Football World Cup 2018 / Japan
Football World Cup 2018 : Japan |
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Trainer | Akira Nishino |
captain | Makoto Hasebe |
Qualified as | Winner Asia Group 2 |
World rankings before the tournament |
61 |
Tournament result | Out in the round of 16 |
Games won | 1 |
Games tie | 1 |
Games lost | 2 |
Gates | 6: 7 |
This article covers the Japanese national soccer team at the 2018 World Cup . Japan took part in the finals for the sixth time. Japan has always qualified since it first participated in 1998. Japan is the first team in World Cup history to qualify for the round of 16 due to the fair play rating, as they received fewer yellow cards in the games against Colombia, Poland and Senegal than the Senegalese tied for points and goals.
qualification
The team qualified through the qualification of the Asian Football Association AFC .
Games
Japan did not have to intervene until the second round and met Afghanistan , Cambodia , Singapore and Syria in the group stage . Of the eight resulting matches, Japan won seven and only played a draw in the first game. The Japanese never conceded a goal and scored at least two goals apart from the goalless first game. As group winners, Japan qualified for the third round, which again took place as a group stage. Here the Japanese met Australia , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , Iraq and Thailand . The Japanese lost the first and last game of ten games. They also drew twice. With a 2-0 win over Australia, the Japanese managed to qualify for the World Cup finals on the penultimate matchday. The Australians had ultimately lost fewer games than the Japanese and Saudis placed in front of them, but since they only won five and drew four times in a row, they had to be content with third place due to the poorer goal difference compared to the Saudis with the same number of points and the internal route - and intercontinental playoffs are going to qualify.
Overall, national coach Vahid Halilhodžić , who took over the team in March 2015 after the quarter-finals at the Asian Cup , used 39 players in the 18 games, 19 of which were also in the squad for the 2015 Asian Cup . Two players were used in all games: Genki Haraguchi and Maya Yoshida . Ten players only had one bet. On March 29, 2016, Shinji Okazaki made his 100th international match in the qualifier against Syria . A year later he scored his 50th international goal in the qualifier against Thailand. Captain Makoto Hasebe also made his 100th international match during qualifying: on September 1, 2016 in the first game of the third round against the United Arab Emirates.
The top scorer was Keisuke Honda with seven goals. This is followed by Shinji Kagawa with six and Genki Haraguchi and Shinji Okazaki with five goals each. A total of 15 Japanese contributed at least one goal to the 41 goals they scored themselves, and they also benefited from an own goal each by a Cambodian, Afghan and Syrian player, so they scored 44 goals (average 2.44 per game). World champions Germany and Belgium, who scored as many goals in ten games, averaged 4.3 goals per game.
Second round
date | Venue | host | guest | Result | Goal scorers for Japan | |
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06/16/2015 | Saitama | Japan | - | Singapore | 0-0 | |
09/03/2015 | Saitama | Japan | - | Cambodia | 3: 0 (1: 0) | Keisuke Honda (28th), Maya Yoshida (50th), Shinji Kagawa (61st) |
09/08/2015 | Tehran ( IRN ) | Afghanistan | - | Japan | 0: 6 (0: 2) | Shinji Kagawa (10th, 49th), Masato Morishige (35th), Shinji Okazaki (57th, 60th), Keisuke Honda (74th) |
08/10/2015 | Sib ( OMA ) | Syria | - | Japan | 0: 3 (0: 0) | Keisuke Honda (55th / penalty), Shinji Okazaki (70th), Takashi Usami (88th) |
11/12/2015 | Kallang | Singapore | - | Japan | 0: 3 (0: 2) | Mū Kanazaki (20th), Keisuke Honda (26th), Maya Yoshida (87th) |
11/17/2015 | Phnom Penh | Cambodia | - | Japan | 0: 2 (0: 0) | Own goal Cambodia (52nd), Keisuke Honda (90th) |
March 24, 2016 | Saitama | Japan | - | Afghanistan | 5: 0 (1: 0) | Shinji Okazaki (43.), Hiroshi Kiyotake (58.), own goal Afghanistan (63.), Maya Yoshida (74.), Mū Kanazaki (78.) |
03/29/2016 | Saitama | Japan | - | Syria | 5: 0 (1: 0) | Own goal Syria (17th), Shinji Kagawa (66th, 90th), Keisuke Honda (86th), Genki Haraguchi (90th + 3) |
- ↑ Afghanistan has played all of its home games in Iran. Source = Mir Farhad Ali Khan: Crisis-Hit Countries Can Play World Cup Qualifiers in Iran , In: Persianfootball.com from April 29, 2015.
