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... well, not quite. They had control of possession for much of the game, but were never able to dominate and only emerged narrow 1-0 winners. Cerezo held their own, and often looked more purposeful in their build-ups, with their crisp passing moves getting the ball forward fare more effectively than our rather ponderous efforts.
Grampus got off to a bad start when Magnum pulled lame within five minutes of the start. Pixie quickly had Ogawa warming up and the former Rookie of the Year was soon on the field in place of the injury-prone Brazilian. Fortunately, despite Josh Kennedy still not being fully recovered from his back injury, Keiji Tamada was back in the starting lineup. ALthough the Japan international looked a bit rusty, and continues to look more useful as an attacking midfielder than a striker, he frequently unsettled the Cerezo defence.
Ultimately this game came down to the quality of the 'keepers. Kim had a good game and made one outstanding save early in the first half. However, Narazaki was in imperious form stopping all of Cerezo's efforts that found the target, including a couple of World Class saves again.
| Cerezo | 0 | 1 | Grampus | |||
| Starters | Starters | |||||
| P. | No. | Name | Name | No. | P. | |
| GK | 21 | Kim Jin Hyeon | Seigo Narazaki | 1 | GK | |
| DF | 2 | Kenji Haneda  | Hayuma Tanaka | 32 | DF | |
| DF | 3 | Teruyuki Moniwa | Takahiro Masukawa | 5 | DF | |
| DF | 22 | Taikai Uemoto | Tulio | 4 | DF | |
| MF | 20 | Daisuke Takahashi | Shohei Abe | 6 | DF | |
| MF | 6 | Amaral | Naoshi Nakamura | 20 | MF | |
| MF | 14 | Akihiro Ienaga | Alex Santos (OUT 68') | 10 | MF | |
| MF | 16 | Hiroyuki Omata (OUT 90') | Igor Burzanovic (OUT 79') | 9 | MF | |
| MF | 7 | Takashi Inui (OUT 90') | Mu Kanazaki | 25 | FW | |
| MF | 7 | Shinji Kagawa | Keiji Tamada | 17 | FW | |
| FW | 11 | Ryuji Bando (OUT 71') | Magnum (OUT 8') | 8 | FW | |
| Subs Bench | Subs Bench | |||||
| GK | 1 | Kenya Matsui | Koji Nishimura | 21 | GK | |
| DF | 4 | Kota Fujimoto | Akira Takeuchi | 2 | DF | |
| MF | 17 | Noriyuki Sakemoto | Mitsuru Chiyotanda | 3 | DF | |
| MF | 28 | Yusuke Maruhashi | Yoshizumi Ogawa | 10 | MF | |
| MF | 19 | Naoya Ishigami | Keiji Yoshimura | 14 | MF | |
| MF | 25 | Masato Kurogi | Danilson | 20 | MF | |
| FW | 15 | Rui Komatsu | Yuki Maki | 17 | FW | |
| Scorers | Tamada 90+1' (Amaral OG?) | |
Cerezo Osaka | Timeline | Grampus |
| Substitution | Magnum > Ogawa 8' (Hamstring injury again) | |
| Card | Burzanovic 13' | |
| Card | Santos 51' |
| Substitution | Santos > Yoshimura 68' | |
| Bando > Komatsu 71' | Substitution | |
| Moniwa 74' | Card | |
| Substitution | Burzanovic > Maki 79' | |
| Haneda 85' | Card | |
| Omata > Maruhashi 90' | Substitution | |
| Inui > Ishigami 90' | Substitution | |
| GOAL | Tamada 90+1' |
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