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| South Korean Lee Kang-in is fighting with Maya Yoshida of Japan at the Japan-Korea War held at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan on the 25th. (Provided by the Korea Football Association) 2021.3.25/News1 |
Maya Yoshida (Sampdoria), the captain of the Japanese national football team, expressed his honest feelings about the tactics of the’Bentu’. He analyzed that although he did not expect’zero top’, the movement of the players seemed not to be organic.
The soccer team led by coach Bento lost 0-3 in a friendly match against Japan held at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama, Japan on the 25th.
Korea gave the opening goal to Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale) in the 16th minute of the first half and further conceded against Daiichi Kamada (Frankfurt) in the 27th minute counterattack crisis. In the 37th minute of the second half, Ento Wataru (Stuttgart) was able to reach the third goal and lost completely.
It was the first time that the soccer team lost one day ago after losing 1-2 in the East Asian Cup held in Anbang in 2013. With the collapse of the 80th Korea-Japan War, the record of both countries was 42 wins, 23 draws and 15 losses.
It was a shameful defeat for Korea, and an unexpected win for Japan.
Yoshida, the central defender and captain of the Japanese national team, told the secret of how well he was able to stop Korean players after the game.
On this day, Bento used a zero-top tactic of proposing Lee Kang-in (Valencia) as fake number 9, but it didn’t work at all. Rather, it was not possible to produce such a threatening scene with a simple play that relies on a long pass.
In both the first half and the second half, only one effective shot was so frustrating.
Yoshida said, “Honestly, it wasn’t as expected, and as soon as the game started, Lee Kang-in was in the front,” he said.
In fact, Lee Kang-in continued to descend to the rear when the ball did not come forward, but Korea lost in the mid-won fight and the ball distribution was not properly performed. Our camp continued to lose the ball and suffered a concession crisis several times.
Lee Kang-in was replaced with Lee Jeong-hyup (Gyeongnam) at the start of the second half after digesting only the first half of the day.
Yoshida said, “If I found a problem during the game, I thought about solving it immediately, and I was able to finish it well,” said Yoshida.
Bento also admitted to the failure of the tactics after the game.
He said, “I tried to crack the opponent’s defensive line through the zero top.” I wanted it, but it didn’t work,” he explained.
Bento said, “Lee Kang-in continued to come down to get the ball and the attack was only deployed in the center. I admit that the strategy I wanted didn’t come out and this tactic didn’t work,” he said.