Kawasaki Frontale cruised into the 2017 AFC Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday after beating Muangthong United 4-1 in the second leg of the last 16 \u00a0to progress 7-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n
Yu Kobayashi snuck an effort under Muangthong goalkeeper Kawin Thamsatchanan from the edge of the area to open the scoring in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n
Just a minute later Kobayashi turned provider as he assisted Tatsuya Hasegawa for the second goal, and Eduardo Neto headed a third five minutes before half-time.<\/p>\n
Rhayner scored Kawasaki\u2019s fourth goal in the 79th minute, converting after another Kobayashi assist, before Teerasil Dangda headed home a late consolation for Muangthong with a minute remaining.<\/p>\n
Kawasaki will now take part in the AFC Champions League quarter-finals for the third time, and first since 2009 when they were eliminated at the hands of fellow Japanese side Nagoya Grampus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kawasaki Frontale cruised into the 2017 AFC Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday after beating Muangthong United 4-1 in the second leg of the last 16 \u00a0to progress 7-2 on aggregate. Yu Kobayashi snuck an effort under Muangthong goalkeeper Kawin Thamsatchanan from the edge of the area to open the scoring in the 31st minute. Just a minute later Kobayashi turned provider as he assisted Tatsuya Hasegawa for the second goal, and Eduardo Neto headed a third five minutes before half-time. Rhayner scored Kawasaki\u2019s fourth goal in the 79th minute, converting after another Kobayashi assist, before Teerasil Dangda headed home a late consolation for Muangthong with a minute remaining. Kawasaki will … Continue reading “Kawasaki Frontale stroll into the last eight after beating Muangthong United”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,32,38],"tags":[733,104],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-champions-league","category-japan","category-thailand","tag-kawasaki-frontale","tag-muangthong-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}