Official 2012 Japanese NT Thread

anyone able to tell me the changes?
I see Sakai, Maeda in, anyone else?

Meanwhile, both Kurihara and Maeda are still there. Kurihara and Maeda, the importance of being nothing and useless.

Maeda came on for Morimoto some minutes before halftime. Now H. Sakai and Takahashi were on for Uchida and Hasebe.

man, our passing is too often so crap today...

lol at the goal.

Okazaki scores a ton for the NT

Miyaichi coming on

Miyaichi time, Kagawa out

Sakai already looking better than Uchida

Not a bad start by Sakai, Honda was unlucky there.

=| that corner should've been an Azerbaijan goal. Wake up please!

Since Kagawa went out I didn't like us much. Especially in defense :/

Fulltime...

Toulon tournament in 4 hours for those who want some more NT actioon.

Thanks for the reminder.

Wait, do you think it will be streamed somewhere?

its broadcasted live in Japan, so yes you will find streams also

How was the game? Please post highlights when available.

Has anyone found out why Honda played as number 4?

Maybe it was just a random choice, like he said "I'm the boss here and I play with the number I want"

Now we need to find a replay of this game. I just came home

Goal clips please

I'm not sure if there's enough decent highlights from that match, Kagawa's goal was nice but Okazaki's was mishit and deflected off the defender. Second half was a bit stale but it was good to see Miyaichi and Sakai and co making their debut. Takahashi had one nice cross to Okazaki.

Kagawa


Okazaki

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120523-01100699-gekisaka-socc

Here's detailed (yeah, as much as details about his thinking process as possible in this matter) story from first hand if you'd like to dig a bit more about that

Thank you for the goals. Now if someone could supply the link where we can watch the replay (or download it) it would be great

Extended highlights:
1st half - 2nd half

He has like 27 goals in 49 matches or something like that? Amazing stats.