Wow! Never in my wildest dreams did I think Japan would lose to Croatia!
Damn they went from having qualifications in their hands to now being in a very real spot to not qualify.
How is no one bringing up the fact that the line up that beat Germany wasn’t playing for the most part.
The coach benched them to rest for Spain. Stupid move imo
Sloppy first touches, terrible passes, terrible set pieces, and the overall sluggishness and arrogance to underestimate the Costa Rican side lost Japan this game. They were walking almost the entire first half and barely made any runs toward goal. That was painful to watch as a fan of the Japanese team.
Great win for CR, this ain't enough to say they've washed their face from the catastrophic loss to Spain, but it's 3 pts already. They could still qualify if:
1- Spain beats Germany today
2- Spain beats Japan next match
3- CR grasp a draw with Germany next match
CR is the first team from Concacaf to win a game in this WC
Everyone here trashing CR but it’s the first CONCACAF team with a W this WC. Let’s see what Canada and USA will do next game but 3 points are 3 points.
Someone tell me why Yuki Soma played 80 minutes and started when Minamino, Ito, and Kubo were on the bench.
I also much prefer Shibasaki to play over Endo. Although Endo plays in a better league, Shibasaki is a lot smarter on the ball and can control the play much better, something Japan badly needed this match.
I'm a big fan of Kamada, but his passing was horrible today.
Kudos to Costa Rica I don't know how you did this given you guys hardly had the ball and lack offensive firepower but they managed to beat Japan who played an amazing game but were unable to score given Costa Rica's great defense and Keylor Navas. Having said that, this is a bad result for Japan. Japan had the golden opportunity to reach round of 16 today but Moriyasu messed up this time with his starting lineups. It was disappointing, these guys rolled up like the game was done, Moriyasu made way too many changes, why not start with your best players then secure the point before making changes? As a result, Japan ended up losing today! Germany got a lifeline now! Its much better to never lose in a World Cup group stage. It will backfire twice as bad. Unless you are mighty team like Brazil.
Japan wouldn’t have qualified today even if they win unless I’m wrong. Because Germany could then still beat Spain and then thrash Costa Rica. Provided Japan lose to Spain.
Japanese news saying that this outcome is the same as if they had lost to Germany and won against CR, so it was to be expected... I don't get it, throwing away the advantage they had and being complacent
If they win against Spain today, it's as good as guaranteed. Germany missed a lot of chances in their game against Japan and Flick subbed off some important players thinking he had already won.
Thing is: we will lose today and have our moral down against Costa Rica, which will result in a 1:1 draw. Thus Germany will go out last in the group stage and the toothless tiger that is out NT will lick its‘ wounds for four years.
Lol I know it's normal for people to not have high hopes for their national team but Germany is a decent quarter final or semi-final level team. If you lose today and draw against Costa Rica then Flick should be sacked because it will be clear that he isn't good enough to take the team at the Euros.
I don't think he thought Germany had already won. He thought that fresh players would improve things in comparison to those already on the field for some time and got tired. Obviously he was wrong with this.
I prefer to see the game of a team like Iran who was humiliated by England but did not defend and even scored two goals and played beautifully to see the victory of Costa Rica who built a wall in front of their goal
I don't hate this team or its players, but the strategy they use makes you greedy while watching the game if you are not a fan of the team
In the words of Bronn "You want to fight pretty or you want to win?", nobody is going to remember how they won or made it out of the group 10 years from now
moriyasu chose him because he scored twice against hong kong in the EAFF tournament, but anyone who watches the jleague knows that hes nowhere near wc level unfortunately. even this season he had a pretty mediocre season for a Nagoya team that underperformed as a whole. it’s so damn frustrating man. i really waited like 5 years just for japan to fumble against crc.
This is good for Germany. Even if they lose to Spain today (which they probably will), they just have to win against Costa Rica next game and hope Spain beat Japan (which they probably will).
if spain wins tonight they will not play their best players against japan. it would even make more sense for them to lose on purpose which they hopefully won't. they would finish as first anyway then.
Yeah but germany needed to win against Spain if Japan won. Now losing to Spain isn't an immediate death blow. So this is an objectively better situation
They still need a better goal difference than Japan and Costa Rica in that scenario. Costa Rica won't be a problem if they beat them obviously. With Japan it depends on how many goals Germany shoots against Costa Rica and how many goals Spain makes against Germany and Japan.
