(2011.01.17) AFC Asian Cup: Saudi Arabia x Japan [R]

Hoonda esuffered a sprained ankel?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


No No he such big hational hero is hee ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Amen.
Underappreciated genius, he is.
I would love to see the stats on how many NT matches Endo and Ono played together... very few, I would guess. And right there is a key reason Japan's golden generation fell short of the heights it could have achieved.

 

congrats on shutting down the Arabs. They were below average this WC qualification. There AFC performance is terribad. I'd say they are the 2nd worst team in the tournament in front of India. They seriously need to do something about this. Former Middle East powerhouse should do a lot better.

The smaller AFC nations have really stepped up there game this year. GL on your knock off rounds.

 

Kashiwagi and Ono seem to be polar opposites, mentally. Ono came back from Europe much steelier and wilier. Kashiwagi gets intimidated very easily and seemed to give away a free kick every time he went near a Saudi today. Overall I don't know if Kashiwagi will ever grow into a player I would describe as "authoritative".

 

Uchida after the game.
（サウジは）予想以上にモチベーションがなかったですね。フリーすぎてびっくりするくらいだったんで。国際試合であれだけモチベーションのないチームって珍しいんじゃないですか。もう少し試合をするならそれなりの気持ちを持ってやってほしかったかな。サウジはオリンピックの（予選の）時とか強かったけど。日本にはちょっとできないですね。敗退が決まっていたとしても、日本人はまじめだからもうちょっと頑張ると思う。あそこまで力がリラックスできるチームはさすが中東ですね。

 

The guy is still young, he turned 23 a month ago and today's game was only his 2 nd cap with seniors.

 

Motivation is probably the last thing we need to worry about.

 

Why why you japanese ignore me!!!!!!!!!!!!

is honda ok? when he come back?

japan people so tiny and rude sometiems.

 

troll or are you being serious?

If you're serious, he was rested against Saudi, obviously he's still in the tournament and If his condition worsens, probably not. We haven't had any news to confirm yes or no.

 

No troll No troll.

Thank you very much. By for now.

 

Sometimes a poster comes along so bizarre he transcends mere trollness.
I'm guessing this guy is one of them.

 

It's too bad Honda takes the penalties for Japan now. Endo's slow roll PKs were amazing in their simplicity and ballsiness.


Not that we can watch the Asian Cup in the US, but still.

 

haha thanks >_>

 

Just to clarify, I was referring to the weirdo you were quoting, of course, not to you.

 

My apologies then.

 

Why is Honda taking the penalties though, it clearly isn't a strength of his? even when he scored during the Paraguay shooting at the WC, it was such a soft shot that would have easily been saved if the keeper didn't guess wrongly.

 

yeah, it was kind of funny though- he shot it, paused for a sec if it got in the net and then when it did he went all ecstatic.

 

Yeah, I saw him sprinting after the game, as I was in the stadium, and there were almost a dozen of Japanese fans cheering him.

 

Penalties are weird though because the goalkeepers will try to read the guy and try to figure out where the ball is going to go. The penalty taker will try to throw them off by looking/shaping to kick the ball somewhere else. It's difficult to coordinate all that convincingly. Honda's PK was pretty horrible and nearly got saved, but you can't argue with the results. If goalkeepers start figuring him out and saving them, then it would probably be the time to find someone else, though even then I'd think hard about it. Honda seems to have just the right temperament for penalties because he seems to have confidence enough that a miss wouldn't faze him too much.

 

I don't think anybody's worried he'll be fazed if he misses, we're worried Japan will lose if he misses!