In the group stage of the 2018 World Cup, Japan struggled to break through the group stage with Fair Play Points, facing Belgium, who were the favorites to win the title at the time, the Japanese team continued their group stage amazement, leading Belgium by as much as two goals at one point, but at the end of the game could not cope with the Belgian counterattack, and in the last 14 seconds of injury time, the Japanese team was brutally reversed by Belgium and stopped
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Inside the Tove Stadium, Japan faced Belgium, the world's third-ranked team at the time, and twice seized on Belgium's lax defense to increase the score to 2:0. As Japan thought it was gradually grasping the opportunity to win, the situation began to change.
Two points ahead, Japan made the fatal mistake of keeping the status quo. As Japan scored their second point and the players rushed en masse to the bench to celebrate, captain Makoto Hasebe asked coach Ron Nishino whether to keep the status quo, and in the midst of his excited celebrations, Nishino gave that seemingly commonplace, but in fact incredibly lax, instruction to keep the status quo, keep the status quo.
In terms of the result, the coach gave very unclear instructions to keep the status quo, on the one hand, in sharp contrast to Belgium's thoroughly strong sense of chasing points against Japan.
On the other hand, the 11 players on the field must not have the exact same maintenance status quo, some want to maintain the two points and create a sense of defense, some want to maintain the offense and create a sense of offense, the difference between these two kinds of consciousness alone will lead to the stand, pass, run position to create disharmony, and then there is a mutation, even the coach, Nishinoran himself said that the instructions at that time were simply imperfect instructions, obviously have the Even coach Nishino himself said that the instruction was not perfect, obviously there is a chance to expand the score, but because of his own ambiguous command, he missed a good opportunity.
Immediately after, in the 68th minute of the second half, Makoto Hasebe fumbled the ball onto Shinji Kagawa, which bounced away, and then the possession was converted.
Lax? Makoto Hasebe recalled that this seemingly minor mistake seemed to hint at a change in the Japanese team, which was converted into a goal by Belgium a minute later, turning the tide on the field.
At this point, what was on the mind of the Japanese team was not that they were still ahead by one point, but that they were one point away from being tied, and with Belgium's onslaught of attacks, the Japanese team gradually grew fearful until the score was tied.
In the 81st minute of the second half, Japan brought on Hotaru Yamaguchi and Keisuke Honda with the intention of splitting the points in regular time, and both sides kept on pummeling the ball until injury time, when Keisuke Honda's free kick was parried by Courtois for a corner, and the chance came to Japan's side.
Japan, who had been awarded a corner, used the same corner tactic as they had used to beat Colombia, intending to repeat the same old play, but Belgium were prepared for it, with both Kompany and Fellaini keeping a close eye on the runner, and the corner went straight to the keeper, followed by a dramatic 14 seconds.
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After the corner kick, keeper Courtois had not yet received the ball, De Bruyne at the side of the goal had already started, and Courtois saw De Bruyne in a moment of afterimage, and after receiving the ball, he immediately handed the ball to De Bruyne for a quick counterattack, and the Japanese team pressed all the way in this corner kick, and the backfield of the Japanese team can be said to be flat, so De Bruyne had enough space for a sprint. De Bruyne had enough space to sprint.
The first point of defense of this wave of counterattack, is Japan's just failed corner kick scramble Yoshida Maya, if Yoshida Maya block Courtois's pass, will be able to immediately stop Belgium's counterattack, but Yoshida Maya at that time for a split second thought is that the ball was dissolved, just a moment of lapse of concentration, the Japanese team missed the first line of defense.
And De Bruyne sprinted to the center circle at a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour early on, pairing with other Belgian players to create a five-on-three situation against Japan.
