Cerezo Osaka were crowned the Emperor\u2019s Cup champions following the 2-1 extra-time win over Yokohama F. Marinos in the final on Monday.<\/p>\n
Sho Ito took the lead for Marinos 8 minutes into the match,\u00a0however the team lost some of their attacking strength when midfielder Ryosuke Yamanaka was replaced due to injury at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n
Taking advantage of the opportunities, Cerezo were leveled off in the 65th minute with a goal from Kazuya Yamamura.<\/p>\n
Since neither side was able to find the net in the remaining 25 minutes, the final then went into extra-time.<\/p>\n
Cerezo secured the win when Kota Mizunuma struck the winner in the 95th minute thanks to a goalkeeping error by Hiroki Iikura.<\/p>\n
This victory\u00a0secures coach Yoon Jong-hwan\u2019s side a place in this year\u2019s AFC Champions League<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cerezo Osaka were crowned the Emperor\u2019s Cup champions following the 2-1 extra-time win over Yokohama F. Marinos in the final on Monday. Sho Ito took the lead for Marinos 8 minutes into the match,\u00a0however the team lost some of their attacking strength when midfielder Ryosuke Yamanaka was replaced due to injury at the end of the first half. Taking advantage of the opportunities, Cerezo were leveled off in the 65th minute with a goal from Kazuya Yamamura. Since neither side was able to find the net in the remaining 25 minutes, the final then went into extra-time. Cerezo secured the win when Kota Mizunuma struck the winner in the 95th … Continue reading “Cerezo Osaka crowned the Emperor\u2019s Cup champions”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[165,57,175],"class_list":["post-10147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-cerezo-osaka","tag-japan","tag-yokohama-f-marinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}