AFC Champions League Quarter-finals: Focus on Kawasaki Frontale
(WorldNews Asia)

The quarter-final defeat to Nagoya in 2009, was the second consecutive last eight elimination for Kawasaki. Their maiden appearance at the AFC Champions League had come two years earlier. Drawn in a Group F with Korea Republic`s Chunnam Dragons, Arema Malang of Indonesia and Thai club Bangkok University, the Japanese side breezed through the first phase with five wins in six games as they went undefeated to top the standings. In the Knockout Stage, though, the J.League club came unstuck. After 210 minutes of football over two legs with no goals, Kawasaki were eliminated on a penalty shoot-out by the eventual runners-up, Sepahan of IR Iran. The club then failed to qualify for the 2008 AFC...