Overview: Is there a worse team in the world than the Chinese national soccer team? It is theoretically possible, after all, the Chinese national soccer team has yet to drop to the bottom of the world rankings. Despite its underwhelming strength, at least against opponents such as Malaysia, the Chinese national soccer team has been unbeaten for 43 consecutive years. With one game out of the way, another team surfaces that is even worse than the national soccer team, and that is unthinkable for a European powerhouse and World Cup winner!
In other words, on international match days, Asia's mighty Japan actively seeks warm-up opponents. They focused on Europe, officially accepting an invitation worth 100 million euros to play at home in Germany. This is the first match between the two teams since the Qatar World Cup. I remember at the Qatar World Cup, although Japan won 2-1, they were quite embarrassing. Possession was less than 30% and shots were 11, less than half of their opponents.
In the eyes of the German Football Association, European teams have an innate sense of superiority when facing Asian teams, so Japan is undoubtedly a very suitable opponent, wanting to boost the team's confidence and accomplish a revenge. Perhaps, Japan in the eyes of the German team is like Vietnam in the eyes of the national soccer team, only regrettably, today is different from the past.
Just 11 minutes into the match, Suga was strong on the right and crossed the ball underneath, where Junya Ito grabbed the front spot to score, catching Germany off guard, who slightly lifted their spirits. In the 19th minute, a diagonal pass was sent to the top of Wiltz's arc, and the far corner score was swept by Sane from the right side of the penalty area, bringing the two teams back to the same starting line, which made the Japanese team even more excited.
In the 22nd minute, Japan's forward passing and control got advanced as Junya Ito acted as a pivot on the right side of the box for Eisei Ueda. The latter had no one in front of the goal to watch the defense. The German players were frozen in place at the time and didn't seem to know what the defense was doing. The third goal of the match came in the 90th minute when Goossens made a mistake at the back post. Kubo Kenyoung led the ball into the box, but chose to knock in a cross for an unselfish assist to Takuma Asano, completely dismantling Ter Stegen's defense, who managed to push an open goal.
In the 92nd minute, Kubo Kenyoung chose the right side of the box. Bea Tanaka shook her head and the ball bounced into the net, killing the game. Germany defeated Japan 1-4, losing for the second consecutive time in a year. Starting with the technical stats, Japan's possession in this game was seven points higher than against Germany in the Qatar World Cup, with 14 shots, even more than Germany. The latter had only 11 shot attempts in this game. It seems that the position of the hunter and the prey has changed. The European giants have become a fish-belly team with the experience and swipe points of the blue warriors to boost their confidence!
Focusing on the lineups of both teams, the German team can be called a luxury. Almost all the players are starters in the big five league's luxury teams, such as Gündoğan, Gnabry, Rüdiger, Ter Stegen. Which one of them is not a famous soccer player? Aero Endo, Kenyo Tomoyasu and Mifune are famous in Japan's top five leagues. It is against the backdrop of extremely contrasting strengths that a Blue Warriors win is more valuable.
What we need to know is that even the national soccer team has not scored four goals in a game. One of the most agonizing cases of Warrior Blue failure we have ever experienced was the match between the Chinese men's soccer team and Japan in the 2004 Asian Cup final. At that time, the national soccer team lost 1-3. Obviously, today's German team, facing Japan, is even worse than the national soccer team, and against this background, the fans are justified in chanting "Frick out".
As far as the defeat is concerned, Furyk does not think at all that he made a mistake in the arrangement of the lineup that led to the defeat. He refused to take the responsibility and also borrowed the attitude of the national team's former head coach Li Tie. Frick said that the team was in excellent shape during the interview and that he was the best choice for Germany's head coach. Not to be outdone, the only thing left of him is the confidence in his mouth. As Li Tie said, our domestic coaches are not necessarily worse than foreign coaches and can achieve success. However, what makes it ironic is that he ended up in jail.