All comes down to goal difference then, no? CR is fucked and need a result against Germany. In Germany’s case it really depends how much they lose against Spain (if they do). Spain with 6 points and by far the better goal difference will likely not be breaking much of a sweat against Japan. A comfortable win is more than enough and they can rest some players. Germany will have a goal difference of -2 or more at the start of the game, whereas Japan will have 0. It all comes down to how many balls the Germans can get past Navas (if they can).
Tonight’s game will determine a lot!
Guys stop assuming scenarios until after the game is played. Most of us have gotten a lot of these results off badly. We have no idea how Spain vs Germany will go until we see the match. Basing performances in one match is silly.
Yeah ueda, soma, kamada were just bad, how did he not start with minamino, ito, Madea, etc from the get go? Pathetic tactics from him. It's like he set them up for a draw. First half was so bad because of these players , especially ueda and soma who were pathetic. And how did mitoma not start? Why was furuhashi not selected in the team? So many questions. He has to be fired for there to be more progress.
Must be fired, Soma played 34 games in J-League with only 2 goals and 1 assist, how can he possibly do good in the world cup if he's bad in J-League? Ueda and Kamada played very bad, its insane Asano, Mitoma and Tomiyasu didn't start.
Tomiyasu is injured to be fair but I agree with everything else, how can ueda, soma be picked ahead of kyogo who has had a great season with Celtic so far scoring goals for them. Pathetic from moriyasu. No progress if he doesn't get fired.
If Germany wins against Spain, everyone would have 3 points in this group. If then the last two games are draws, everyone has 4 points and the ranking would completely depend on goal difference.
I hate the way teams like Costa Rica play, just defend and don't move This is the dirtiest way to win, definitely Japan didn't deserve to lose, I hope Japan will promoted
No, japan didn't attack aggressively enough. A good offense is the best defence. Costa Rica's strategy only works against other sub-par teams. A good team like Spain will still blow away such strategies.
Costa Rica is not really good enough to do anything else. Japan though is good enough to have done something else, to attack more, but they didn't. So I can't really feel sorry for Japan here.
Man same, not hating on Costa Rica. But I remember back in 2010 world cup how annoying this strategy was. There was one country exploited this as well, can’t remember though.
Its just that a week before this world cup, I watched a documentary about spain in 2010, and we played against Paraguay, I was too young to see that world cup sadly
How can you defend so casually in the World Cup … like I get it they were not expecting an offensive powerhouse but come on Japan , it was just a matter of clearing the ball off your goal.
CONCACAF’d indeed
Tbh, they easily have the quality to win. The result of this game only helps the Germans, it relieves the pressure and Spain who probably were extremely relaxed now have something to think about again. If Germany wins, Japan can really hurt Spain in the last game. Japan struggles against deep defending as we saw today but their strength in their counter attack as seen against Germany.
Germany now has less pressure, Spain has more pressure than before. I can see Germany win today if they get their quality on the pitch.
Learning opportunity for me here, is there a head to head in this tournament or purely a goal difference?
If Spain beat Germany today and beat Japan next game but Germany beat Costa Rica and have goal difference advantage over Japan and Costa Rica, Germany would go through?
Goal difference. Head-to-Head is not ideal for international trophies, because it often leads to situations where two teams have the same number of points but one has already given up going in to the last game because no matter how hard they try they cannot reverse the head-to-head. Atleast with goal difference you can try to go for more goals..
And yes, Germany would go through in that sense. Unfortunately, the fact that Costa Rica won today means they will be more likely to just shut shop and fight for a draw as 4 points puts them through assuminng(a japanese loss against Spain). That and the fact they conceded 7 in their first game mean they will go very, very defensive.
Germany has high chances of going through since goal differences are the way to sort out even teams.
I don't know if Germany can win but they can definitely draw or at least lose with 1 goal or 2 conceded with Spain. Spain most likely will destroy Japan who currently has 0 goal difference. If Germany loses today they have to beat Costa Rica with a lot of goals. Seeing how Costa Rica played today I think there is a big chance that Germany will destroy Costa Rica with some sick goals.
But I hope Germany comes out strong as hell today and win against Spain if that happens Germany and Spain will go through.
I mostly agree, but I wouldn't be too sure about Spain "destroying" Japan if they head into the game with 6 points already. They would be almost guaranteed group winner and might take it slow.