- ↑ Syria has played all of its home games in Oman.
Final table of the second round
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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1. | Japan | 8th | 7th | 1 | 0 | 27: 0 | +27 | 22nd |
2. | Syria | 8th | 6th | 0 | 2 | 26:11 | +15 | 18th |
3. | Singapore | 8th | 3 | 1 | 4th | 9: 9 | ± 0 | 10 |
4th | Afghanistan | 8th | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8:24 | −16 | 9 |
5. | Cambodia | 8th | 0 | 0 | 8th | 1:27 | −26 | 0 |
Third round
date | Venue | host | guest | Result | Goal scorers for Japan | |
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09/01/2016 | Saitama | Japan | - | Ver. Arab. Emirates | 1: 2 (1: 1) | Keisuke Honda (11th) |
09/06/2016 | Bangkok | Thailand | - | Japan | 0: 2 (0: 1) | Genki Haraguchi (19th), Takuma Asano (75th) |
10/06/2016 | Saitama | Japan | - | Iraq | 2: 1 (1: 0) | Genki Haraguchi (26th), Hotaru Yamaguchi (90th + 5) |
10/11/2016 | Melbourne | Australia | - | Japan | 1: 1 (0: 1) | Genki Haraguchi (5th) |
11/15/2016 | Saitama | Japan | - | Saudi Arabia | 2: 1 (1: 0) | Hiroshi Kiyotake (45th / penalty), Genki Haraguchi (80th) |
03/23/2017 | al-Ain | Ver. Arab. Emirates | - | Japan | 0: 2 (0: 1) | Yūya Kubo (14th), Yasuyuki Konno (52nd) |
03/28/2017 | Saitama | Japan | - | Thailand | 4: 0 (2: 0) | Shinji Kagawa (8th), Shinji Okazaki (19th), Yūya Kubo (57th), Maya Yoshida (83rd) |
06/13/2017 | Tehran ( IRN ) | Iraq | - | Japan | 1: 1 (0: 1) | Yūya Ōsako (8th) |
08/31/2017 | Saitama | Japan | - | Australia | 2: 0 (1: 0) | Takuma Asano (41.), Yōsuke Ideguchi (82.) |
05.09.2017 | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia | - | Japan | 1: 0 (0: 0) |
- ↑ Iraq has played all of its home games in Iran. Source = Mir Farhad Ali Khan: Crisis-Hit Countries Can Play World Cup Qualifiers in Iran , In: Persianfootball.com from April 29, 2015.
Third round final table
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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1. | Japan | 10 | 6th | 2 | 2 | 17: 7 | +10 | 20th |
2. | Saudi Arabia | 10 | 6th | 1 | 3 | 17:10 | +7 | 19th |
3. | Australia | 10 | 5 | 4th | 1 | 16:11 | +5 | 19th |
4th | Ver. Arab. Emirates | 10 | 4th | 1 | 5 | 10:13 | −3 | 13 |
5. | Iraq | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11:12 | −1 | 11 |
6th | Thailand | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8th | 6:24 | −18 | 2 |
Games
date | Result | opponent | venue | Goal scorers for Japan |
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October 6, 2017 | 2: 1 | New Zealand | Toyota | Yūya Ōsako (50.), Shū Kurata (88.) |
October 10, 2017 | 3: 3 | Haiti | Yokohama | Shū Kurata (7th), Ken'yū Sugimoto (17th), Shinji Kagawa (90th + 2) |
November 10, 2017 | 1: 3 | Brazil | Villeneuve d'Ascq ( FRA ) | Tomoaki Makino (63.) |
November 14, 2017 | 0: 1 | Belgium | Bruges | |
December 9, 2017 | 1-0 | North Korea | Tokyo | Yōsuke Ideguchi (90th + 4) |
December 12, 2017 | 2: 1 | People's Republic of China | Tokyo | Yū Kobayashi (84th), Gen Shōji (88.) |
December 16, 2017 | 1: 4 | South Korea | Tokyo | Yū Kobayashi (3rd / penalty) |
March 24, 2018 | 1: 1 | Mali | Liege ( BEL ) | Shoya Nakajima (90th + 5) |
March 27, 2018 | 1: 2 | Ukraine | Liege ( BEL ) | Tomoaki Makino (41st) |
May 30, 2018 | 0: 2 | Ghana | Yokohama | |
June 8, 2018 | 0: 2 | Switzerland | Lugano | |
June 12, 2018 | 4: 2 | Paraguay | Innsbruck ( AUT ) | Takashi Inui (51st, 63rd), Federico Santander (77th / own goal), Shinji Kagawa (90th + 1) |
Remarks:
- Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup. For the New Zealanders, the game was a preparation game for the playoff games against Peru, in which they failed.
