On June 7, Beijing time, 2022 Qatar
World Cup
The second phase of the Asian qualifying round and Group F of the 40-team tournament came to a close. Despite the fact that Japan locked up a spot in the top 12 in advance and most of the main players did not play, the team still beat Tajikistan by a score of 4-1, continuing to remain undefeated, and now boasts a record of 41 goals scored and 1 goal conceded; while the Tajikistan team with 7 matches, 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats, accumulating 10 points to stay in second place in the group. In the eight groups of second-place teams, Tajikistan team 5 games, 1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses, scored 6 goals and lost 12 goals, only one point difference in the standings at the end of the Chinese team after.
Group F results: Japan 4-1 Tajikistan; Kyrgyzstan 0-1 Mongolia
In light of Japan's 10-0 win over Myanmar in the last round, which has already locked up a spot in the Top 12 ahead of schedule, head coach Hiromichi Mori made bold changes to his lineup for this match to provide real-life opportunities for his young players. Takuma Asano was the lone striker in the match, while a number of players with less than five matches' experience, such as Susunosuke Nakatani, Jun Kawabe, Vision Yamane and Henwu Furuhashi, made their debuts in the match.
Only six minutes after the start, Yamane vision of the right side of the precise direct, Takuma Asano attempted to shoot but was blocked by the opposing goalkeeper Yatimov, and then Henwu Furuhashi in 14 meters left-footed goal, Japan's 1-0 lead, which is also the fourth time that Henwu Furuhashi for the Japanese team to score a shot on goal.
In the 9th minute, Japan made a mistake in the penalty area and Tajikistan counterattacked quickly with a cross from the right by Safarov and a header by Panshaembe to level the score at 1-1, the first time Japan has conceded a goal in this year's World Qualifying Asian Zone 40 tournament.
In the 40th minute, Yamane Sightseeing delivered another good ball as Furuhashi Henwu crossed in front of the end line and Minamino Takumi blocked the shot from the front point to give Japan a 2-1 lead at the end of the half.
Both teams made personnel changes in the second half. In the 51st minute, after Hashimoto and Yamane, Hashimoto's right-footed shot from 12 meters on the right side of the penalty area into the lower left corner of the goal, giving Japan a 3-1 lead, and Furuhashi Henwu's first goal for the national team.
Japan then continued to attack and produced a number of threatening shots on goal. In the 71st minute, Tajikistan's goalkeeper Yatimov made a cheap mistake and passed the ball to Kawabe Jun, who scored on an empty net with a right-footed shot from the right side of the box to give Japan a 4-1 lead. In the end, Japan took all three points with a 4-1 victory over Tajikistan.
Mongolia, coached by Japanese head coach Shuichi Mase, ended the second phase of the World Qualifying Tournament with a 1-0 win over Kyrgyzstan, temporarily placing them at the bottom of the group with a record of 6 points from 2 wins, 6 losses, 3 goals scored and 27 goals conceded, ending the second phase of this year's World Qualifying Tournament. (Author: Zhuo Aoyou)
Japan starting line-up: 12-Shuichi Gonda; 4-Shoko Gen, 20-Sinnosuke Nakatani, 19-Sho Sasaki (62'16-Azumiya Ogawa), 22-Visurai Yamane; 13-Kenjin Hashimoto (68'7-Eisumasa Mamorita), 21-Shun Kawanabe; 8-Motoki Haraguchi (46 ' 17-Tatsuhiro Sakamoto), 10-Takumi Minamino (46'9-Daiichi Kamada), 11-Henwu Furuhashi; 18-Takuma Asano (74'6-Shogo Taniguchi)
