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FIFA WC 26 - Other Nations LIVE Match Thread ⚽

Brazil with a point blank header and it hits a lot of people and it's not over the line. Japan stay awake and go 100m with a half chance.
 
Tubby Casemiro levels. Looked offside but again the deception of the angle and it's all good. Japan know a thing or two about shorter guys heading in against them. Just criminal a big Japanese defender allows the ball over him in the air for a smaller player to head in.
 
grazorblade said:
so many games from japan against elite teams go like this - they go blow for blow until the elite team start the aerial bombardment and japan crack.

Japan need to improve their aerial defense if they are ever to win a world cup
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They ought to cap Aleto Circatigawa and Harito Souttaryama.
 
I want to eventually go to a back 4 but I'd also like to one day try a team like Japan's 11 with the wingbacks actually being attackers. Bos essentially is one but then someone like Irankunda.

Theirs have a robustness about them but they're maybe 15% defender if that.

Australia always need that bit of extra defensive coverage but I'd like to see it once.
 
Two changes for Japan, also in the 66th minute. Yukinari Sugawara and Junnosuke Suzuki come on for Ritsu Doan and Keito Nakamura respectively.
 
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