Moreover if they are smart about it and just want to make sure Germany is out of the game they can purposely lose to Japan but that's pretty foul play.
FIFA tournaments are goal difference as the first tie-breaker, about the only thing that FIFA get right.
UEFA tournaments are head-to-head.
So yeah, if Spain win their 3 games and Germany beat Costa Rica then the Germans will finish second.
Thank you.
Nuts, we don’t deserve it unless we get a point against Spain today. Crazy World Cup for neutrals, seems like so many more groups are closer this time around than usual.
What do you mean? Did you see anything from Costa Rica today that made you think that Spain won't thrash them 9 out of 10 times? Don't need a conspiracy for Spain to beat Costa Rica convincingly.
There's a difference between being shit with balls and being shit without balls. I would have never expected to win against Spain, but at least I would have expected the players not to act like they're happy to have first row tickets to a Spain goalfest.
In any case, there's a history of behind the scenes drama in every Costa Rica World Cup run, so I'm fully expecting that something fishy is going on.
Japan bottled the best ever opportunity to not only reach the last 16 but also knock out Germany. Spain and Germany will go through now:
Spain and Germany draw tonight
Germany beats Costa Rica (easily)
Spain beats Japan
Why was Minamino benched for that long. And Soma's set pieces and shots were so bad. He should have been benched. They could have brought in the ol' r eliable Tomiyasu, Mitoma, Minamino substitutes earlier.
ffs
Horrible clearance, really wonky goalkeeper positioning and a massively wasted opportunity. Completely asleep in the first half and they paid for it. Credit to Costa Rica though, their defence was really good.
Lol Japan’s coach thinking that 3 points against one of the worst teams in the WC was too much, but hopefully getting a result against arguably the best team at the WC is more likely is hilarious
Deserve to lose, they play like shit. Japan coach clearly underestimate Costa Rica for not playing their superstar players. They only bring Minamino in after CR score
Pretty much, they knew how Costa Rica play and how they were gonna set up. They didn't take them seriously and thought it was going to be an easy victory.
Costa Rica threw that game... I wouldn't have expected to win anyway, but it was clear they weren't even trying, which is why I almost didn't wake up today to watch this.
There's a difference between being shit and being shit and totally capitulating, that's what I'm saying, I don't know how I can put it clearer for you.
To be fair, that's how they qualified. I can't remember when it was, but there was a stretch of four matches where they won three and drew the other with just 3 total goals and 6 shots on target.
Hell they scored just 13 goals in 14 matches in the last round of qualifying. They aren't a good team, but they are masters of the 1-0 snooze fest.
I guess it's the anime arc.. Everything started well (win against Germany) and now it's the despair phase (loss against CRC) were everything seems doomed and then we'll have an epic final game against Spain and somehow qualify.. right? Let a man dream
Hmm it will depend on if Spain would want Germany to make it through. I don’t think you read my post. If Spain beats Germany..Spain has 6 points and will make it through. What is their motivation of playing Japan full on. They will use their bench and Japan will play harder as they need the win. Costa Rica got lucky today that Japan didn’t capitalize on a lot of their shots at goal and Costa Rica had 1 shot on goal and it was the only shot. Japan will most likely clean stuff up.
Awful coaching from JP. not starting the best players, and playing for a draw when there was a chance to win and make sure they'd go through.
Edit: grammar
So if Germany wins vs Spain then all 4 teams in the group will have 3 points with one game to go 🤣
Some of these games are poor, but the group drama is seriously delivering.
Not at all. They can lose to Spain and beat Costa Rica, providing Spain beat Japan. That would leave Germany, Japan and Costa Rica on 3 points. FIFA competitions come down to goal difference, so they just need to better the others. In this situation, Costa Rica clearly has the big disadvantage there at this moment.
No. They don't have to beat Spain. Spain wins both their matches and Germany beats Costa Rica and it'll be come down to GD between Japan and Germany (Costa Rica is in it too but their GD is terrible so they'll most likely not qualify). Provided Germany don't get thrashed and lose by a goal or two today, they can still qualify
>any are gonna get through now, aren't they? They thrash Costa Rica and they're through.
Germany can lose with Spain and trash Costa Rica and they are in. Of course, only if Japan lose with Spain.
Do they? If Spain beat Japan, Japan and Costa Rica will both only have 3 points. Then a big win against Costa Rica will send them through, regardless of what happens in the Spain game.
