Kawasaki Frontale won the first Emperor’s Cup championship. MF Nakamura Kengo (40), who started on the bench, finished the last match without a turn, but manager Oniki wondered: “Who can change the atmosphere of the stadium if it spreads? It was Kengo,” he said.

Kawasaki F kept getting closer to the rival’s goal from the first half, finally opening the scoring with a goal from MF Sansho in the 10th minute of the second half. In the final stage, development kept pushing inward, and especially in the last 5 minutes, he allowed a lot of dangerous shots.

The commander said: “I honestly had a choice to win as I was or put Kengo in the middle of the second half, but today I was thinking about extending it.” He told Nakamura, “Sorry, I couldn’t use it.”

Nakamura himself said, “Oni-san told me he wanted to turn it off, but that was the headmaster’s decision. He was fighting on the bench and I thought he wouldn’t do that either.” It’s a shame I couldn’t get out, but that’s it, and I’m glad I was able to do a full 90-minute head rotation for the team. I think this was a good setting. “Floated.