Wednesday saw the second round of the 2024 Emperor’s Cup being played out, with clubs from the J.League 1 and J.League 2 joining the fray in Japan’s annually-contested domestic cup competition. And already there were several shock results – J1 surprise packages and current league leaders Machida Zelvia and last season’s 6th placed finishers Nagoya Grampus were knocked out by university teams from the University of Tsukuba and Japan Soccer College respectively, while several other favorites were made to work hard for their third round tickets. All 20 J2 teams and 19 out of the 20 J1 contestants…