Grampus Stymie Charging Frontale

In what could prove to be another vital result, Nagoya earn a share of the points at Todoroki Stadium, against the streaking Kawasaki Frontale.

This game saw Grampus take the lead early in the first half, when Magnum lashed home ball from Keiji Tamada. Frontale then equalised early in the second half and for spell thereafter looked like going on to win the game. However, Grampus found their second wind and were able to neutralise most of Frontale's efforts towards the end, and even had their own chances to win the game. The result leaves Nagoya tied with Urawa on 33 points in third place, only two points off leaders Kashima.

Kawasaki Frontale
Eiji Kawashima
Hiroki Ito, Yusuke Igawa, Shuhei Terada (Tomonobu Yokoyama 14)
Satoru Yamagishi (Kurotsu 87), Vitor Junior, Kengo Nakamura, Kosuke Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Murakami
Juninho, Chong Tese (Kazuki Ganaha 67)
Scorers: Vitor Junior 52

Grampus
Seigo Narazaki
Akira Takeuchi, Milos Bajalica, Takahiro Masukawa, Shohei Abe
Yoshizumi Ogawa. Naoshi Nakamura, Keiji Yoshimura (Atsushi Yoneyama 67), Magnum (Kei Yamaguchi 84)
Keiji Tamada (Keita Sugimoto 70), Frode Johnsen
Scorers: Magnun 12