GAME RESULTGame Result

Sec. 2 2019/3/16 (Sat)
Audience 1,049 people 
Weather cloudy, weak temperature 15.9 degrees, humidity 22% 
Referee: Takao UEDA Assistant Referees: Hisao MANABE / Daisuke HATAKEYAMA Fourth Official: Takafumi MIKURIYA

J3 Sec. 2

AJI FIELD NISHI

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Second Half0-0

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Iwate Grulla Morioka

FC Tokyo U-23 Iwate Grulla Morioka
Scorer 43' Shuhei Fukai
57' Nattawut → Kobayashi Riku
Player Substitution 63' Natsuki MAKIKURA → Yu YONEHARA
66' Shota KIKUCHI → Motoaki HIRAKAWA
90'+1 Shota YOMESAKA → Kazuki EGASHIRA
17 Shoot 9
7 CK 6
16 FK 19
27' Rei HIRAKAWA
60' Arthur SILVA
Warning 82' Takahide Kinoshita
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FC Tokyo U-23Starting Lineup
GK 13 Go HATANO
DF 45 Arthur SILVA
DF 5 Daiki NIWA
DF 29 Makoto OKAZAKI
DF 22 Takumi NAKAMURA
MF 40 Rei HIRAKAWA
MF 44 Manato SHINADA
MF 21 Insoo YU
MF 31 Nattawut
FW 28 Takuya UCHIDA
FW 24 Taichi HARA
FC Tokyo U-23Substitute
GK 41 Taishi Brandon NOZAWA
DF 43 Kimura Seiji
MF 50 Kim Seong-min
MF 38 Kobayashi Riku
Iwate Grulla Morioka Starting Lineup
GK 1 Yasuhira Doi
DF 2 Takaaki Kinoshita
DF 3 Tomoya Fukuda
DF 22 Shuhei Fukai
MF 17 Hirota Ryuji
MF 14 Shota YOMESAKA
MF 19 Yoshida Naoya
MF 7 Mugikura Naki
FW 13 Kazuma Uchino
FW 9 Shota Kikuchi
FW 11 Kenji Yabuuchi
Iwate Grulla Morioka Substitute
GK 31 Sunao KASAHARA
DF 4 Yuya Maehara
MF 5 Keita Ishii
MF 20 Kazuki Egashira
FW 16 Motoaki Hirakawa

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[Player/Coach Comments]

Player comments can be found here

"Tokyo U-23, Coach Tetsu NAGASAWA's Press Conference Summary"

"First of all, I am truly grateful that over 1,000 fans and supporters gathered at Nishigaoka. Despite being busy, you all came to our U-23 home opener and I am very sorry that we were unable to earn 3 points."
In terms of the match, since young players were participating, we had to play more aggressively.
I think the reason for today's defeat was that we couldn't express our aggressiveness while enduring the opponent's tough and persistent play. Throughout the game, we tried various challenges such as changing our position and player placement, but we still need to improve as we were not able to make threatening plays against the opponent.
Since it is a league game, each player needs to use the experience from today's match to their advantage in the next game, and the most important thing is to win and gain confidence. We want to prepare well for the next home game against Fujieda.

(What is the standing position, is it the positioning during the game or simply the meaning of arrangement?)
"I had too many people in the build-up against opponents who were pressing from the front line."
The goal is to score, so it is important to know where to play while moving the ball. I think it was a waste to have too many people behind today, and we cannot score unless we aim for the opponent's penalty area.
The challenge remains to be the position that focuses on attacking with numbers in front.

(Nakamura's position today was on the left side. I think his main position is on the right, but today's evaluation is)
"I don't want to give a personal evaluation. However, in modern football, it is difficult to play in just one position. In the top team, left-handed Ogawa also plays on the right side, and coach Hasegawa demands playing in multiple positions."
"I value the fact that I was able to try and play in today's match, as practicing and experiencing it in a real game are completely different things."