August and a bit round up!

R21 FC Gifu 1-1 Roasso Kumamoto (Goal: Shimada)

R22 Mito Hollyhock 1-2 FC Gifu (Goal: Oshitani 2)

R23 FC Gifu 1-0 JEF Chiba (Goal: Nishikawa)

R24 Tokyo Verdy 2-0 FC Gifu

So Gifu after some impressive results are now sitting in 11th, with a game against bottom placed Gilavantz Kitakyushu at home next week. Still, we don't look super strong, but challenging at least.

Emperor's Cup Round 1:
FC Gifu 2-3 Tochigi SC (Goal: Nishikawa, Yoshimoto)

After 38mins, Gifu were down by three and Tochigi were tearing Gifu apart. But the tide changed when Gifu scored not one, but two, yes TWO goals from set play. One from a corner and one from a free kick. Tochigi then had a defender red-carded and Gifu looked like scoring the goal that would take them into extra time. Someya was tripped in the final minute in the box, but the ref decided to penalise Someya instead and Tochigi won the game. Was a game of two halfs, that we should have won in the end but alas... the fairy tale of last years Emperor's Cup heroics was not to continue in 2010...