On October 31, Beijing time, the Premier League played to the tenth round, and Japanese star Takumi Minano finally broke the record of not playing in the Premier League this season.
In Liverpool's home game against Brighton, he came on in the 86th minute. Coupled with injury time, Takumi Minamino has played only 8 minutes in the Premier League this season, ranking last among all Asian players who stayed in the world.
In the final moments of the game, Takumi Minamino ran out of the gap on the side, but no one passed the ball, which was very similar to Wu Lei, who played in La Liga. But this frontcourt player who has not performed well in the Premier League this season, why doesn't anyone say he is a water dispenser?
Takumi Minamino is a representative player in Japan's 95 age group, but he has repeatedly lost to the national football players of the same age group in Asian competitions.
In the 2014 U19 Asian Cup group stage, Tang Shi and Wei Shihao both scored goals, and the 95 national youth team defeated the Japanese team. Three years later, in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, Wei Shihao scored again, Deng Hanwen added the icing on the cake, and the U23 national football team once again beat Japan 2-1. If it were not for the Fact that the Chinese team was the host to vacate a place, if one of the teams in that tournament chose not to participate, Japan would have missed the final round of the U23 Asian Cup in Suzhou that year.
To this day, Takumi Minamino has not defeated the national football team for japan. In the World Preliminary Tournament against the national football team, he missed the Japanese team roster due to injury.
However, Takumi Minamino attracted the attention of European teams with his excellent performances at the club and landed in the Austrian League. He then joined Liverpool.
In the past few seasons, Takumi Minamino has performed averagely with Liverpool and Southampton. When he first landed in the Premier League, the AFC compared him to Son Heung-min. But after 3 seasons, he has only left 3 goals in the Premier League and has not had 1 assist. In addition, he scored 5 goals in the League Cup.
Just by looking at the number of goals scored, Takumi Minano is not bad. But you know, in the first few rounds of the League Cup, it is basically the major giants training young people and substitute players. It's not a blessing to start and score goals in a game like this. Moreover, Takumi Minamino did not gain Klopp's trust after scoring in the League Cup. Back in the league, he only made this one appearance.
Unfortunately, In takumi Minamino's only Premier League game, Liverpool lost points and the gap with Chelsea became 3 points.
In the game, Takumi Minamino ran out of the empty seat twice, but no one paid attention to him and no one gave him a pass. In the 93rd minute, Takumi Minamino waved the ball from the flank, but Salah preferred to choose Henderson at the far end rather than give the Japanese brother who was next to him.
Before Takumi Minamino came out, Klopp said a bunch of things. But after playing, he scored very few goals, and his teammates almost ignored him. Aside from a scissor foot tackle, he didn't make any other impressions.
However, Takumi Minamino was lucky. There are too many Japanese players in Europe, and in the United Kingdom alone, there are Kenhiro Fuan, Hitsuhashi Fubashi and Shina Iwabuchi (Arsenal women's football team) who have been crazy for more than a month.
In the AFC's weekly best foreign stay, there are always Japanese players selected, but Takumi Minamino has never appeared on this list. Takumi Minamino still has time, and Japan's players after 97 years have not established much in Europe. Once this group of players grows up, he who can't play at Liverpool may really become an Asian buddy.
With Takumi Minamino's performance today, in the liverpool and Arsenal match more than 20 days later, he may only be able to watch his compatriot Kenyo Fuan perform off the field.
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