This year's Asian Games Men's Football Group D has only three teams - Japan, Palestine and Qatar - and Japan will face Qatar first on Wednesday (20).
As I mentioned before, Japan will send college and high school students to play in this year's tournament. On the surface, the fighting strength is not as good as before, but don't underestimate this group of young players, in fact, some of them have already played in professional leagues, and judging from my experience, I believe that the strength of Japanese youngsters is still higher than Qatar players.
However, with reference to the past records and past experience, Japan's youth teams are not the same as the big national football teams. The teams seldom beat their opponents in previous international matches, and usually slow down the tempo after taking the lead, controlling the ball on the foot, and winning by 1 or 2 goals in the end.
