At the best of times, it's not easy being a Reds' fan. You either love 'em or you hate 'em. The Reds are rarely anyone's second team. So when the Reds' isn't performing to deliver results, the J-League world is a very lonely place. A lot of people cheer when the Reds are down; sad but true.
So now with golden week behind us, we come out of it with 3 defeats and a combined scoreline of 1-6. Something just isn't right there; we can't score goals, but at the same time we can't stop goals either (defend that is). It took over 270mins of golden week action before Genki finally scored a goal for the Reds (in injury time against Kashiwa, the third game of golden week) and to be honest, that is just not good enough!
At the moment I don't see what Petrovic is seeing but I can't see what he can do with what he has now. Who from the current squad can he bring in that can make a difference. The only movements I can think of is put Mazola on one wing, and Genki on the other and maybe replace Nobu Yamada with Keita when he's healthy, but besides that there isn't really anything. I couldn't see what bringing Hara into the starting XI in place of the injured Tatsuya would have done and it shows. He wasn't effective and seeing Mazola in his place for a full match would have been alot better. I must admit thought seeing things in hindsight makes things alot easier.
Anyways this is how the Reds' lined up against Kashiwa;
GK: Yamagishi
DF: Takahashi; Spiranovic; Nagata; Ugajin
MF: No Yamada; Kashiwagi; Richardes
FW: Hara; Haraguchi; Edmilson
Subs:
23min Ugajin > Noda
65min Spiranovic > Sergio
77min Hara > Mazola
Up next is Cerezo Osaka on Sunday. I don't know how to predict this one; they're an under performing team so far this season and it will be interesting to see which of the two"kicks-off" their season 2011 on Sunday. No surprise that I'm picking Red over Pink.
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