Stating that Argentina also made this mistake, the 41-year-old successful coach commented on the Germany-Japan match with the following words:
“First of all, when we look at Japan’s squad, I see that the goalkeeper, right-back and left-back play in their own countries in the first 11. Apart from that, most of the players playing in Europe are playing the ball. This means that there are good football players with individual talents and they come to Europe and come to Europe. They apply the discipline and system of these leagues and reflect their national teams in a beneficial way. While Germany started the match well yesterday, while keeping the game under control, it could not continue. It failed to break the game early. When you lead in such tournaments and in such matches, you will either finish the opponent completely, or you will get it. You will know how to protect your advantage until the end. As the match continued 1-0 and Germany could not turn the goal opportunities, Japan took advantage of this kind of negligence and started chasing, believing that they had a right and a chance in the game. and then he scored the winning goal.Japan won the world especially in the last 20 minutes. He proved that indifference and relaxation have no place in football.
“WE SHOULD NOT WALK GERMANY”
But I would like to say this. Germany should definitely not be underestimated for such a defeat. Germany has always proven in history that it is a tournament team. For him, I think this first match was a good lesson for them, but of course they put the group in a bit of trouble, that’s a fact. But it certainly does not come to forget Germany. At the moment, the World Cup has not witnessed any other big surprises, except for the Saudi Arabian and Japanese scores. Matches are competitive, sometimes we witness competitions with plenty of goals, sometimes competitions with no goals at all. But when we look at the game in general, I couldn’t watch and see an abnormally changing subject. As a standard, teams want to be more compact and achieve success with a fast transition game. But every country wants to reflect its own DNA on the field. Spain showed the best example of this. With a young national team, they reflected a football with its own DNA onto the field. Finally, I would like to say that the first matches of the tournament and many teams played cautiously. There are matches that ended in a draw and that shows that they were psychologically cautious.”
5 BUNDESLIGA PLAYERS IN THE TOP 11
While 5 players in the first 11 played with the Japan National Team, they played in the Bundesliga; goalkeeper Gonda, right-back Sakai and left-back Nagatomo are currently competing in their country’s league.
Bundesliga players playing for Japan in the Germany-Japan match are as follows:
STOPER: Ko Itakura / Mönchengladbach
STOPER: Maya Yoshida / Schalke 04
FRONT LIBERO: Wataru Endo / Stuttgart
MIDDLE FIELD: Tanaka / Fortuna Dusseldorf
NUMBER 10: Daichi Kamada / E. Frankfurt
ENTERING THE GAME AFTER
Winger – Striker: Takuma Asano / Bochum / GOAL TO WIN
WING: Ritsu Doan / Freiburg
DID NOT PLAY
DEFENDER: Hiroki Ito / Stuttgart