2008 Suruga Bank Championship

Gamba Osaka Arsenal 0 1
Date	July 30, 2008
Venue	Nagai Stadium, Osaka
Referee	Liang Zhao (China)
Attendance	19,278
Weather	Fine; 31.0°C
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The 2008 Suruga Bank Championship (Japanese: スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2008; Spanish: Copa Suruga Bank 2008) is the inaugural match between the winners of the previous season's J. League Cup and the Copa Sudamericana. It was contested by the 2007 J. League Cup winner Japanese club Gamba Osaka and the 2007 Copa Sudamericana champion Argentine club Arsenal.

The match was won by Arsenal after a late second-half header by Carlos Casteglione off a corner kick by Javier Yacuzzi.

July 30, 2008

19:00 (UTC+9)

Gamba Osaka	0–1	Arsenal
	Report[permanent dead link‍]	Casteglione 87'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 19,728

Referee: Liang Zhao (China)

Gamba Osaka

Arsenal

GAMBA OSAKA: GK 22 Yosuke Fujigaya DF 2 Sota Nakazawa  87' DF 5 Satoshi Yamaguchi (c)  90+7' DF 19 Takumi Shimohira  88' DF 21 Akira Kaji  63' MF 10 Takahiro Futagawa MF 16 Hayato Sasaki  84' MF 17 Tomokazu Myojin  90+4' MF 27 Hideo Hashimoto FW 9 Lucas FW 30 Masato Yamazaki  67' Substitutes: GK 25 Naoki Matsuyo DF 9 Mineiro  88' DF 5 Yohei Fukumoto  63' MF 14 Shu Kurata  87'  67' MF 11 Takuya Takei  84' FW 15 Shoki Hirai  90+4' FW 22 Hideya Okamoto  90+7' Manager: Akira Nishino

ARSENAL: GK 1 Mario Cuenca DF 18 Christian Díaz  90+5' DF 4 Darío Espínola  81' DF 6 Aníbal Matellán DF 19 Josimar Mosquera MF 16 Sebastián Carrera  71' MF 13 Carlos Casteglione (c) MF 5 Cristian Pellerano  89'  90+4' MF 8 Javier Yacuzzi FW 10 Alejandro Gómez  90+2' FW 11 Facundo Sava  19'  76' Substitutes: GK 12 Catriel Orcellet DF 3 Carlos Báez DF 2 Mariano Brau DF 14 Javier Gandolfi  81' DF 20 Damián Pérez MF 15 Nahuel Sachetto  90+2' MF 7 Andrés San Martín  90+4' FW 17 Facundo Coria  76' FW 9 Luciano Leguizamón  71' Manager: Daniel Garnero

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