Perennial underachievers Kawasaki Frontale will be hoping to make it fourth time lucky when they face Cerezo Osaka in the final of the YBC Levain Cup on Saturday.
Frontale have never won a major domestic title and will be looking to break a League Cup jinx, having suffered heartbreak with defeat three times in the final, most recently in 2009.
And Frontale's talismanic midfielder and reigning J. League Player of the Year Kengo Nakamura, who has just turned 37, is determined to help his side finally end the trophy drought and shed his own tag as a nearly man.