Here’s the Japan squad for the Azerbaijan Kirin Challenge Cup game tomorrow night … who would be in your starting XI?
3-2-4-1 for me?
GK – anyone will do – he can read the newspaper and have a coffee while the rest of the team rack up the goals!
DF – Tokunaga, Inoha, Makino
Double DF MF (volante) – Hasebe, Hosogai
Right WB Sakai Left WB Nagatomo
Attacking MFs Honda, Kagawa,
FW – Morimoto (or Okazaki)
2nd half Miyaichi for Nagatomo and a slight change in formation!!
What do you think?
Comment below or at www.jsoccer.com … all the best to Samurai Blue tomorrow!
Goalkeepers — KAWASHIMA Eiji (Lierse SK), NISHIKAWA Shusaku (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), GONDA Shuichi (FC Tokyo)
Defenders — KOMANO Yuichi (Jubilo Iwata), KURIHARA Yuzo (Yokohama F.Marinos), TOKUNAGA Yuhei (FC Tokyo), INOHA Masahiko (Vissel Kobe), NAGATOMO Yuto (Inter Milan), MAKINO Tomoaki (Urawa Reds), UCHIDA Atsuto (Shalke 04), SAKAI Hiroki (Kashiwa Reysol)
Midfielders — NAKAMURA Kengo (Kawasaki Frontale), HASEBE Makoto (VfL Wolfsburg), HOSOGAI Hajime (FC Augsburg), HONDA Keisuke (CSKA Moscow), TAKAHASHI Hideto (FC Tokyo), HASEGAWA Aria Jasuru (FC Tokyo)
Forwards — MAEDA Ryoichi (Jubilo Iwata), OKAZAKI Shinji (VfB Stuttgart), MORIMOTO Takayuki (Novara), KAGAWA Shinji (Borussia Dortmund), HARAGUCHI Genki (Urawa Reds), MIYAICHI Ryo (Arsenal/Bolton!)
Hi Alan,
Decent team but….. How about going down the Petrovic route. (and no I’m not a Urawa or Sanfrecce fan :))
ST – Maeda
AM – Honda – AM – Kagawa
LM – Nagatomo – RM – Sakai
DM: Hasebe – DM: Hosogai
CB: Makino, CB: Inoha (in the middle) CB: Kurihara
GK: Kawashima
I know it won’t be played but it’s a good option. Both Sanfrecce and Urawa have had good success this season, why not give it a go at international level.
I like the three backs route!! But need Konno in there, not Kurihara in this system?