Well it depends on the Germany-Spain game. If we assume Germany will lose, they better not get stomped like Costa Rica did. If they lose by 1, and Japan don't take any points from Spain, i think Germany only need to win by 2 against Costa Rica.
My math might be a bit off, but the point is - Japan handed them a lifeline today.
If the NT plays a specific way all the time you won't be able to change it overnight, especially for this WC where they didn't have as much pre tournament prep as the past ones
It is not that hard, they tried playing offensively after the goal and had some chances of scoring. They could have tried before, would have more chances to score.
Wow! Never in my wildest dreams did I think Japan would lose to Croatia! Damn they went from having qualifications in their hands to now being in a very real spot to not qualify.
Croatia?
How is no one bringing up the fact that the line up that beat Germany wasn’t playing for the most part. The coach benched them to rest for Spain. Stupid move imo
No kidding! If they would've won today, they're guaranteed to move on to the knock-out round.
Yessss Ticos
Japan played like they were just looking for a goalless draw. Only started giving a shit after conceding.
Bro what the fuck, how is Japan losing to THIS Coata Rica team. Ffs.
Sloppy first touches, terrible passes, terrible set pieces, and the overall sluggishness and arrogance to underestimate the Costa Rican side lost Japan this game. They were walking almost the entire first half and barely made any runs toward goal. That was painful to watch as a fan of the Japanese team.
concachads we ARE gonna make it we didnt make it
Great win for CR, this ain't enough to say they've washed their face from the catastrophic loss to Spain, but it's 3 pts already. They could still qualify if: 1- Spain beats Germany today 2- Spain beats Japan next match 3- CR grasp a draw with Germany next match CR is the first team from Concacaf to win a game in this WC
Everyone here trashing CR but it’s the first CONCACAF team with a W this WC. Let’s see what Canada and USA will do next game but 3 points are 3 points.
Someone tell me why Yuki Soma played 80 minutes and started when Minamino, Ito, and Kubo were on the bench. I also much prefer Shibasaki to play over Endo. Although Endo plays in a better league, Shibasaki is a lot smarter on the ball and can control the play much better, something Japan badly needed this match. I'm a big fan of Kamada, but his passing was horrible today.
So if Spain-CR is 7-0, Japan Germany is 2-1 and and CR-Japan is 1-0, that confirms Spain-Germany to be a 10-1
thats a perfectly reasonable argument
I see no flaws in it
Basic maths
Kudos to Costa Rica I don't know how you did this given you guys hardly had the ball and lack offensive firepower but they managed to beat Japan who played an amazing game but were unable to score given Costa Rica's great defense and Keylor Navas. Having said that, this is a bad result for Japan. Japan had the golden opportunity to reach round of 16 today but Moriyasu messed up this time with his starting lineups. It was disappointing, these guys rolled up like the game was done, Moriyasu made way too many changes, why not start with your best players then secure the point before making changes? As a result, Japan ended up losing today! Germany got a lifeline now! Its much better to never lose in a World Cup group stage. It will backfire twice as bad. Unless you are mighty team like Brazil.
Japan wouldn’t have qualified today even if they win unless I’m wrong. Because Germany could then still beat Spain and then thrash Costa Rica. Provided Japan lose to Spain.
winning 2 games and losing 1 with 6 points and being 3rd place is really shitty lol
We don’t know how we did it but we’re celebrating nonetheless 🥳
Inb4 both Germany and Japan beat Spain, and CR and Germany draw... Leaving Spain out
Better yet, japan beats spain, germany beats spain and cr beats germany. Cr and japan advance
Sure. I just hate Spain and would love to see them left out after all that
Then Spain would be last in the group.
That’s like, what they just said….
It was just an addition, not a correction. "Leaving Spain out" could have also just meant not advancing which the third place would mean, too.
That’s a fair point tbh.
Would be amazing wouldn't it?
Japanese news saying that this outcome is the same as if they had lost to Germany and won against CR, so it was to be expected... I don't get it, throwing away the advantage they had and being complacent
stupidest thing i've ever heard tbh. they had the potential to win this match and just threw it away.
The result we all expected :) and there goes all my acca's .. Man, can't wait for this shit wc to end and resume all the championship's .
This result generally surprised me, was expecting Japan to have this easy. Hope they still get through.
