Official 2012 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - part I

Ok, now working for me too... someone will tell me how exactly all this happened...

 

It's not over, now 2-1, Nagasato heads in. 26 minutes gone.

 

That diving header was sick.

 

what a great goal from Yuki, great header, come on nadeshiko, you can

 

Situation reminds me of Algarve final vs Gerany... They were also 0-2 early, but they maintened composure and were back in the game: come on Nadeshiko Japan!!!!

And what a great goal by Yuki indeed!

 

I'm really worried about Sawa's condition.
Kaihori is superb.
This is where she shines.

 

I lost half the first half, but, judging from what I saw, it seems to me that there is a lot of sloppiness in passes today, by everyone, Sawa included... (usual Ohno, Kinga, etc.)

I hope they're gonna fight to tie the score in second half, but if mistakes are so frequent, counterattack from USA for 3-1 seems more likely...

Hope they'll show USA goals now, so i'll see what happened by myself.

 

agree with you in 2 things specially about Sawa, she is not very good, I know is the captain and best player of history, but maybe she musn't play, without her japan made great games and by the way, I saw bad or one of the US goals was an OG from Sawa?

 

I am the only one hearing Anime tunes and Ricky Martin songs played over the feed, at the moment?

 

video-feed crashed for me?

 

Kozue and Saki enter the pitch replacing Sawa and Ohno, lol, agressive substitutions

 

Interesting: at about 12' Kumagai basically is in for Sawa, so in a MF role like she plays in Frankfurt.

Also Ando for Ohno.

Edit: in fact Kumagai plays as CB as always: logically is Utsugi moved at MF.

 

Morgan Goal, 1-3, now mumf come on here to say is ayumi's fault, with this defense is impossible to win vs. good teams like US, we need Iwashimizu recovered soon

 

whoops, 3-1

You don't give Morgan 2 chances one after the other and hope she misses both...

 

maruyama replaces kawasumi (fine to see karina again, I missed her in NT )

and what a shoot from sakaguchi, went out for mm

 

takase replaces utsugi that left the pitch injured, hope wouldn't be too hard

 

What a carelss tackle by Lloyd... I hope Utsugi is not seriously hurt!

 

I think, it's her only chance (Maruyama's) to convince Sasaki for a spot at Olympic today.

 

yano out and enter asuna tanaka, I don't see Yano as a good replacement for NT but is the only one can do that, I don't like Utsugi as a DF, her place in the field for me is MF like she is playing now

 

lol, this keeper kicks it straight out of bounds every time.

 

is this some kind of new generation match where no yellow card is given ?

 

4-1 Japan gave up defending. Wambach header from like 2 inches out.

 

wamback goal after another mistake of the nadeshiko backline, 1-4, I'm very worried about that problem, specially if Azusa don't recover soon, well, game finish, 1-4

 

First game lost in a year, so not bad as for the world champions. Better now than next month I guess

 

Ah! Disappointing! To my eyes they seemed really tired from the get go. They weren't "stuck in" as they say.