With Sam away on his holidays, Jonny Nicol slipped in to the co-host's chair for this week's episode as we reviewed a bumper weekend of J1 action and controversy.

After beginning with some of the major events from last Wednesday night's Matchday 20, we start our weekend review with the leaders Yokohama F.Marinos needing a late rally to scrape a point away at Cerezo Osaka, while second placed Kashima missed their chance to close the gap on top spot as they were held up in Sapporo.

Next we move on to Kawasaki's big win over 10-man Gamba Osaka, the early VAR-assisted red card practically killing the game as a contest (to 44:15), before we spend most of the second half of the episode in and around what is shaping as an elongated relegation dogfight.