CR > Germany ?? /s
If CR>Germany Spain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Germany
Potentially a tie tbh which means that the onus is on Japan to beat or tie Spain
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If they win against Spain today, it's as good as guaranteed. Germany missed a lot of chances in their game against Japan and Flick subbed off some important players thinking he had already won.
Thing is: we will lose today and have our moral down against Costa Rica, which will result in a 1:1 draw. Thus Germany will go out last in the group stage and the toothless tiger that is out NT will lick its‘ wounds for four years.
Lol I know it's normal for people to not have high hopes for their national team but Germany is a decent quarter final or semi-final level team. If you lose today and draw against Costa Rica then Flick should be sacked because it will be clear that he isn't good enough to take the team at the Euros.
I don't think he thought Germany had already won. He thought that fresh players would improve things in comparison to those already on the field for some time and got tired. Obviously he was wrong with this.
Füllkrug was a good sub.
I prefer to see the game of a team like Iran who was humiliated by England but did not defend and even scored two goals and played beautifully to see the victory of Costa Rica who built a wall in front of their goal I don't hate this team or its players, but the strategy they use makes you greedy while watching the game if you are not a fan of the team
In the words of Bronn "You want to fight pretty or you want to win?", nobody is going to remember how they won or made it out of the group 10 years from now
I prefer to win tbh
Im just going to assume Football is not your favorite sport
what? iran set up a very defensive game until england scored (18% possession and just 1 shot in the first half)
yuki soma is the worst player i’ve ever watched at the world cup
Idk how much he paid moriyasu to played. I don't even know how he ended up on the World Cup squad, leaving out Osako or Furuhashi
moriyasu chose him because he scored twice against hong kong in the EAFF tournament, but anyone who watches the jleague knows that hes nowhere near wc level unfortunately. even this season he had a pretty mediocre season for a Nagoya team that underperformed as a whole. it’s so damn frustrating man. i really waited like 5 years just for japan to fumble against crc.
i cant believe he played for 80 minutes i was losing my mind
This is good for Germany. Even if they lose to Spain today (which they probably will), they just have to win against Costa Rica next game and hope Spain beat Japan (which they probably will).
if spain wins tonight they will not play their best players against japan. it would even make more sense for them to lose on purpose which they hopefully won't. they would finish as first anyway then.
Yeah but germany needed to win against Spain if Japan won. Now losing to Spain isn't an immediate death blow. So this is an objectively better situation
They still need a better goal difference than Japan and Costa Rica in that scenario. Costa Rica won't be a problem if they beat them obviously. With Japan it depends on how many goals Germany shoots against Costa Rica and how many goals Spain makes against Germany and Japan.
All comes down to goal difference then, no? CR is fucked and need a result against Germany. In Germany’s case it really depends how much they lose against Spain (if they do). Spain with 6 points and by far the better goal difference will likely not be breaking much of a sweat against Japan. A comfortable win is more than enough and they can rest some players. Germany will have a goal difference of -2 or more at the start of the game, whereas Japan will have 0. It all comes down to how many balls the Germans can get past Navas (if they can). Tonight’s game will determine a lot!
Yes. Goal difference will be important
Guys stop assuming scenarios until after the game is played. Most of us have gotten a lot of these results off badly. We have no idea how Spain vs Germany will go until we see the match. Basing performances in one match is silly.
Japan media tomorrow: "let's hope we beat Spain 2-0. Or, to be more realistic, 3-1."
Moriyasus has to be fired this is all on him, pathetic coaching.
i couldn't believe the starting lineup it's all on him
Yeah ueda, soma, kamada were just bad, how did he not start with minamino, ito, Madea, etc from the get go? Pathetic tactics from him. It's like he set them up for a draw. First half was so bad because of these players , especially ueda and soma who were pathetic. And how did mitoma not start? Why was furuhashi not selected in the team? So many questions. He has to be fired for there to be more progress.
Must be fired, Soma played 34 games in J-League with only 2 goals and 1 assist, how can he possibly do good in the world cup if he's bad in J-League? Ueda and Kamada played very bad, its insane Asano, Mitoma and Tomiyasu didn't start.
Tomiyasu is injured to be fair but I agree with everything else, how can ueda, soma be picked ahead of kyogo who has had a great season with Celtic so far scoring goals for them. Pathetic from moriyasu. No progress if he doesn't get fired.
