Japan's 1st half line-up against Zimbabwe: Kawashima Komano-Nakazawa-Tulio-Nagatomo Abe-Hasebe-Endo Matsui-Okubo Honda Honda as 1-top, Okubo as left-midfielder/left winger an Matsui as right-midfielder/right/winger Komano as right wingback and Nagatomo as left wingback
1st 0-0 Kawashima - Komano,Nakazawa,Tulio,Nagatomo - Abe, Hasebe, Endo, Matsui, Okubo - Honda 2nd 0-0 Narazaki - Uchida, Iwamasa, Yamamura, Konno - K.Nakamura, Inamoto, S.Nakamura, Okazaki - Morimoto, Tamada 3rd 0-0 Kawaguchi - Konno, Iwamasa, Yamamura, Sakai - Kagawa, Inamoto, K.Nakamura - Nagai, Tamada, Yano then Konno --> Uchida 17min Tamada --> Okazaki 17min
2nd half line-up: 4-2-3-1: Narazaki Uchida-Iwamasa-Yamamura-Konno Kengo-Inamoto Okazaki-Shunsuke-Tamada Morimoto 3rd half line-up: 4-3-3: Kawaguchi Konno-Iwamasa-Yamamura-Sakai Inamoto-Kagawa-Kengo Nagai-Yano-Tamada 17th minute Substitutions: Konno-Out Uchida-In Tamda-Out Okazaki-In *** I think the first half line-up will be the one to play against Cameroon, but I really hope that Okada won't go with Honda as 1-top, it'll be a disaster, I hope he'll swithch Honda back to midfield, and put either Okazaki or Morimoto as 1-top in place of either Okubo or Matsui. *** Edit: Why Okada didn't play Abe?? Is he injured??
Japan preview by Zonalmarking http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/06/10/japan-world-cup-2010-tactics/ LOLOLOL Kobbo.... Also Okubo is definitely Okada's secret weapon.
I am shocked... Okada's striker could not score against again...? How comes? They average a hat-trick each when they play in the J-League... Ah.... I see... They were playing against Zimbawe... If possible I am even more pessimistic than before, but -who knows?- once the "real games" start, something might click. I still expect at best a tie and two defeats.
So, this is probably the starting 11 for Cameroon. The infamous "Zero-Toppu" ... Who knows? it might work!
0-0 is fcking great. Indeed very very worrying. I honestly thought they would score 2-3 goals. So dissapointing I don't know what to say.
Synergy is when something is greater the sum of all parts. So whats the term for worse? lol It was 0-0 because they put 7 men around secret weapon Yano.
lol I guess the 1st third is probably gonna be or at least closest to the starting 11 on the 14th. Notice how the amount of forwards increases every third. Oh and look at Okazaki in the 2nd third.