gooDevil
Worst scout ever
Tuesday, June 24th, Japan vs. Colombia at Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá (9pm BST, 4pm ET)
Uruguay are not all that. Plus Suarez might even be suspended. Probably not though.For Japan everything has just been so disappointing.
Players: before any individual issues, they seem to be out of shape. They just seem to be not able to move around the pitch so much.
Coach Zacceroni: the fans are being disillusioned, somewhat similar to when the team was losing continuously around the middle of last year. Indecisiveness in substitutions, like being late to put in Okubo in the game against Ivory Coast. Confusion in player utilization, moving players around and using them in positions we've never used before in the WC after four years of preparation. Not being able to direct the players to play an effective attack against the ten-men Greeks but instead instructing them to play long high balls which was never successful even in test matches. Leaving one sub unused when he could have put in Saito, the dribbler, for a change of pace...
Players' confidence in the themselves and the coach is bad. They had to cancel training for a change of mood this week.
Just want them to show a good fight in the last game. Just do the best you can, don't regret later we could have or should have played some other way.
According to some sources, Kakitani might start as CF and Aoyama as CM, but we never know.
Expecting Colombians will be using players who haven't started before but they'd still be very good. Any chance they might not want to win considering their next opponent?
Probably the best team Japan could field right now. Kakitani has not been the same player in 2014, and they need a few changes in CM, so the Aoyama inclusion makes sense, even though he's pretty fresh.Japan: Kawashima, Uchida, Honda, Nagatomo, Okazaki, Kagawa, Okubo, Aoyama, Konno, Hasebe, Yoshida.
The Norwegian commentators have also failed to pronounce Okubo's name during this world cup. Okubu, Okobo, Okobu... His name is Okubo goddammit! It's not that hard!So far Dion Dublin has called Nagatomo: Nagamoto and Nagamomo. How many other variations are left?
All teams can go through at this time. Greece just needs to win and hope that Japan doesn't win ther match.Not sure whether to watch this game or the other one tonight. This is quite an interesting group though because there's still 3 teams that can go through.
Somebody needs to photoshop Suarez into the zombie celebration coming up from behind Ramos.That celebration
Rodriguez more established at this time but Quintero needs a consistent season. Hope this helps him top top talentWonderful to see that Quintero is starting. Wouldn't bet against him earning himself a starting berth for the next round. Wonderfully talented footballer, a bigger talent than even Rodriguez imo.