Official 2018 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

Well, ok: now I am officially nervous too. We take a goal from CK and we're now 1-0 New Zealand!

 

Well, looks like the girls are in panic: we were very close to concede 0-2.

There is no possession and confused moments. There's plently of time to recover, but I guess we have to get to HT to regroup.

 

Too many mistakes in our passing game, as seen in previous games. But here they are more of a problem, because we are trailing and we tend to become frantic.

 

By the way: my stream is somehow malfunctioning. Does anyone have a different one?

 

1-1 at 30'. Kinoshita, after Yamamoto hadn't managed to finish a first chance.

But actually it should be ruled as an own-goal by an awkward Fern DF.

 

Ok, I am aware that Ikeda said that we don't use to particularly train set-pieces, but it seems to me that our FKs are quite poorly taken. No real chances from them so far, despite Ferns conceding more than one foul next to their box.

 

HT 1-1.

Well, maybe it's also the quality of my streaming letting me down (a lot), but our game-play seems quite confused and we suffered New Zealand's pressing and physicality in this 1st half. It's comforting that we anyway managed to score, but we basically needed the help of their defense.

If we don't want this to become a Ghana 2012 v.2.0., we need a different approach in 2nd half...

I anyway have the feeling that Spain in the semi-final could eat us alive: as we said multiple times in the past week, this team doesn't look well-rounded and seamless like those we were used to in other youth competitions.

 

2nd half started with no changes by any team.

 

I am not a smoker, but I can almost feel the scent of @Manchester Nadeshiko's cigarettes right now.

 

Morita in, Nishino out at about 60'.

The game is quite confused, right now, with many tackles and lost balls by both teams. Very few "clean", fluid, long actions. Japan looks more in control of the game than in 1st half, anyway.