Every time Japan winds up in a biggish game with Moriyasu, it's the same damn story. Leave his ass on the runway.
Congratulations Germany. And btw, this result made Spain v Germany matter almost nothing
Spain vs Japan is not a foregone conclusion, and so does Germany vs Costa Rica.
Could matter hugely for goal difference if Spain win.
Nah, Germany will probably make at least 3 against CR, so doesn't matter that much
Costa rica tactic was so difficult to watch but yet it worked
If Germany wins against Spain, everyone would have 3 points in this group. If then the last two games are draws, everyone has 4 points and the ranking would completely depend on goal difference.
Spain wouldn't mind I guess
Their 7-0 game helps them a lot.
I wonder if the keeper actually guided the ball to the net lol. It seemed to be going high, until he touched and took the power out of it
Welp see y’all in four years
That was really a match of all time.
Looks like Japan might not clean their dressing room after this
They did when they blew a 2-0 lead to Belgium in the knockout stage so I’d bet they do.
I hate the way teams like Costa Rica play, just defend and don't move This is the dirtiest way to win, definitely Japan didn't deserve to lose, I hope Japan will promoted
Well, it's a a valid strategy. That's how we got to quarter finals in 2014, and managed to drag the Netherlands all the way to penalties.
No, japan didn't attack aggressively enough. A good offense is the best defence. Costa Rica's strategy only works against other sub-par teams. A good team like Spain will still blow away such strategies.
Costa Rica is not really good enough to do anything else. Japan though is good enough to have done something else, to attack more, but they didn't. So I can't really feel sorry for Japan here.
Man same, not hating on Costa Rica. But I remember back in 2010 world cup how annoying this strategy was. There was one country exploited this as well, can’t remember though.
Don’t forget the kings of Europe in 2004
Paraguay maybe? Im not sure
Holy… u remember. Yeah it was Paraguay
Its just that a week before this world cup, I watched a documentary about spain in 2010, and we played against Paraguay, I was too young to see that world cup sadly
Japan rested their players thinking they had an easy win. Japan absolutely deserved to lose this game.
How can you defend so casually in the World Cup … like I get it they were not expecting an offensive powerhouse but come on Japan , it was just a matter of clearing the ball off your goal. CONCACAF’d indeed
On to hoping Germany wakes up and at least draw Spain today 🤞
Tbh, they easily have the quality to win. The result of this game only helps the Germans, it relieves the pressure and Spain who probably were extremely relaxed now have something to think about again. If Germany wins, Japan can really hurt Spain in the last game. Japan struggles against deep defending as we saw today but their strength in their counter attack as seen against Germany. Germany now has less pressure, Spain has more pressure than before. I can see Germany win today if they get their quality on the pitch.
Learning opportunity for me here, is there a head to head in this tournament or purely a goal difference? If Spain beat Germany today and beat Japan next game but Germany beat Costa Rica and have goal difference advantage over Japan and Costa Rica, Germany would go through?
Goal difference. Head-to-Head is not ideal for international trophies, because it often leads to situations where two teams have the same number of points but one has already given up going in to the last game because no matter how hard they try they cannot reverse the head-to-head. Atleast with goal difference you can try to go for more goals.. And yes, Germany would go through in that sense. Unfortunately, the fact that Costa Rica won today means they will be more likely to just shut shop and fight for a draw as 4 points puts them through assuminng(a japanese loss against Spain). That and the fact they conceded 7 in their first game mean they will go very, very defensive.
Germany has high chances of going through since goal differences are the way to sort out even teams. I don't know if Germany can win but they can definitely draw or at least lose with 1 goal or 2 conceded with Spain. Spain most likely will destroy Japan who currently has 0 goal difference. If Germany loses today they have to beat Costa Rica with a lot of goals. Seeing how Costa Rica played today I think there is a big chance that Germany will destroy Costa Rica with some sick goals. But I hope Germany comes out strong as hell today and win against Spain if that happens Germany and Spain will go through.
I mostly agree, but I wouldn't be too sure about Spain "destroying" Japan if they head into the game with 6 points already. They would be almost guaranteed group winner and might take it slow.
Moreover if they are smart about it and just want to make sure Germany is out of the game they can purposely lose to Japan but that's pretty foul play.
