The Kashiwa Reysol Chronicle
Squad28 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yuto Yamada
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kashiwa Reysol lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Tojiro Kubo breaks a bone — 95 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Feb 2028
The run at home goes on for Kashiwa Reysol
17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Market28 Feb 2028
Claudivan puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kashiwa Reysol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Age has not caught Yusuke Segawa yet — 7.82
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Kashiwa Reysol lose Kento Misao
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Kashiwa Reysol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taiyo Koga is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Nothing got past Kaito Yasui
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
One of those days for Taiyo Koga
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Match Kashiwa Reysol get the job done against Vegalta Sendai
- Player ratings Tomoaki Okubo in the eights
- Market Shonan Bellmare are about to pick up the phone