Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] hehe a game of irony. As far as I'm concerned you're all Japanese here so no irony please Anyway. Argentina game will be a fascinating one regardless of who plays on their side. It won't be a full strength Argentina, but still, I think this will stretch us backwards and forwards several times over. A great learning process, I hope.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] I'm quite patriotic about Australia, I love where I live, Its the golden country, we have a good healthcare system, I live in one of the best cities in the world. I support them in other sports (because we rock!), but I honestly don't have any personal attachment for the football team, the Socceroos were not exposed to me enough, I watched other countries play and I had more attachment to them. I actually really want to support the Socceroos and Olyroos and I have tried, but there are not enough feelings there, I do have a soft spot for them but thats strong enough. So when it comes to football, I'm more Japanese and German than Australian.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] Incredible Japan U23 0 - 0 Argentina U23 plus Riquelme, Aguero, Mascherano at half time. The written commentary suggests very equal game and very similar amount of chances
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] Nothing incredible. Only one half has been played so far. Both teams had some dangerous chances on free kicks. Other than that Argentina is controlling the ball as expected.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] True but read the lineups and I'd expect 2-0 by now.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] in japanese and google translate's english version not much in english but you get the jist
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] I've been watching a little by http://www.justin.tv/brujita_veron2 fwiw
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] Was it class or scrappy rubbish? or a good counter.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] I found the channel too late to see the goal, but the game looks very scrappy in general -- it's raining pretty decently.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like the refs have called the game at like 82m (not exact) due to weather -- the players, except Riquelme whose arguing with some officials, have all evacuated the field. I'm guessing lightning was spotted closeby.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] wow is this live. It looks so up to date with the commentary. Do many games of Japan or j.league show on this site?
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] Or maybe it's just a delay... I don't speak Spanish =P but the Japanese are only getting louder, so maybe it's not over. <shrug>
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] If you search long enough, you can find just about anything on justin.tv -- the problem, however, is that it's all ran by individuals with their own channel. So it's kind of trial and error finding what you want, especially with stuff like this. =)
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] Wow this could be the best thing to keep in touch with japanese soccer for me since I stumbled on Bigsoccer.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] I watch the game on TVU player. soccer games are usually on TBS or asahi.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] When the players left the field, the game was only suspended, so Riquelme was probably arguing that they should just end it, which eventually did happen. As I feared, when Japan started to attack they gave Argentina space and got scored on. They should have just fouled to break up the play, but it was a nice turn and shot in wet conditions. Keisuke Honda hit the post earlier on.
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] highlights http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/tafc/ i watched the whole game on tv (the 84 minutes it had :/), here are some of my thoughts. i thought japan played very well, especially considering it was against argentina. although argentina looked more confident in passing and moving the ball, japan had many chances too. many of our best chances came from free kicks (won by uchida who was against japan's best player in the first half but was defended well by monson? in the second half) although honda hit the cross bar with a great curling shot. honda played well after disappointing a bit in the australia game. i think morishige looked better than yoshida, kajiyama looked good too, but not sure about yasuda vs nagatomo. it was a shame that the game was cancelled.. although i didnt expect much from sorimachi's team, this gives me some good hope for the olympics!
Re: Official Olympic (U23) Japanese NT Thread [R] japan held their own against a world-class side. a good performance i think. this will give them confidence heading into the first game. i think sorimachi japan might just pull off a bit of a surprise! for those not in japan, oinarisan has uploaded some highlights here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bwMen7R-A