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The story
In Matchday 4 of the Premier League, Crystal Palace hosted Ipswich Town at home and fell 2-3. Kamada Daichi recorded two assists, with his link-up play alongside Tomiyasu Takehiro sparking some of the scoring chances, but Palace conceded the winner to Ipswich’s Fleming late in the second half. For Ipswich, home of Maeda Daizen, it was a valuable win. On the forums, opinions split over how much credit Kamada’s assists really deserved, Palace’s defensive collapse, and the fact that clubs featuring Japanese players — Kamada, Tomiyasu, and Maeda among them — all seem to be struggling right now.
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September 13, 1:17 AM — Sports Hochi, Soccer, Soccer Abroad, Soccer Abroad, Japanese Players
◆Premier League ▽Matchday 4: Crystal Palace 2-3 Ipswich Town (12th, Selhurst Park)
Source: hochi.news / Original article here
What people said
Guess leagues like Scotland really are low level (a dig at his time at Celtic)
Kamada Daichi
Assists: 1st
Tackles: 6th
Ground duels contested: 36th
Ground duels won: 15th
though Tomiyasu's ('Supe-Yasu') through ball that set up the second was genuinely good
>'just the guy scoring a screamer on his own'
lol that got me
but the scary part is Crystal Palace themselves look like they're getting dragged into a relegation fight
(his Angels years) — puts up great individual numbers, but the team still loses
He was in such a great position
Gotta take players on sometimes
Kamada's also around the top 10 in distance covered
Sano Kaishu leads the Bundesliga in distance too
This is where Japan's strength really shows
Feels like they're all headed for a relegation battle
Zion Suzuki's Villa are in the most danger of going down
Wait, wasn't Villa supposed to be a top club?
Guess having a Japanese player really does weaken a team
It's less about Zion and more that they've got no attacking shape at all
They sold off basically every player who drove their recent rise, one after another
Around the first half of last season I thought they had the intensity and defensive solidity to hang with the top sides
Now, looking at the performances and the squad, they're headed straight for relegation
Up through last year guys like Inamoto, Kagawa, and Okazaki ('Oka-chan') had a pretty good hit rate though
Best to stick to places like Germany or Italy
Even with some reinforcements to fill the gaps, they're mid-table level at best now
Then again, sometimes you set up a tap-in and the guy misses it, so it evens out
>Frustrated by his defense's inept display, Kamada shouted in the mixed zone after the match, 'Doesn't matter — even when we score, it's always the same!' (an outburst in Kansai dialect)
Bench: Sakamoto, Tomiyasu, Maeda, Tanaka
Reserve: Morita, Mitoma
Unclear: Endo
Wata (Endo, from his given name Wataru) is out of his club's plans
Isn't that basically the same as the national team lineup?
you need to score goals
He had the most talent of any player in Japanese football history
No use saying it now, but if only he hadn't moved to the Premier League
if only he hadn't been treated as a utility man at Bologna and played out of position at fullback
With the cameras catching Palace fans starting to head for the exits as the loss looked all but certain, it was huge that they fought back to equalize once
Ipswich, despite the losing vibe, snatched a lucky goal to go back ahead
That'd make it a two-man team then…
That's just because Japanese players are scrubs, so they can only get into weak clubs
Background and Talking Points
With Matchday 4 in the books, Crystal Palace’s earlier defensive solidity has faded, and they’ve started conceding more freely. The thread split over how to judge Kamada’s two assists: some, like post #13, downplayed the numbers, arguing the guy he passed to just forced the goal in himself, while the Opta stats cited in post #12 (leading the league in assists, top-6 in tackles, but far down the rankings in ground duels contested and won) paint a picture of a player heavily involved in attack but with more limited defensive impact. The other recurring theme was club-level struggles: Kamada and Tomiyasu’s Palace, Maeda’s Ipswich, Mitoma’s Brighton, Endo’s Liverpool — clubs with Japanese players all seem to be having a rough time. Readers should note this isn’t a statistically grounded claim, just an impression drawn from a single matchday. As for the match itself, Ipswich, who had a man sent off, scored the winner in the closing minutes of the second half for a come-from-behind win, and the Hochi article reports that Kamada himself vented frustration after the match about the fragility of Palace’s defense.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinosupo Sokuho+) thread “[Soccer] Crystal Palace’s Kamada Daichi records two assists, helps set up a goal alongside Tomiyasu Takehiro, but falls to Maeda Daizen’s Ipswich.”
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