FC Tokyo – GK Gonda, DF/MF Tokunaga and MF Yonemoto are all with the Olympic team. MF Otake is out for the season. DF Jang out for three months. MF Hanyu out for at least another month.
Albirex Niigata – DF Suzuki is with the Olympic team. DF Uchida out for the season. FW Suzuki out for three months.
Seven wins each and two draws over the last decade – all in J1 except for a solitary League Cup home victory for Tokyo in 2010.

FC Tokyo (7th – P18 W9 D1 L8 GD 0 Pts. 28) started well, let their ACL campaign get in the way, then suffered injuries to key players and now have players in London with the Olympic squad to add to the missing! They have lost three of the last four games but know they need to win this one, in front of their own fans, if they are to keep in touch with the top three.
Albirex Niigata (16th – P18 W4 D5 L9 GD -11 Pts. 17) have won two of their last five, all be it against Sapporo (1-0) and S-Pulse (when they scored the only goal of the game despite being under pressure for most of the match) but luck can not side with them all of the time and Tokyo will make the most of the fact that Albirex are also missing a key player to the Olympic squad in Suzuki! EXPECT a WIN for FC TOKYO!