Grampus Also Rans Still Struggling

Nagoya's second stringers struggle to a home draw against basement dwellers Cerezo in yesterday's Nabisco Cup qualifying game. This means the team is still winless, and looking increasingly aimless, since the departure of our four internationals. This lack of competitiveness by the reserves could be partly due to the league's decision to scrap the Satellite League, but also suggests that Stojkovic does not have his mentor's ability to deveop young players.

A first half goal by Maki was cancelled out by Komatsu, and the home team was indebted to a string of fine saves from Takagi to save it from dropping into the cellar themselves.

Grampus		1		1	Cerezo
Starters				Starters
P.	No.	Name		Name	No.	P.
GK	50	Yoshinari Takagi		Kim Jin Hyeon	21	GK
DF	32	Hayuma Tanaka		Daisuke Takahashi	20	DF
DF	3	Mitsuru Chiyotanda		Teruyuki Moniwa	3	DF
DF	5	Takahiro Masukawa		Taikai Uemoto	22	DF
DF	6	Shohei Abe		Naoya Ishigami	19	DF
MF	14	Keiji Yoshimura		Kota Fujimoto	4	MF
MF	9	Igor Burzanovic		Amaral	6	MF
MF	20	Danilson		Masato Kurogi	25	MF
MF	10	Yoshizumi Ogawa		Takashi Inui	7	MF
FW	17	Yuki Maki		Ryuji Bando	11	FW
FW	19	Keita Sugimoto		Akihiro Ienga	14	FW
Subs Bench				Subs Bench
GK	21	Koji Nishimura		Kenya Matsui	1	GK
DF	23	Genta Matsuo		Kenji Haneda	2	DF
MF	22	Koji Hashimoto		iroyuki Omata	16	DF
MF	27	Sho Hanai		Noriyuki Sakemoto	17	MF
MF	28	Taishi Taguchi		Hotaru Yamaguchi	26	MF
FW	25	Mu Kanazaki		Yusuke Maruhashi	28	MF
FW	29	Hikaru Kuba		Rui Komatsu	15	FW