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The starting lineup for the U-21 Japan national team has been announced ahead of the men’s football final at the 20th Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya), where they’ll face the U-23 South Korea team. Ten changes have been made from the semifinal win over Uzbekistan — which Japan won on penalties — with key players Tomoto Ozeki, Rio Ichihara, and Yuki Yokoyama all returning to the starting XI. On 5ch’s Geisports Sokuho+ (Entertainment & Sports Breaking News) thread, fans traded worries about pitch conditions after the semifinal went to penalties, pointed out that South Korea has won every Japan-Korea final at this year’s Games so far, and compared the track records of various past coaches.
The starting lineup for the U-21 Japan national football team ahead of the men’s football final against U-23 South Korea at the 20th Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya) has been announced.
Ten players have been changed from the semifinal against Uzbekistan, which Japan won on penalties. Key players Tomoto Ozeki, Rio Ichihara, and Yuki Yokoyama are back in the starting XI.
The U-21 Japan starting lineup is as follows.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
If it's bad, we're guaranteed to lose.
The China vs. Uzbekistan third-place match went to penalties too,
so even though I haven't seen it, the pitch must be pretty torn up by now.
He's been withdrawn from the squad
Different things — this year's (U-21) Asian Cup, Japan fielded this same generation and won it.
Araki's the most insane one by far
and he's still only 18
Something like 'guaranteed to be Yokozuna in the near future'? (continuing the sumo-rank joke — Yokozuna is sumo's top rank)
Kitanoumi became Yokozuna at 21 years and 2 months old.
None of the real key players are even in it.
Japan builds its squads around the Olympic cycle.
Korea missed out on the last Olympics doing it this way, so from Japan's side, that's not really their problem.
'ball-kicking' (soccer) always seems to lose to Korea.
Well, soccer did beat Venezuela.
'Asia' meaning (Korea and Taiwan).
Gon: 'Now, about that move by Nwadike just now—'
Just call him Theo!
Korea has won every single Japan-vs-Korea final.
That's because Korea's fielding their full-strength squad — exemption from military service is on the line for them.
Big Bro Korea has crushed Ecuador and Uruguay, you know.
Uruguay 4-1 Korea.
Yeah, a real 'crushing win' alright (sarcasm).
Qatar World Cup, Group H:
1st: Portugal
2nd: Big Bro Korea
3rd: Uruguay
4th: Ghana
Their head-to-head match was a scoreless draw though.
This guy's gonna wet himself if he finds out the recent senior-team head-to-head record.
'Baseball' ('yakyu,' a mocking meme spelling) is in trouble too, you know.
If they win with this, give him the senior national team job.
U-23 Asian Cup:
Moriyasu — eliminated
Moriyasu — eliminated
Oiwa — champion
Oiwa — champion
Moriyasu has zero Asian titles as a national coach, whether at youth level or with the senior team.
Oiwa's actually got the better results.
Though they lost this time around —
but that was pros versus amateurs, mind you.
Korean pros are weaker than Japan's corporate-league amateurs, so if Korea fielded their all-stars, that result makes sense.
in Japan, of all places — the baseball nation?
Soccer's just got deep-pocketed sponsors.
That's really all there is to it.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Japan is competing at the Asian Games with a squad built mainly around its Olympic-generation players, treating it as part of its team-building effort for the Olympics — a squad that has already won this year’s U-21 Asian Cup. South Korea, meanwhile, tends to field a near-full-strength squad at the top of the age limit for this tournament, since a military-service exemption is on the line, so the two countries bring different motivations to the same event. The thread raised the point that ‘Korea has won every Japan-Korea final at this Asian Games so far,’ but that’s specific to this tournament and should be read separately from the two countries’ overall head-to-head record at the youth level. Comparisons of the coaches’ track records also came up, but it’s worth noting that results in age-restricted tournaments and results at the actual Olympics are judged on different scales.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “[Soccer] Asian Games Final: U-21 Japan Announces Starting Lineup for Korea Match! 10 Changes from the Semifinal, Ozeki and Yokoyama in the XI [TBS].”
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