When Blue Cannonball was conceptualizing the Kada
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Ben's prediction for Japan in the "Asia's Best Team" article was: "Beware of falling into the abyss of total defeat. "I was lucky to get past Germany and thought I could easily face Costa Rica when I got hammered, which made me think back to my previous judgment on Japan. But in all fairness, against Germany and Spain in the same group, two teams who have won the
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(used form a nominal expression)
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It's a "reasonable" judgment that they'll lose, and Costa Rica says they're not as good as Japan, but they're also the best team in the world.
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regulars, and at its height also scored
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Pessimism about the hard core of the top eight is within reason. But after watching the second game of the Japanese team, my personal summary is: "Japan lost to themselves. "
There are many ways to discuss Japan's "losing to itself", but the Blue Cannonball summarizes it into a few main reasons. In this article, let me discuss with you and analyze the reasons why Japan fell despite the good situation.
Figure/Website: Japan
an upset (esp. in sports)
Lost to Costa Rica (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/)
After Japan's upset of Germany, I can see Chinese sports bloggers, Chinese sports media, and all kinds of small and large townspeople are all excited about Japan's victory, even my wife, who doesn't like to watch soccer matches, knows that. So carrying the morale and superiority of the victory in the face of Central America's Costa Rica can be said to be full of confidence, after all, the other game of Spain to fight Germany, the two strongest battle will certainly have a wound, Japan is basically a foot into the round of sixteen.
The announcement of the starting lineup for the match revealed that five players had been replaced in the two matches against Japan (more on the replacement lineup below). The first half was a back-and-forth affair, with both sides evenly matched in terms of possession, and neither side taking advantage of the other, with Japan having chances to score, but failing to capitalize on them. In the second half, the team quickly brought on Takuma Asano and Yohki Ito, who had made his debut in the previous game, and the offense and initiative slowly began to tilt in Japan's favor. In the 60th minute or so, Kaoru Toma and Junya Ito were sent in to strengthen the offense, but they were all held by the brave players from Colombia.
Picture/Website: Japan's power play to no avail (https://www.tri-cityherald.com/)
In the 81st minute, there was a mess in Japan's backline defense. Yohki Ito and Maya Yoshida were not thorough in clearing the ball, allowing Costa Rica players to take advantage of the pressure, affecting Hidemasa Mamorita's mistake, allowing the opponent to cut in and cross the ball to Keysher Fuller, who was in the penalty box, and shot a massive shot. Costa Rica's first goal of the season came when the goalkeeper, Shuichi Gonda, made a great effort but the ball only moved to his fingers.
At the end of the game, Japan played a few one passes into the opponent's penalty area, but when they tried to shoot, they were surrounded by the opponent and failed to equalize the score, and finally lost the game.
Supervisor Ichi Morihiro replied during an interview after the game:
Apart from scoring goals, all we wanted was to not concede, create attacking chances and try to score, but the result was not what we were aiming for.
Although understand the explanation of Mori supervision, the plan seems to be successful, in fact, the root of the loss can be seen from several aspects, we will see exactly what causes the Japanese team to the result of the defeat.
In one of the praise pieces that the Blue Cannonballs have been seeing all over the place for a while now, I found a blogger who aptly described Mori Boichi's deployment in the Germany game as a "horse race" strategy. In his words, he used players who were not regulars to deplete the German team, and then in the second half of the match, he put in real players to surprise the German team. In the second half of the game, the real players would be used to blitz the German team and eventually win the game. However, after watching the match against Costa Rica, Mori's strategy of playing "Jealousy of the Horse" is not only for the second match, but also for the whole group stage of the tournament. However, the essence of chess is how to win by utilizing the function of one's own pieces and by linking the movement of other pieces. I believe that Kazuyoshi Morihiro knows each and every player under his command, but he overestimates them.
Following the above mentioned replacement of five replacement starters, first of all I think it is right to leave them on the bench due to the injury problems of Hiroki Sakai and Kenyo Tomoyasu, and to replace the domestic player Yamane Sakurai is also a regular choice of the supervisor because Mori Supervisor intends to cultivate him to succeed Hiroki Sakai. As for the Tanaka Bea for Mamorita Hidemasa should also be in the plan, because in the
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Most of the former starting double midfielders predicted by various media outlets opted for Hidemasa Morita and Hiromasa Endo as the starting pair, after all, in the
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Both and the ball club are the go-to guys for midfielders in the Japanese team right now. Just can't think about starting Yuki Soma and Eisei Ueda.