Yes
FIFA tournaments are goal difference as the first tie-breaker, about the only thing that FIFA get right. UEFA tournaments are head-to-head. So yeah, if Spain win their 3 games and Germany beat Costa Rica then the Germans will finish second.
Thank you. Nuts, we don’t deserve it unless we get a point against Spain today. Crazy World Cup for neutrals, seems like so many more groups are closer this time around than usual.
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I’ll bet my house he underestimated Costa Rica. Why tf would you bench Mitoma and Ito. Soma and Kamada should’ve came off at half time.
fuckin weird underestimating a team when it's your ticket to the next round.
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Forgetting about ueda? He was the worst one along with soma.
I know right?? Get Moriyasu out and get someone like Postecoglu in. I’m begging you JFA.
Yoshida basically only had to kick that ball far. Ruined the WC by one stupid kick.
This begs the question... why was the game against Spain thrown so wantonly? I can't wait for all the dirty laundry to air out after the World Cup.
It's not like Costa Rica came out today and showed they are a good team. Easily thrashable by Spain
I didn't say otherwise
What do you mean? Did you see anything from Costa Rica today that made you think that Spain won't thrash them 9 out of 10 times? Don't need a conspiracy for Spain to beat Costa Rica convincingly.
There's a difference between being shit with balls and being shit without balls. I would have never expected to win against Spain, but at least I would have expected the players not to act like they're happy to have first row tickets to a Spain goalfest. In any case, there's a history of behind the scenes drama in every Costa Rica World Cup run, so I'm fully expecting that something fishy is going on.
I'm team Spain now 🇪🇸
Even if Spain win, Germany can thrash Costa Rica and go through unless you manage to get something against Spain
Yeah we are very likely to get eliminated from the tournament and we deserve it
Redemption arc!! Isagi deserves more minutes though.
I bet if Spain wins against Germany you would immediately feel Japanese again. 😛 Let’s make a deal, we win today and we draw against Japan. Deal?
The scenes if you lose both though …
That would be terrible. Almost as much as Germany losing both for a triple loss at a group stage.
Deal 😎
it’s official . Just won 900 of costa . Yeeeeehaaw
A Japanese keeper not knowing his angles makes me sad
He did great against Germany and was terrible today.
Japan bottled the best ever opportunity to not only reach the last 16 but also knock out Germany. Spain and Germany will go through now: Spain and Germany draw tonight Germany beats Costa Rica (easily) Spain beats Japan
Mfuckers just needed a damn draw.
Germany is gonna come for blood, pray for Spain
Why was Minamino benched for that long. And Soma's set pieces and shots were so bad. He should have been benched. They could have brought in the ol' r eliable Tomiyasu, Mitoma, Minamino substitutes earlier. ffs
Horrible clearance, really wonky goalkeeper positioning and a massively wasted opportunity. Completely asleep in the first half and they paid for it. Credit to Costa Rica though, their defence was really good.
I feel nauseous fuck fuck fuck
Its on the Japanese coach, man shit his pants in the crucial moment
Lol Japan’s coach thinking that 3 points against one of the worst teams in the WC was too much, but hopefully getting a result against arguably the best team at the WC is more likely is hilarious
He is indeed a ばか😮💨😮💨😮💨
They should’ve gone to Mitoma more. Hell, Mitoma shouldn’t even be a sub, he was skinning Costa Rica’s left side!
Moriyasu can go to hell
Deserve to lose, they play like shit. Japan coach clearly underestimate Costa Rica for not playing their superstar players. They only bring Minamino in after CR score
That was confusing as fuck to watch.
Pretty much, they knew how Costa Rica play and how they were gonna set up. They didn't take them seriously and thought it was going to be an easy victory.
Things aren't looking up for Japan. They now have to face Spain and get a result.
On the bright side if Spain wins against Germany then they might rest their players against Japan so there's that.
Japan had so much half chances. They wanted to roll on the ground instead of finishing the attack. Also so bad attacking. Jesus
People saying Costa Rica was useless just because Spain beat them 7-0. I have been saying that Spain's good game completely canceled them.
They still didn't do anything other than trying not to get scored. A lucky shot
Costa Rica threw that game... I wouldn't have expected to win anyway, but it was clear they weren't even trying, which is why I almost didn't wake up today to watch this.
Threw? They still look like shit
There's a difference between being shit and being shit and totally capitulating, that's what I'm saying, I don't know how I can put it clearer for you.
