First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the supporters who came to our final home game. We had some difficult matches throughout the year, but I am also very grateful to all the supporters who came to encourage and encourage the players until the very end.
As for today's game, it was the last game of the league and the Expo, so of course the players understood that, and although it depended on the result of FC Tokyo, I told the players before the game that it was also about what kind of game we wanted to play to create that kind of flow. Although it was an invisible opponent, we started the game thinking about whether we could put pressure on them and whether we could play that kind of game, but in the first half, we couldn't play the way we wanted to. However, the two players who came on as substitutes really changed the flow of the game. This is something we've been doing all season, with the mindset that "anyone can play," and there were some games where we were struggling and the players who came on as substitutes couldn't change the flow, but I think that all the players worked hard and diligently throughout the year, which is why we were able to get a victory like today, and I think that the gods of soccer have rewarded us with tickets to the CS as a result of the results we've had for the past year. However, the season is still to come, so we'll switch our mindset and focus on the Urawa match, and prepare for the week while savoring the joy of being able to play soccer and practice.

Q: What was your aim in putting Nagasawa in and dropping Usami to the second row?
A: Yes. Depending on how the game develops, I thought it might be better to have some starting points up front. Kurata injured his back in the first half, so I was watching him for a while, but he looked like he was in a lot of pain, so I moved Takashi down to the 1.5th row. Jae-suk also performed well on the left wing in the previous match, so I used him on the right wing this time, but the scenery changed and we couldn't build up the play as we wanted, so we decided to put Yonekura in and increase the forward momentum. We got the impression that we could create a starting point up front, and Takashi could move more freely in the 1.5th row than at the very front.