
Japan Shock Germany and Canada Impress
Tifo Football Podcast
Japan and Germany Playing Different Ways in the Second Half
In the second half, Japan did something different to what they did in the first half. They played a very deep compact 442 which created no-to-space in behind for players like Kubo or Ito or Kamada or Mida to attack on the counter. But when Ilki Gundewen was taken off it changed everything - and he was doing his best player. And then that meant that Japan were playing with a 3, 3, 3... but by the end of it they had a quite attacking team too. The guy who scored, whose name has escaped me, up front.
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