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“Even if you lose …” Gamba Osaka Masaaki Higashiguchi is furious at the content of the Kashima match! A sense of crisis in losing four league games in a row | Football Tribe Japan

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Meiji Yasuda Life J1 League Gamba Osaka lost 1-3 in the J1 League Round 29 match against Kashima Antlers on the 18th. With this, Gamba Osaka has lost four league games in a row, but goalkeeper Masaaki Higashiguchi (35) has struck the whole team.

Gamba Osaka lost 0-1 in the 27th round against Cerezo Osaka on the 28th of last month, and left the tournament with a total score of 1-4 against Cerezo Osaka in the YBC Levin Cup Prime Stage quarterfinals. ing. Then, in the 28th round held on the 12th, when Vegalta Sendai, who sank in the J2 league relegation zone, suffered a black star, even in the match against Kashima Antlers, three goals in the second half echoed and they could not get points.

Due to the defeat in this section, Gamba Osaka is ranked 14th, 7 points behind Tokushima Vortis, who is 17th in the J2 league relegation zone. Among them, Masaaki Higashiguchi updated his Instagram account the day after the match against Kashima Antlers. “Even if I lose, I think there is a way to lose, and I can understand the feelings of the supporters’ feelings of sickness painfully. I also feel that I am doing it. I have to change. I have to become a group that can fight more. There are still games where we can change, “he said.

In addition, Gamba Osaka is preparing for the 4th round of the Emperor’s Cup and the Shonan Bellmare match on the 22nd. I’d like to get a chance to emerge in a match against Shonan Bellmare led by Satoshi Yamaguchi, who was the head coach under former coach Tsuneyasu Miyamoto until last season.