- For the games in December at the East Asian Championship , only eight players were nominated, who were also used in the qualifying games, but were used a maximum of four times. Five players had no previous international experience.
- On April 9, national team coach Vahid Halilhodžić was sacked and replaced by Akira Nishino .
Quarter
Team quarters will be the Rubin Kazan's training facility in Kazan .
Squad
A preliminary player list contains 27 players. On May 31, the list was reduced to 23 players. Were canceled Toshihiro Aoyama , Takuma Asano , Yosuke Ideguchi and Kento Misao . Of these, however, Takuma Asano and Yosuke Ideguchi travel to the training camp in Austria as backup . They can only move into the World Cup if a nominated player is injured up to 24 hours before the first game.
position | No. | Surname | birth date |
Calls | Gates | society | debut | Last use |
World Cup participation | World Cup games (before 2018) | World Cup goals (before 2018) | |||||
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goal | 12 | Masaaki Higashiguchi | 05/12/1986 | 5 | 0 | Gamba Osaka | 2015 | 06/12/2018 | ||||||||
1 | Eiji Kawashima | 03/20/1983 | 84 | 0 | FC Metz ↓ | 2008 | 06/08/2018 | 4th | 1 | 2010, 2014 | 7th | 0 | ||||
23 | Kosuke Nakamura | 02/27/1995 | 4th | 0 | Kashiwa Reysol | 2017 | 06/12/2018 | |||||||||
Defense | 6th | Wataru Endo | 02/09/1993 | 12 | 0 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 2015 | 06/12/2018 | ||||||||
20th | Tomoaki Makino | 05/11/1987 | 32 | 4th | Urawa Red Diamonds | 2010 | 06/08/2018 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
5 | Yūto Nagatomo | 09/12/1986 | 105 | 3 | Galatasaray Istanbul M | 2008 | 06/08/2018 | 4th | 2010, 2014 | 7th | 0 | |||||
21st | Gotoku Sakai | 03/14/1991 | 41 | 0 | Hamburger SV ↓ | 2012 | 06/12/2018 | 1 | 2014 | 0 | 0 | |||||
19th | Hiroki Sakai | 04/12/1990 | 43 | 0 | Olympique de Marseille | 2012 | 06/12/2018 | 4th | 2014 | 0 | 0 | |||||
3 | Gen Shōji | 12/11/1992 | 12 | 1 | Kashima Antlers | 2015 | 06/12/2018 | 3 | ||||||||
2 | Naomichi Ueda | October 24, 1994 | 4th | 0 | Kashima Antlers | 2017 | 06/12/2018 | |||||||||
22nd | Maya Yoshida | 08/24/1988 | 82 | 10 | Southampton FC | 2011 | 06/08/2018 | 4th | 2014 | 3 | 0 | |||||
midfield | 8th | Genki Haraguchi | 05/09/1991 | 33 | 6th | Fortuna Düsseldorf M2 ↑ | 2011 | 06/12/2018 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
17th | Makoto Hasebe | 01/18/1984 | 110 | 2 | Eintracht Frankfurt P. | 2006 | 06/08/2018 | 4th | 1 | 2010, 2014 | 7th | 0 | ||||
4th | Keisuke Honda | 06/13/1986 | 95 | 36 | CF Pachuca | 2009 | 06/08/2018 | 3 | 1 | 2010, 2014 | 7th | 3 | ||||
14th | Takashi Inui | 06/02/1988 | 27 | 4th | SD Eibar | 2010 | 06/12/2018 | 4th | 2 | 1 | ||||||
10 | Shinji Kagawa | 03/17/1989 | 92 | 30th | Borussia Dortmund | 2008 | 06/12/2018 | 3 | 1 | 2014 | 3 | 0 | ||||
18th | Ryōta Ōshima | 01/23/1993 | 5 | 0 | Kawasaki Frontale M | 2017 | 06/08/2018 | |||||||||
7th | Gaku Shibasaki | 05/28/1992 | 18th | 3 | Getafe CF. | 2014 | 06/12/2018 | 4th | 1 | |||||||
11 | Takashi Usami | 05/06/1992 | 24 | 3 | Fortuna Düsseldorf M2 ↑ | 2015 | 06/12/2018 | 2 | ||||||||
16 | Hotaru Yamaguchi | 10/06/1990 | 42 | 2 | Cerezo Osaka P | 2013 | 06/12/2018 | 3 | 2014 | 3 | 0 | |||||
Storm | 13 | Yoshinori Muto | 07/15/1992 | 23 | 2 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | 2014 | 06/12/2018 | 1 | |||||||
9 | Shinji Okazaki | 04/16/1986 | 113 | 50 | Leicester City | 2008 | 06/12/2018 | 3 | 2010, 2014 | 7th | 2 | |||||
15th | Yūya Ōsako | May 18, 1990 | 29 | 7th | 1. FC Cologne ↓ | 2013 | 06/12/2018 | 4th | 1 | 2014 | 2 | 0 | ||||
Coaching staff |
Trainer | Akira Nishino | 04/07/1955 | 12 | 1 | 2018 | ||||||||||