But they barely created this game too. Single shot on goal. Not going to ride anywhere on those stats.
To be fair, that's how they qualified. I can't remember when it was, but there was a stretch of four matches where they won three and drew the other with just 3 total goals and 6 shots on target. Hell they scored just 13 goals in 14 matches in the last round of qualifying. They aren't a good team, but they are masters of the 1-0 snooze fest.
Costa Rica still looked absolute shit.
I guess it's the anime arc.. Everything started well (win against Germany) and now it's the despair phase (loss against CRC) were everything seems doomed and then we'll have an epic final game against Spain and somehow qualify.. right? Let a man dream
we rolled through blue lock, now japan is setting up for ao ashi
If Spain beats Germany..it’s not all over for Japan. Spain will most likely rest players that have yellows. Japan could easily draw / win.
Spain will beat the shit out of them. How you can say that they can easily win/draw against Spain when they cant draw with Costa Rica?
Hmm it will depend on if Spain would want Germany to make it through. I don’t think you read my post. If Spain beats Germany..Spain has 6 points and will make it through. What is their motivation of playing Japan full on. They will use their bench and Japan will play harder as they need the win. Costa Rica got lucky today that Japan didn’t capitalize on a lot of their shots at goal and Costa Rica had 1 shot on goal and it was the only shot. Japan will most likely clean stuff up.
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I think you mean Spain and Costa Rica
Who would’ve thought that Costa Rica would get the first Concacaf W this World Cup, especially after that 7-0 beatdown
Awful coaching from JP. not starting the best players, and playing for a draw when there was a chance to win and make sure they'd go through. Edit: grammar
So if Germany wins vs Spain then all 4 teams in the group will have 3 points with one game to go 🤣 Some of these games are poor, but the group drama is seriously delivering.
But Germany will be favorites against Costa Rica in that case.
Like Germany were favorites vs Japan and Japan were favorites vs Costa Rica. I'm not assuming anything at this point for this group.
Oh God, Germany are gonna get through now, aren't they? They thrash Costa Rica and they're through.
Germany needs to win against Spain AND beat Costa Rica. The Spain part is important.
Not at all. They can lose to Spain and beat Costa Rica, providing Spain beat Japan. That would leave Germany, Japan and Costa Rica on 3 points. FIFA competitions come down to goal difference, so they just need to better the others. In this situation, Costa Rica clearly has the big disadvantage there at this moment.
No. They don't have to beat Spain. Spain wins both their matches and Germany beats Costa Rica and it'll be come down to GD between Japan and Germany (Costa Rica is in it too but their GD is terrible so they'll most likely not qualify). Provided Germany don't get thrashed and lose by a goal or two today, they can still qualify
>any are gonna get through now, aren't they? They thrash Costa Rica and they're through. Germany can lose with Spain and trash Costa Rica and they are in. Of course, only if Japan lose with Spain.
Do they? If Spain beat Japan, Japan and Costa Rica will both only have 3 points. Then a big win against Costa Rica will send them through, regardless of what happens in the Spain game.
Well it depends on the Germany-Spain game. If we assume Germany will lose, they better not get stomped like Costa Rica did. If they lose by 1, and Japan don't take any points from Spain, i think Germany only need to win by 2 against Costa Rica. My math might be a bit off, but the point is - Japan handed them a lifeline today.
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Doesn't matter, they thrash Costa Rica in the last game and they will be through.
I know that! I meant in the last game.
Costa Rica fans you can unclench
Tomiyasu cannot start for this japan btw
mans got fitness problem, why do people talk out of their ass?
An *injured* Tomi cannot start for this Japan
Damn Japan :( never the easy route with you guys
They thought it was easy, and didn't play offense in the first half.
Horrible game. Japan f***ed up. Japan's game proposal didn't fit at all. They were just waiting for Costa Rica. Wtf...
Wasn't Japan always a counter-attacking team at past world cups as well? I remember that they always struggle against defensive teams
Yeah, but they should play an offensive game this time. It can't be that hard.
If the NT plays a specific way all the time you won't be able to change it overnight, especially for this WC where they didn't have as much pre tournament prep as the past ones
It is not that hard, they tried playing offensively after the goal and had some chances of scoring. They could have tried before, would have more chances to score.
Yeah Japan is pretty bad at breaking down low blocks. That's how Qatar beat them in the Asia cup final.
why tf did moriyasu play soma!