Match 10: Japan v. Cameroon :: GAME THREAD [R]

1 - how da hell is kawashima the starting gk for japan ?!?!?! narazaki and specially kawaguchi have far more experience and skill than him ....

2 - why isnt nakamura playing ? injured ?

3 - isnt hasabe abit young to be given the captain badge ?

sorry isnt much following japan latley so i hope someone could enlighten me , ty

 

Unless he picked up an injury, Kameni on the bench seems to be a huge surprise according to all the pre-tournament talk of how he is the best African keeper.


Japan (4-1-4-1):

-------------Kawashima-------------

Nagatomo--Nakazawa--Tulio--Komano

----------------Abe----------------

Matsui----Honda----Hasebe----Endo

---------------Okubo---------------


Cameroon (4-3-3):

--------------Souleymanou--------------

Mbia---Nkoulou---Bassong---Assou Ekotto

---Matip--------Makoun--------Eyong---

----Eto'o----Webo----Choupo-Moting----

 

Two very nice sounding anthems. Okay Eto'o take care of business. We need a win today!

 

c'mon samurais win the game for Asia!

 

Japan's gonna get eaten alive.

 

Wow: I'd forgotten that Japan had never one a World Cup match off their home soil.

Doesn't look good for them today, either.

 

Finally saw something when Eto'o came back and moved the ball forward himself.

 

07' 0-0 Both teams connect passes pretty well. Midfield wins ball, backpass to settle, look downfield, pass forward speculatively, lose ball. Repeat.

08' 0-0 Cameroon (Eto'o?) runs up the right, threads a pass through box top right into the stride of #15 Pierre Webo, carries to endline, crosses behind #13 Maxim Choupo-Moting at 4m right post, and Japan clears.

 

These days, more like sararimen

 

As a neutral, I'd really like to see Japan get the first goal.

And I'd hate to see this one scoreless deep into the second half.

 

Well, thanks to the availability of video and digital analysis, we're seeing the most tactical world cup since 1982. Which means a lot of low-scoring games.

Cameroon seems naive in the marking. I've counted at least three occasions when the Japanese appear behind the man that is supposed to be marking them.

 

It's their ninja powers.

 

{11,14}' 0-0 Twice now, Japan has brought the ball up to Cameroon's 1/3, about 40m wide right. Both times, Cameroon has pulled back an impressive gaggle of 8-9 yellow shirts in 2 lines distributed roughly evenly across their box top. In contrast, Japan's offensive formation both times was pooched way right: 4 blue shirts in the right 1/2 above box top, none on the left. It looks weird -- Japan has no far-post threat. Is that part of their system?

 

Gilmoy, what means sararimen?

 

Wow that was some really shaky goalkeeping

 

Wow. Cameroon's goalie should at least take that Japanese forward to dinner and a movie before getting to third base.

 

20' 0-0 Japan gets another 40m wide right ball, and whoever gets it there looks like he's been studying the Phillip Lahm highlight video -- he uses arm gestures to wave a front-runner on down the center channel, and tries to drop the 30m curling cross to the 6-top center. But Cameroon's defenders have studied that video, too

 

I don't mind low scoring or no scoring games.

Now, dull, uncreative play and cynical defending (combined with melodramatic striker-flopping)... screw that.

 

Hooray! Derek Rae just called it the "Mexican Wave."

thank God they get credit for inventing that.

 

African teams will go nowhere playing like this with no discipline. Too many errors

 

Literally "salaryman", absorbed phonetically into modern Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarariman

 

Wow that was a kinda,... why were they holding each other's heads like that?