Trainer assistant |
Makoto Teguramori | 11/14/1967 | ||||||||||||||
Hajime Moriyasu | 08/23/1968 | 35 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Fitness trainer |
Naoki Hayakawa | 03/09/1993 | ||||||||||||||
Tomohiro Ogai | 01/05/1974 | |||||||||||||||
Goalkeeping coach |
Yukiya Hamano | 09/28/1972 | ||||||||||||||
Takashi Shimoda | 11/28/1975 | 1 | 0 |
- ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list
- ↑ a b Status: June 12, 2018 after the game against Paraguay
- ↑ Clubs in italics played in the second highest league in the World Cup year, M = champions in the World Cup year, M2 = champions of the 2nd division in the World Cup year, P = cup winners in the World Cup year, ↓ = relegated in the World Cup year, ↑ = Club will play in the first division for the next season,
Finals
Group draw
Venues and quarters (blue / italic) of the Japanese team |
For the draw of the qualifying groups on December 1st, Japan was assigned pot 4. The team met in Group H , the only group without current or ex-world champions on Colombia , Poland and Senegal . Colombia were the last opponents at the last World Cup and Japan were eliminated with a 4-1 defeat. They also met in the last game in the preliminary round of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup , and Japan were eliminated 1-0 there as well. There is also a goalless draw in a friendly. Against Poland, however, the record is positive with two wins in friendly games and 7-0 goals. Against Senegal, there were only three friendlies with one draw and two defeats.
Japan had never played in Russia before the World Cup.
Group stage / group H matches
Pl. | country | Sp. | S. | U | N | Gates | Diff. | Points |
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1. | Colombia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5: 2 | +3 | 6th |
2. | Japan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4: 4 | ± 0 | 4th |
3. | Senegal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4: 4 | ± 0 | 4th |
4th | Poland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2: 5 | −3 | 3 |
Tuesday, June 19, 2018, 3:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk | ||||
Colombia | - | Japan | 1: 2 (1: 1) | 6./Elfmeter ' Kagawa , 73.' Osako |
Sun., June 24, 2018, 8:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Yekaterinburg | ||||
Japan | - | Senegal | 2: 2 (1: 1) | 34. ′ Inui , 78. ′ Honda |
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Volgograd | ||||
Japan | - | Poland | 0: 1 (0: 0) |
Games of the knockout round
Mon., July 2, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Rostov-on-Don ( Rostov-Arena ) | ||||
Belgium | - | Japan | 3: 2 (0: 0) | 48 ′ Haraguchi , 52 ′ Inui |
The Japanese met Belgium in the first game of the 2002 home World Cup and scored 2-2. There were also two wins, one draw and one defeat in friendly matches - in the last game in November 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ jfa.jp: "SAMURAI BLUE beat Syria 5-0 to top group in FIFA World Cup Russia Asian Qualifiers Round 2's last match"
- ^ Makoto Hasebe - Century of International Appearances
- ↑ SAMURAI BLUE (Japan National Team) squad, schedule - EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2017 Final - (8-16 Dec.)
- ↑ fifa.com: Halilhodzic is no longer Japan's national coach
- ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
- ↑ francefootball.fr: Une première liste de 27 joueurs pour le Japon
- ↑ jfa.jp: SAMURAI BLUE (Japan National Team) Squad, Schedule - KIRIN CHALLENGE CUP 2018 vs Ghana (5/30 @ Kanagawa / Nissan Stadium)
- ↑ fifa.com: Nishino announces provisional Japan squad
- ↑ kicker.de: Japan's Asano is traveling to the World Cup as a backup