Official 2023 Nadeshiko Japan Thread [R] - なでしこジャパン（英語スレッド）

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Brazil vs. Japan (2nd match) - extended highlights

 

I am confused by the reaction of the Brazilian goalie when Tanaka scored. It almost looked like she did not want to stop the ball but could have. Maybe the Uzbekistan game made me suspicious of some actions.

 

Tomorrow's games:

We League
Mynavi vs Ohmiya 13:00
Jef vs Regina 13:00
Nagano vs Inac 14:00
Cerezo vs Nojima 14:00

 

Kubota Mao was called for U19 in addition.

 

Saori Takarada will join Leicester City from 1st January.

 

Welcome to the Club, Saori! 👋 🇯🇵

We are delighted to announce the signing of Saori Takarada ✍️

— LCFC Women (@LCFC_Women) December 8, 2023

 

Thank you, that works.....

 

Overall I'm quite worried about last Momoko TANAKA's performances with NT and Beleza. She did 2 good saves against Brazil but her hesitations could have cost more for the team.

 

Don't worry, she is ok = )

 

Today's result:

We League
Jef (Kamogawa) 1-1 Regina (Ueno)
Mynavi (Ishizaka) 1-2 Ohmiya (Sakaguchi, Funaki)
Nagano (Dangda) 1-1 Inac (Tanaka)
Cerezo (Wakisaka, Koyama, Yakata) 3-3 Nojima (Minamino, Hamada, Sasai)

 

Tomorrow's games:

We League
Albi vs Urawa 13:00
Beleza vs Chifure 14:00

Empress's Cup 4th round
Fujieda Junshin vs Ehime 10:30
Setagaya vs Nippatsu 11:00
Iga vs Nittaidai 13:30
Viama vs Harima 14:00

 

I watched the first-half of this game and it was a lot of fun. Mai Watanabe has been playing well for Hiroshima. Kamogawa made the mistake for the first goal, so it was good she was able to make amends.

Chihiro Yamaguchi played really well in the first-half. I am starting to think she should be a left-back or even play as a defensive midfielder. Her defensive work was again very good.

I also think that Erina Yamane is turning into a good commentator. I like her analysis of the games she comentates.

It took Nojima 500 minutes this season to finally score their first goal. It really looked quite bad at the end of the first-half with Nojima down by three goals, so I am very happy they were able to come back.

Cerezo looked like they may have worked too hard in the first-half because they slowed down a lot late in the game. They also perhaps looked a bit too relaxed at the start of the second-half possibly thinking that the game was over. I mean I understand the feeling because Nojima are bad, but still you have to play out the game.

Up until the first goal the match was pretty even with Cerezo maybe edging it, but then some careless play from Kawashima right in front of goal led to an easy put away for Wakisaka. As a fan of Nojima it was so frustrating, because once the goal went in Cerezo just picked up the pace and started playing some nice football.

In the second-half Nojima started playing much more direct, which kind of took Wakisaka out of the game in midfield; she was excellent again today. I think Nojima might want to try three at the back, because they really do have trouble getting numbers forward in attack.

But I am just glad they were able to get a point today.

 

A question:
I can find lists of players playing abroad for virtually all nations when it comes to male players, e.g. https://us.soccerway.com/players/players_abroad/japan/, but I haven't been able to find similar lists of female players playing abroad. Is there a comprehensive list of japanese female players playing in foreign countries?

 

Yui Hasegawa played whole match for Man City against Aston Villa.

 

There is not much information unfortunately even in Japanese regarding Japanese players playing overseas. Most of the lists I found only look at players who have played for Nadeshiko Japan.

At the moment there are Japanese women who have not played for Nadeshiko Japan playing in Argentina, South Korea, Taiwan, Spain and Australia. There are probably some women playing in Portugal and Brazil as well.

The penalty for Ohmiya's first goal was incredibly soft. Ohmiya are having a bit of luck this season.

 

Today's result:

We League
Albi (Miura, Yanagisawa) 2-0 Urawa
Beleza 0-0 Chifure

Empress's Cup 4th round
Fujieda Junshin (Uemoto) 1-3 Ehime (OG, Tago, Imakura)
Setagaya (Ohtake, Mitsumoto, Mochizuki, Shinbori 2) 5-1 Nippatsu (GonNo)
Iga (Nishikawa) 1-1 (PK 2-4) Nittaidai (Lee)
Viama (Kakazu, Fukumaru, et Nagatomi) 3-3 (PK 4-5) Harima (Yamagishi, Uchida, et Kamei)

 

Me and @Manchester Nadeshiko atm

 

Urawa looked pretty uninspired today. Their midfield is absolutely stacked and yet they barely troubled the Niigata goal and Niigata held their own in midfield. Urawa also started with only one up top (Shimada) and left Sugasawa and Seike on the bench at the start of the match.

I sometimes think that Urawa believe they can just turn up and beat teams without having to actually play with a system. To be honest it usually works because they have so many good players, but Niigata are pretty well organised this year and a quite difficult to break down.

I would like to see more Hanon Nishio for Urawa, but if they are only going to play one up front then she is not going to get many opportunities.

From what I have seen of Beleza so far this season they have looked very good. Probably the best team in the competition. But today they ran into an Elfen team that played a very deep back five which had no interest in pressing high up the pitch.

Beleza really did not know what to do with such a defensive set-up and did not really trouble the Elfen goal. Beleza really like it when teams press them high up the pitch, because they are so good at keeping the ball and playing around the high-press, but I think against some of the weaker teams Beleza are going to face a lot more walls of five.

I thought Miki Sakuma had a very good game on the right for Elfen and of course Ayuka Onuma continues to impress in central defence.

Miyagawa for Beleza could have been sent off in the first-half if there was VAR, yet somehow she did not even get a yellow. She basically just kicked Sonoda's leg when she was about to break on goal.

 

Honoka Hayashi played 71 minutes, while Riko Ueki the whole match for Westham against Everton.