On this international competition day, Japan, the second-ranked team in Asia, is undoubtedly the biggest winner. Following U23's 1-0 victory over World Cup runner-up Croatia in the Dubai Cup, the Japanese men's soccer team defeated Australia 2-0 in the round of 12 to achieve a double harvest, while the national Olympic and national football teams have won consecutively, and the bottom of Chinese football continues.
In the previous Dubai Cup, Japan's U23 ushered in the biggest enemy on the road to the championship in the first round, that is, the runner-up team winner of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Croatia's U23 team. However, the Japanese team did not shy away from the stage, facing opponents who were stronger than themselves in strength and fame, the Blue Samurai still played their own consistent pass control football, with a high possession rate of 63% in the whole game, basically controlling the initiative of the stadium, in the only 4 shots on goal, Yutaro Oda hammered a hammer in the 80th minute, and finally won 1-0.
After taking this strong opponent, Japan will face Asian upstst the upstart Qatar U23 in the second round, which is also an uphill battle. However, from this performance with Croatia's U23, it can be seen that the Japanese U23 players do not panic at all, and their small range of cooperation is superb, and the physical confrontation is not inferior, which are their advantages. It can be seen that this group of national Olympic players is also expected to enter the Japanese national team in the future and become the strength of the new generation of Japanese football, succeeding Takumi Minano and Junya Ito and other divine fronts.
Of course, in addition to the national Olympic team in the wild, the Japanese team is not willing to show weakness. In a focus battle in the round of 12, Japan beat Australia 2-0 away, thus personally ending the opponent's hope of directly qualifying for the World Cup. In this game, the Japanese team faced the tall kangaroo army, still dared to fight, not afraid of being violated, they got 58% of the possession, the number of shots on goal was 23 feet, far ahead of the Australian team 10 times, it can be seen that the 2-0 score is also very reasonable.
Today, Japanese football is developing rapidly. Not only the Japanese team, but also the national Olympic team and other youth teams are also very competitive. At present, the Japanese team is only in the second place in Asia, in fact, it is not the embodiment of their real strength, in contrast, the First Ranked Iranian Team in Asia, in this round, also lost to the South Korean team, and the results in the World Cup are not as strong as the Japanese team, so the comprehensive strength of Japanese football today can be said to be the level of Asia's top spot.
In fact, in the early 21st century, the level of Japanese football is still comparable to that of China, but after 20 years of development, the level of national football can no longer be compared with the Japanese team. Now the national football team has not broken into the final circle of the World Cup for 5 consecutive years, and the Japanese team is promoted for six consecutive years, once the Football Association also used the Japanese team as a template for the development of Chinese football, but now it seems that the Japanese team has thrown off the national football team from all aspects, of course, seeing the Japanese team's strong performance, presumably will also make the national football team very encouraged, after all, the blow is the yellow skin of the crowd, the gap will certainly not be very large, since Japan can achieve such achievements, the Chinese team will certainly be able to do in the future.