Urawa Red Diamonds

S-Pulse.

Now this one, Yorawa Red Diamonds.

Oh, Red

Diamonds, of course.

But I was like, the stadiums, they're just, they're alive, you know? And if you go through the replays, you can sort of spin the camera around, you can look at these stadia.

And a lot of those were like, you know, it was sort of like the National Stadium in Yokohama.

They had the Saitama Stadium from Urawa Reds, for example, have all those things.

And I always just felt like, wow, these places look so cool.

He went from Uwara Reds in Japan.

Red Diamonds, yeah.

to St. Trudon in Belgium and he went St. Trudon yeah and he went to Parma

yeah and he chose that's when he could have joined United wasn't it but he said no I need to play football and he chose Parma because of the history behind Buffon and stuff which I love the fact that he chose if you're a goalkeeper you would though wouldn't you choose Parma you would

The Pinks were coming off a one-all draw at Nagoya in midweek, notable for new forward Pablo Sabag's first J1 goal.

While there were positives again for Jeff, but they ultimately came up short in a 3-2 loss at Urawa.

And they finished this pair of games back at the foot of the table after they jeffed it up From two goals in front, deep into second half stoppage time.

Makoto Himeno had given them a 23rd minute lead when his shot deflected off Dion Kools and looped into the net past a wrong-footed Kosuke Nakamura.

But yes, they've nicked a couple at the death in both games.

Moving on to another of the games from Sunday.

It was Urawa hosting Nagasaki with the both clubs coming off Wednesday wins.

Reds just about seeing off Chiba Urawa.

I don't know if all the players can speak the same, but this is, yeah, for me, personally, they were very kind, very pushing.

However, I would say I always, always loved to play games, FC Seoul against Urawa, because for me, their fans are incredible, or were, I don't know now, these days, but I played the biggest games, the best games.

These matches were always so fun to play.

Big stadium, full stadium, on stop, chanting, supporting.

3-2 on the road.

The big winners were Urawa and Kawasaki who both beat J2 opponents 4-0 away from home.

While the FC Tokyo bandwagon... came to a screeching halt away at Mito, who claimed a famous 1-0 home win to progress to the fourth round of the first round, which will conclude on Wednesday, October the 28th.

And hopefully I'll remember to give you those fixtures on next week's pod before they're played after I forgot to do so at the end.

So

it's the four of the ACL teams, Vissel, Kobe, Kashima, Antlers, Kashiwa, Reysol, matching at Zelvia.

And then five teams who are not in the ACL, which is Sanfrecci, Hiroshima, Urawa Reds, Yokama, F. Marinos, Kawasaki, Frontale, and Cerezo, Osaka.

So, I mean, with the kind of front-loaded nature of the cup competitions, i.e. before Christmas, you would be tempted to go for that latter group, maybe, that don't have any ACL games.

Nice to talk to you.

Just about recovered from the beating that your Comm FC got against Urawa in the Levan Cup last night.

So we'll gloss over that very quickly.

But yeah, 10 games played, right, in J2 so far.

Who are those players? I'm looking at the list.

James Overy from Man United under 21s, Takahiro Sekine from the Urawa Red Diamonds.

Who are you most excited about, Patrick?

I, I, I think all of them.

Uh, Tokyo Verdy won 4-3 on penalties against Tottori of J3 after a nil-nil draw.

Uh, Urawa triumphed 3-2 at Omiya in a pulsating Saitama derby.

And the final university team fell in gallant fashion at the Nissan Stadium against Yokohama F Marinos.

The students of Kyoto Sangyo University took a sensational lead 10 minutes before halftime, but, uh, F Marinos struck twice in seven minutes midway through the second half and progressed 2-1.

Um, but yeah, o- other than that I think, um, I mean, yeah, Frontale went away to Miyazaki.

That looked like a bit of a banana skin, but they, they dealt with that.

Um, and yeah, Urawa's favorite result seems to be 3-2, so I'm not particularly shocked that they won 3-2 against Omiya.

And as I said last week, I, I didn't really see Yokohama FC beating Fukuoka at home as, as, as a shock.