U23 Asian Championship; Quarter Final; Iran - Japan [22-01-2016]

[Leopard]

Lineups
JAPAN versus IRAN
1 GK MASATOSHI KUSHIBIKI
3 MF ENDO WATARU (C) 113 99
4 DF IWANAMI TAKUYA
5 DF UEDA NAOMICHI
7 MF RIKI HARAKAWA
10 MF NAKAJIMA SHOYA 108, 110
11 FW YUYA KUBO 82
12 DF MUROYA SEI
15 DF MASASHI KAMEKAWA
20 FW ONAIWU ADO
21 MF SHINYA YAJIMA 88
Japan versus Saudi ar
2 DF KEN MATSUBARA 68 29
5 DF UEDA NAOMICHI
6 DF RYOSUKE YAMANAKA
8 MF RYOTA OHSHIMA (C) 32
10 MF NAKAJIMA SHOYA
13 DF TATSUKI NARA 10
17 MF MISAO KENTO 66
18 FW TAKUMI MINAMINO
19 MF IDEGUCHI YOSUKE 53
20 FW ONAIWU ADO 85
22 GK DAICHI SUGIMOTO
on bench :
1 GK MASATOSHI KUSHIBIKI
3 MF ENDO WATARU
4 DF IWANAMI TAKUYA
7 MF RIKI HARAKAWA
9 FW MUSASHI SUZUKI
11 FW YUYA KUBO 85
12 DF MUROYA SEI
14 FW TOYOKAWA YUTA
15 DF MASASHI KAMEKAWA 68
16 FW TAKUMA ASANO 66
21 MF SHINYA YAJIMA
23 GK NIEKAWA AYUMI


It is not about fitness. It is a fact that the japanese had rested more. Omid team wore itself out in the first half. it played with Gheirat. Seeing these lists can tell you not to bad mad. Even if Motahari had scored 3 goals, the japs would have pushed it into extended periods and the tired legs would have lost in the penalty shootouts even with 3-3. AFC problem to fix the unfairness. anyway this damn sri lanka referee did his damage too. He frightened some players with cards in his pocket.

[Gotham]

Well, that player who said we'll see the real Iran in this match didn't lie. We definitely saw the real Iran

[PSGman#19]

To be frank, I don't care about Olympics (minor football tournament), I didn't even follow the past editions and I couldn't tell the participating teams. Someone was mocking the 2016 participating teams but they would all smack us at this rate and I don't think EU scouts would have like that. Actually, contrary to WC, I think only the best players of the top 3 in Olympic will have interests from EU clubs.

Not qualifying in Basketball, Handball and worst of all in Volleyball upset me much more.

[Gucci10]

That's right.

Lol...

[PersianLegion]

that is true, also CQ has better tactics, if people like MK blame him we cant score we can defend though, how shitty the defense in the second extra time, cant close down and let in 2 goal in 1 min that is bad, really bad, and embarassing to be honest

That's right.

[Leopard]

Actually I had posted the list of the japanese who players in their 3rd match. Almost all were their reserves except for 2. So Team Omid did not have extra day of rest but the japanese has 2 extra days. Omid ran out of breath by the 6th minute. The three subs should have been made and between 60 and 70 minute. We cannot blame the players, because they were tired while the japanese had fresh legs.
If we want to judge the Omid players we just have to watch the first half.
If KP had used the best players and had defeated Qatar then the reserve would have been used in China match.
Anyway KP did not know how to deal with this puzzle. We are better than the Japanese.
In the game Qatar is playing against NK they have an arab lineman who called a goal offside. Maybe NK can start a petition for not having arab referee in Arab related games. maybe S korea will lose for the same kind of injustice and they will join the petition.
one more thing FIFA should ban all loudspeakers with nonsense noise especially in Qatar. no one should attend a game in Qatar just to get his ears damaged.

Motahari did the same thing as the guy in TM did being offside. in one situation actually he was not but the stupid referee made a bad call.

go and see the ball possession, in first half near the end it was 62-38 and it changed slowly as the players got tired and i saw 52-48 at one time.

no more mihani coaches please. This should help CQ to not hear moaning and groaning of mihani coaches. any of CQ, Branko, Kranjkar would have won the championship.

[04041374]

I feel that the coaching staff will remain the same.

[esfandyar123]

First game I have watched from the U23 in years. and my opinion is :
as a x pro soccer player my self playing in Sweden I think,
- The coaches did better than I though they would do.
- We had no attacking method as we did not know what to do when we received the ball in the middle and the third half
- Defense was total shit (especially our full backs)
- It was a close match to be honest but mentally you can tell that Japan was superior which 95% of the time thats what makes the difference (look at licter city)
- Many many bad passes where it could have been 1 to 10 miters aside but our players decided to kick the ball long to switch the play
- Where I think we feel apart was the confident of our coach (Khakpour)
- We did good at some points but a team should not fall apart like we did after the first goal.

Over all rating for the tournament was 6/10
Reasoning behind it was the individual talent of our players.
We have such tallented players compared to asian teams and even European teams but the difference is that they start playing in a system at age of 11 working on tactical abilities where even some of our national players right now are behind tactically.

[04041374]

Funny thing is that the same Goudarzi who was ridiculing the praises after our game against Argentina, told before the games that he is not going to be disappointed whatever happens.

Doesn't this sound like a hypocrite?

[Doctor DOOM]

If Motahari had not wasted all those chances n regular time, we'd ben cheering right now.
He's just too wasteful. Maybe if he focused on his finishing as much as his crappy hairstyle, we would have seen a different scoreline.


We must hire psychologists for our players of all ages and ALL TEAMS. Our players of all ages get too emotional and lose focus easily. That's what happened after Japan's first goal. Our lads just lost all their shape and focus, allowing Japan to seal the game immediately.


This game is the game of missed chances. And we just didn't capitalize on our possession and more importantly on at least 4 brilliant scoring chances!
But they are young and I hope they maintain this form and become a stronger future TM.

After all we pushed Asia's too team to the brink of elimination. That's something to take home and build on.