It would take a Herculean effort for Kashiwa Reysol to match their 2011 achievements over the coming season, but the reigning J. League champions see no reason why they cannot raise the bar and go even higher.

Reysol won their first league title last season just a year after being promoted as second-division champions, and capped a scarcely believable 12 months with a semifinal appearance at the Club World Cup against South American heavyweights Santos in December.

Last season's success has earned Kashiwa a crack at this year's Asian Champions League for the first time, and new signing Daisuke Nasu believes his teammates have what it takes to pull off an unprecedented J. League-ACL double triumph.