#2022 World Cup ##日本0-1 defeat to Costa Rica #
On November 27, the match between Japan and Costa Rica attracted a lot of attention. Judging from the starting list alone, head coach Moriho rotated as many as 5 people, and also mainly rotated forwards, which is too light on the enemy. Japan is drawn in Group E and Group Z, a death group, against Germany, Costa Rica and Spain. Every game is not good. Just because of the 2-1 defeat of the strong Germany in the first game, you can't underestimate the capital, let alone if Japan upset Costa Rica and the group stage end against Spain, another strong team, the difficulty of promotion will increase sharply. Morihoichi's rotation of starters can be described by the word "big gamble". What he "gambled" was that the team could still win Costa Rica with a rotation of five, and several other absolute workhorses could make comprehensive preparations for the final game against Spain. However, this is the World Cup, a top tournament once every four years, and the opponent will not be tied up and will not easily give you 3 points.
In fact, Japan only needs to face Costa Rica, the worst in the group in the second round, and win to secure advance qualification. This also directly makes it clear that the situation of the death group qualification is that Spain and Germany are competing for another qualifying spot. Germany will face Spain later in the second round and risk losing and going out early.
However, everything is hypothetical, the Japanese team does not compete, Morihoichi is too bold to change, the gamble is unsuccessful, and he is drunk. I didn't expect that such an excellent team as the Japanese team still lost in terms of the manager's incompetent employment and change of starters. The famous football commentator Han Qiaosheng made a sharp comment, Morihoichi's conservatism is sometimes incomprehensible, why don't Morihoichi fight in the game where he should get points?
After the game, Morihoichi said frankly in an interview, sorry for the Japanese fans, today except for the goal accident, we controlled the game at other moments, everything was for the goal, but unfortunately it did not go as we thought. The fans were very dissatisfied with this statement, and the opportunity to advance directly after winning 2 consecutive games was missed, and then they faced the danger of losing the game.