Soccer The men’s soccer match at the Paris Olympics kicks off with a historic five-goal victory! Mito and Fujio score two goals, the first since Ono in 2004, and Yamamoto also scores to overwhelm Paraguay.
◇Paris Olympics Men’s Soccer Japan 5-0 Paraguay (July 25, 2024 Bordeaux Stadium) Japan, aiming to win their first medal in 56 years, faced Paraguay, who had advanced to the top of the South American qualifiers, in their first match of Group D in the preliminary league and won 5-0. Japan lost to Paraguay in their first group stage match at the 2004 Athens Games, but got their revenge in a match that was more than 20 years later. Five goals in a single game was the most ever scored at the Olympics. In the 19th minute of the first half, Japan’s forward Saito’s vertical pass was received by Hosoya, who cut it back to midfielder Mito, who shot the ball into the near post with his right foot to take the lead. Six minutes after Japan’s first goal, in the 25th minute, Paraguay’s number 10 midfielder Vieira made an after-tackle on forward Hirakawa. Hirakawa collapsed, clutching his leg. Following a VAR decision, the referee conducted an on-field review and showed Vieira a red card. With the opponents now having a numerical advantage with 10 men, Hirakawa resumed playing but sat down on the pitch in the 32nd minute and was unable to get up. He seemed concerned about his right foot, which had been stepped on. He was carried away on a stretcher and replaced immediately. Forward Sato came onto the pitch in place of him. In the 18th minute of the second half, Saito evaded the opposing defender on the right side of the penalty area and sent a cross, which Mito, who ran in, headed in to add to the lead. In the 24th minute, midfielder Yamamoto scored with his left foot, his dominant foot. The momentum continued, and in the 36th minute, forward Fujio headed in a free kick just outside the penalty area to give the team its fourth goal. In addition, in the 42nd minute, Fujio, who broke through with a through pass from forward Hosoya, scored the final fifth goal. ★Time 1 posted: 2024/07/25 (Thu) 04:00:11.71 Previous thread.
Han-hyung completely destroyed the strongest Japan, who had beaten the South American champions, in the preliminaries. Just how strong is he? I can’t wait to see it, so tell me when the match is!
That means Ito Ryo is better than Fujita Chima. Ito Ryo was called up to the A national team, but was completely disastrous against Thailand. He hasn’t been called up since. I can’t stand to see Chima, who was at a level where he could lose to Ito Ryo, brag about being better than Endo or Morita.
>>24 Brian misjudged things and SB Sekine got a yellow card. This is a big blow considering the number of games missed due to accumulated yellow cards.
Chima is getting praised, but with one player down, Chima was pretty much free. He was good at stealing the ball, but even though he was so free, he still has a long way to go in terms of building up the play.
The Japanese national soccer team is really deceiving. I think it was New Year’s this year. I was watching the sports news and they were doing a feature on the Japanese national soccer team,
they were covering it in a tone like “They’re on a 10-game winning streak in international matches, and they beat the super-strong German soccer team, so the current Japanese national team is the strongest in history!”
I thought “Wow! Amazing! Is the current Japanese national team the strongest in history?” and decided to pay a little attention to it,
but I was super disappointed when they lost back to back to weak Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Iran in a tournament called the Asian Cup, which makes you wonder if anyone even plays soccer. You really can’t trust the Japanese national soccer team. If they were truly strong, they would never lose to some weak Asian country.
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