clubgowi post of 2018 .................nomination #2
Nov 03, 2018
I have a series of nominations of "posts of the year", the purpose is more to illustrate just what is available within the main body of the daily newsletter. Here is #2............
Gamba Osaka won 3-1 at Urawa Reds this morning and along with leaders Kawasaki Frontale, are playing the best football in Japan, if they could have back the ten points lost from winning positions early in the tenure of the "new" head coach they would actually be 3rd, three points clear of FC Tokyo in 4th. Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (pictured) and Gamba's stock continues to rise !
The week he took charge I wrote............
Gamba are having a nightmare season in JL1 and will need to up their game to get anything out of this and close in on the four points they are currently away from survival. However, they are in the last eight of the League Cup, having knocked Jubilo Iwata out over two legs in the playoff round, winning here in Shizuoka 3-2 and have a new head coach and one who the players like and have full respect for and, who knows how the club operate, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto stepping up from the U23 team to replace Levir Culpi. The new boss was born in Osaka Prefecture, spent 14 years as a player at Gamba, time in Europe which most Japanese footballers dream of and 71 times for his country and has been working with the youngsters for a couple of seasons. He took charge a week ago and got an immediate response from his players who battled back from a goal down to share the points with Kashima Antlers who had just refound their own form, that was the first time in ten occasions that Gamba had fallen behind and not lost. Antlers had scored 22 goals (!) in their previous five starts, including three in a six goals thriller away to Jubilo and Gamba restricted then to just two attempts from inside the penalty box, so, quite a bit for one of the nation's biggest clubs to take from that and I suspect the mood is intense, but also a little lighter on the Gamba training ground this week. They have averaged 1.7 goals per game on their last ten trips to Jubilo who have failed to score in their last three. Miyamoto knows what makes the club tick, their philosophy and I expect him to be able to get enough out of this still talented squad who are comfortable on the ball to survive and they can start with a point or better today.
Gamba were 4-3-10 through half the season when he took charge, they have gone 8-3-3 subsequently, but it is FAR more than bare results and, as I said yesterday, "we have our Gamba back" !
Good luck !
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