9' South Africa scores from corner against the run of play. Defense lost marking on Linda Molthalo Japan now needs to score at least 6 goals in order for not lose FIFA ranking points 12' Seike miss a sitter from 6m box
I have vpn running but this: https://abema.tv/live-event/6a637f45-2e6e-445b-9a81-9fd23ea04ffa doesnt work.
26' good longshot from Japan parried by Swart 27' Moriya nasty foul on RSA player, shes lucky for not to get yellow 34' good combination play upfront, Momiki backheel to Matsukubo whose shot hits the post 38' another good connection between Matsukubo and Momiki, the latter slip during the shot that goes wide 42' good pressing upfront by Matsukubo and Momiki, ball goes to Seike in the center of pk box... and she misses another good opportunity HT JPN 0 - 1 RSA Nadeshiko are lucky that coach Elis has ordered her team to defend the result otherwise I feel Thembi Kgatlana could score another if she would attack Kumagai and Takeshige on racing match. Endo, Chiba and Hayashi looked bad in this very disjointed starting XI. Seike also had bad day as she wasted 3 or 4 good chances.
51' good deep centre from FK by Momiki, Swart parries and collides with Kumagai, foul 56' Momiki longshot goes just over the bar, Momiki OUT, Fujino IN 60' RSA player interception on Kumagai quick pass to Kgatlana and Nadeshiko are lucky she was offside as she would've been 1v1 against Hirao 62' yellow card for Mbane 64' another close call for Kumagai... with VAR she could've conceded PK for a foul in PK box. 67' Swart pulled the muscle, helped by the medics, water-break for all Seike and Hayashi need to be replaced 71' goal line save by RSA defender after Japan corner, Fujino shot, Koga redirected the ball slighty 75' Seike's late to Shimizu pass into the pk box. Swart parries the ball 79' 2nd and 3rd sub for RSA 80' Hayashi center from CK, Kumagai' good header parried by Swart
84' nice acrobatics by Swart saves her team from conceding the corner 85' yellow card for Hasegawa for foul on Swart. (73') Minami IN, Moriya OUT 89' Miyazawa shot hits the bar 6 mins added time after first match Japan gained ~0,1 FIFA ranking points, they stand to lose 12,44 points today 95' two consecutive actions finished with centers into pk box with Koga as the target yield no result 96' no joy from last corner of the game either 99' yellow for RSA player unsporting play, last FK and center to pk box unsucessfull as well. FT JPN 0 - 1 RSA Molthalo 9' congrats RSA, they had some luck but ultimately stick to their guns and managed to get the result.
If JFA sticks to the usual, today was a training match and not an official friendly, so the result wouldn't affect the points.
Well... on the other hand its not that bad as Japan curently have safe margin with 1998 points. I guess 1960 and above should be enough in order to stay in pot 1 for WWC draw.
Well, maybe lack of available stream was fortunate after all. Looks like frustrating game to watch by Nadeshiko fan.
Yes, in fact very frustrating Too many new members. I know Kano tried to see what they can, but I somewhat felt sorry for Matsukubo.
England U20 0-1 Young Nadeshiko By the way, I found the scorer's names of the first game vs Canada at last. Aoki and Fukushima
Another japanese to FSV Mainz squad... https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZcItpjOGZS/?igsh=MTh5NXJncG5oNWhnOA==