Post-match: PATHETIC ! Keisuke Honda is Japans top World Cup goal scorer with 3 goals

And Zac wastes a spot bringing Okubo, the Traffic Cone 2.0 (Hosogai could be useful against Ivory Coast)

 

Say whatever you want but not traffic cone, Okubo was the most dynamic player of the tournament ...

 

if Okubo had put in those 2 big chances he would have been by far the best player of Japan's campaign (and we may have been talking about R16 progression).

 

That's the difference between some random guy and Messi. Messi scores and random guy thinks 'If I had scored that... I'm not that bad after all...'

Seriously - Okubo himself would get a nice laugh if somebody had told him such things

 

Don't think he would have laughed and he's more than capable of putting those two away, at least usually. He's just not the big time World Cup player (and if included in the list, he should have been called up way before that ...)

 

yup you're right. Okubo is not Messi.

 

Between the FWs of Japan in this WC Okubo is probably the one who performed in line with the expectations the fans had on him while Osako and Okazaki were totally deprecable for their inconsistency on the pitch.
The poor Kakitani simply didn't play.

Then looking the whole situation Okubo was not the worst of the japanese strikers but probably he's an easy scapegoat cuz he's old and a surprisingly Zac sudden choice (genius choice if he would score, shitty if not as had happen).