Japan shocked the world with their wins over Japan and Germany at the 2022 World cup in Qatar. Japan came into these games with one of the most unique strategies we have ever seen in football, and it might just change the way people play football forever. In this video we’ll discuss Japan’s killer game plan, tactics, and strategy to beat some of the tournament favorites. Let me know your thoughts on Japan so far at the 2022 World Cup!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 How Impressive is Japan?
00:33 Some Background Information
01:30 Japan vs. Germany
03:39 Japan vs. Spain
04:50 Changing Football Forever
30 Comments
You left out an important factor when discussing "why havent we seen this before". The missing link is the five-sub rule.
With five substitutes per game, it is possible to plan strategies that involve a dramatic change in shape, tactics and personnel, at the most crucial point in a contest., If you look at both the Germany and Spain matches, Japan used its fifth sub with more than ten minutes on the clock, and the first four subs all came quickly, at the turning point in the contest. This is something that Moriyasu has been working on for at least the past year. It is a high-risk – high-reward philosophy that the other teams have yet to really comprehend.
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2 words blue lock
“how japan solved tournament(???) football” to id west and this first we need to go to world war 1! we can’t just get to the point
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A lot of people compare their results to 2004 Greece, but I beg to differ. 2004 Greece resorted to their phyisical strength, height. Japan deosn't have the height, instead they have the pace and stamina. Look at Maeda's stats in the match against Spain. Japan's tactics is to give everything they have in the first 10-20 mins of the second have after they send in their key attacking players before the other side adapts. Japan overwhelmed both Spain and Germany until the 2nd goal. As Luis Enrique said, "If Japan wanted a 3rd( or 4th) goal they could've got it". Japan has confidence in their collective defense so they decided to park a bus instead of exhausting their players.
To play defense and then counter-attack at blitzkrieg speed once you have the ball in possession takes enormous skill. The weaker team usually cannot pull this off because they don't have forward that can score a goal with high successful rate. Basically, Argentina uses this tactic to score over France in the final. The 2nd goal they scored against France is a textbook example in counterattack. Just three passes traverse the whole length of the soccer field. They could do that because they have Messi. BTW, the 2022 final is once in a lifetime final because world cup final is usually boring to death when both teams played super cautiously. Morrocco also played counterattack nicely, but they lack the forward that can put the ball into the net. This was the case when they played against France. In the game where Japan played against Germany, the second goal Japan scored is world class. The angle to score is so narrow that it takes player like Neymar to score. You don't expect team like Japan to score such a goal. Yet they managed to do just that. The fact is, to beat a world class team, you need counterattack at blitzkrieg speed. It is much harder to defense when everything is on the move. Simple as that. The fact that France lost to Argentina is because they could not do that to Argentina and Argentina could do that to France. It takes two Mbappe to pull that off but unfortunately, France only got one Mbappe in the team.
It’s soccer not football
Nothing new. Technically Japan are good. Physically they are poor. If you want to beat Japan just play real football. You are very naive in your comments. We have seen all this before. Japan copied this from another team . If you don’t know the name of that well known team then you should not be following football. As a person who has followed Japanese football since 1986, I can tell you this Japan team had two unfair advantages of the European sides. Do you know what they were? Study and find out. As football becomes less physical year by year teams we will see more games of weaker teams go through. I miss real football.
This is the power of homogeneity vs diversity. An homogenous team that actually loves their country and national identity is able to do wonders. I say that as a brazilian. The lack of passion in our current team is reflective of our current cultural state.
Germany and Spain are not very good teams.
Japan were brilliant.
Japan shut up everybody, only lost to Crotia for being "too green" playing with the big sharks but the next cup we will see the Blue Lock project materialized… 🔥
Is there anything new or surprising here?A tem defending when feeling it is weaker than the oponent, a team atacking when it loses 1-0,a spain that tried to lose in order to avoid brazil and other tough teams ,a spain making a ton of stupid passes without any sense and losing because of own mistakes, a germany that can t run through from the group stage, a high pressing game that gives nice results against idiots who are able only to pass, a defeat of a team that scores only once from 14 shots, a 3-4-3 that gives offensive results and no defensive risk against a stupid tikitaka without shots,and a bunch of controversial decisions from a referee in Qatar 2022?Absolutely nothing here, even Messi s Barcelona can lose the two legs qualification in a single error made by Messi himself and that happened against Chelsea many years ago.Even though highly skilled idiots will lose and deserve it, and a hard working intelligent team with a bit of luck can beat anything,and a defensive bus can stop even Brazil as croatians or moroccans showed.Nothing new ,nothing surprising,even the group of death for spain and some bunch of crap for england that looked like the group was bought for russia but it couldn t get to the world cup so the english again took it as they take all the easy draws in champions league, all of them except liverpool.And still don t win anything.As the russians ,A sack of money won t score you a trophy,and here there is nothing new either. Nor the change of tactics when the score is changing,the author of the video is lame and hype seeking.
森保監督は、交代枠が5人になった事による戦い方を模索する中で、この戦術をフットサルから学んだと語ってます。
Saudi adopted very similar tactics in their shock win vs Argentina. A shock hard-press at the start of the 2nd half
Correct me if I'm wrong, but tbh, I feel like Japan's tactics is indeed nothing new and called 'Gegenpressing.' The only new addition was the use of subbed players.
The Japanese fans are just awesome.
Unfortunately, not many German fans showed up because the German fans were exposed to a campaign of disinformation by German associated media about the reality on the ground in Qatar. A team without fans is a team without spirit.
A lot of surprises in FWC in Qatar 2022 .
I think expected ELO of the second-place qualifier is a better measure than average ELO of the difficulty of a group. Measuring it that way, there are probably significantly fewer than 13 historical groups harder than this group. For example, when measuring in this way (and using second-highest rated participant as an approximation for expected ELO of second-place qualifier, which should be a good approximation since the opportunity to play many qualifying games increases the likelihood of strong teams qualifying consistently), this group becomes significantly harder (with a second-highest rating of 1963) than the other group in 2022 higher on the list at number 6 (2022 Group G, with a second-highest rating of 1902).
blue rock is real
Korea vs Japan China National Team (Total Match Wins and Goals)
Korea 42 wins 92 goals
Japan 16 wins 33 goals
Korea 21 wins 41 goals
China 2 wins 4 goals
U14~U23 Korea vs Japan China National Team (Total Match Wins and Goals)
Korea 75 wins 193 goals
Japan 25 wins 61 goals
Koera 74 wins 84 goals
China 25 wins 20 goals
All Total
Korea 212 wins 410 goals
Japan +China 68 wins 118 goals
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It is possible due to the blue lock plan
ur analysis was described by a commentator here in peru everyone of his experts football colleagues laughed at him and he was right beat both giants. Everyone was quiet after.
The Asian game and players are evolving. This was happening over the past few decades. Their leagues have improved their players are getting bigger contracts. Everyone was looking at the Afican players and teams but although they have flair strength and creativity. The Asians have excellent technique they have a perfect command of the basics they are supremely conditioned very disciplined very tactical very good individual football IQ and they play the game at breakneck speed.
Now what Japan needs is an individual goal scorer and practice penalties(im serious btw)
0:19 Wow…Brazil, Switzerland, & Serbia in the same group twice in 4 years…Odd
Its very sad to see Japan lose on penalties. Bery harsh.
I like how Japan built the football squad
This tactical should bring to malaysia squad