Japan men’s national team coach Javier Aguirre revealed his intention at a news conference at International Stadium Yokohama on 8th September that he would make some changes in his starting squad for their second game of the 2014 Kirin Challenge Cup against Venezuela.

The new boss played four players who were called up for the national team for the first time in their first game against Uruguay that was played three days before, but he said that he wanted to continue to check on his players’ skill-sets by using other men who did not see action in the Uruguay match. ”I want to see all of our players and we will substitute five players for tomorrow. Of course, we may make them during the match,” Aguirre said. ”In the early stage of the new team, we want to observe it first to determine what we want to do with it. Establishing the style for the team is more important than anything,” he added.

Aguirre said that he would look for a win, checking on his players, while he would also ask his squad to not repeat the same mistakes they made in their loss in the first game. ”We want to win this match. We lost the other day and just want a better result this time,” the Mexican said. Japan closed their practice to the media, except for the first 15 minutes of it, and elaborately worked on their final tune-ups under drizzling rains.

Japan and Venezuela have played twice and drew in both, including one that was played in August of two years ago. The South American side will miss forward Salomon Rondon (Zenit), who was ejected in the Korea match.

The contest will kick off at 7:20 p.m. at International Stadium Yokohama.