mighty Greens in Nagai Stadium, Osaka.

Goals scored by Masashi Oguro, his 10th of the season !
MF Kosei Shibasaki scores a great goal too, his third of the year.

Anyway, after 19 games Tokyo Verdy is 8th in the standings.
(7W-5D-7L)- 20/22.

Up Verdy UP !!!

Next game is next sunday, an away trip to Toyama to face Kataller.

Predictions !

Here are my predictions for the J2 season 2009:

1 Cerezo Osaka 2 Consadole Sapporo 3 TOKYO VERDY
4 Vegalta Sendai 5Shonan Bellmare 6Ventforet Kofu
7 Avispa Fukuoka 8 Yokohama FC 9 Sagan Tosu
10 Mito Hollyhock 11 FC Gifu 12 Ehime FC
13 Roasso Kumamoto 14 Thespa Kusatsu 15 Tochigi SC
16 Fagiano Okayama 17 Tokushima Vortis 18 Kataller Toyama

2 Days remaining until the first kick off ...

2009 Schedule

The season kick off on march 7th, with an away game at Tokushima Vortis.
Next, 2 games at Ajinomoto, vs Cerezo Osaka and vs newcomer from JFL Kataller Toyama.

51 games until december 5th.

GO VERDY GO !

2009 Squad !

Here are the numbers:

1 Yoichi Doi
2 Kensuke Fukuda
4 Masaki Iida
5 Takahiro Kawamura *
6 Tomo Sugawara
7 Hiroki Kawano
8 Kosei Shibasaki
9 Masashi Oguro
10 Leandro Lessa Azevedo
11 Leonardo Augusto Vieira Moreira *
13 Taira Inoue
14 Seitaro Tomisawa
15 Kunihiko Takizawa *
16 Kazunori Iio
17 Yukio Tsuchiya
18 Genki Nagasato *
19 Yuzo Funakoshi
20 Kazuya Iwakura *
21 Yoshinari Takagi
22 Toshihiro Hattori
23 Masato Fujita *
24 Masahiro Nasukawa *
25 Kazuki Hiramoto
26 Takahiro Shibasaki
27 Ryohei Hayashi *
28 Kento Tsurumaki *
29 Takuya Wada *
30 Yu Tomidokoro*
31 Jumpei Shinmura
34 Tomoyuki Suzuki

Relegation... again...

Bad end of season for the Mighty Green Buzzards with an heartbreaking loss 0-2 against Kawasaki Frontale.
Damn !
Another relegation, after just one season in J1.

Hope 2009 will be better ! Do it like in 2007 !

34th Day, December 6th !

Last match of the season on Saturday, as we host Kawasaki Frontale at Ajinomoto Stadium !

After a disapointing result in the Clasico (at Yokohama, 2-0) we are still in the playoff spot, 16th place.

Here are the standings, after 33 games:
14 Albirex Niigata 39 pts -15
15 Jubilo Iwata 37 pts -7
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16 Tokyo Verdy 37 pts -10
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17 Jef Utd Chiba 35 pts -19
18 Consadole Sapporo 18 pts -33 (Already relegated to J2)

Saturday's games:
Verdy vs Frontale ; JEF vs FC Tokyo Gashead ; Jubilo vs Ardija ; Albirex vs Gamba.

At least one point against Kawasaki to avoid relegation. A win can save us.
GO VERDY, GO GREEN BUZZZZZZZARDS !!!

Week 30, 31, 32 & 33.

Kyoto Sanga 0 0 TOKYO VERDY
TOKYO VERDY 0 2 Vissel Kobe
TOKYO VERDY 1 1 Consadole Sapporo (Masashi OGURO)
Yokohama F Marinos 2 0 TOKYO VERDY