Emperor's cup 2017:Defeat by Giant-killing

On July 12th, Okayama faced J league division 3 club, AC Nagano Parceiro in the rival's home stadium. At this sec, some players such as Takeda, Ito and Watanabe were back from an injury list, therefore the club were expected to beat Nagano.


Contrary to expectations, headcoach, Nagasawa's gameplan didn't work well. During the match, the red-uniformed men struggled to take the initiative of the game. While, former Fagiano attacker, Kobayashi and his teammate, Sato aggressively kept pushing forward.


After the break, Okayama conceded an opening goal and later, they were not able to equalize the game. As a result, Nagasawa's men were defeated and missed the chance to meet the division 1 club at Emperor's cup 2017