Japan, who beat New Zealand, meet Spain in the semifinals

Japan, who beat New Zealand, meet Spain in the semifinals.
Reuters

The Japan national team Tokyo will face Spain in the semi-finals of the 2020 football tournament, overcoming adversity, New Zealand, Before that he had to resort to a penalty shoot-out after finishing the game and got extra time without goals.

Hajim Moryasu’s team defeated Mexico, South Africa and France in the group stage, beating the restricted New Zealand team and their goalkeeper. Michael Wood thwarted all attempts that came his way.

The ‘All Whites’, who passed surprisingly after finally drawing 0-0 against Romania, proved to be a real deterrent, supportive and dangerous when the host team was able to reach the goal. If Maya had not mediated under Yoshida’s permission, she would have been able to win in extra time.

Japan had a joint proposal than New Zealand, as expected, more ball possession, more visits and more shots (8/21), but he did not win. If Vattaru Endo had scored in ten minutes, the scenery might have changed, but he was out in a better situation.

Real Madrid player Tag Kubo was still very active one day. He helped his teammates and was more of a finisher, though not as accurate. It was troublesome, but it did not detract from the balance of the well-armed ‘Kiwi’ box.

Thus, the game went into extra time, in which both had some dangerous visits but no goals. But the result was the same, so the pass was played on penalties, in which the Japanese were more accurate than their rivals.

Japan scored all their shots, while Kochi Danny saved the shot by Liberto Caucasus and Clayton Lewis.. Yoshida led the Asian team to the final, 4-2, in Spain.

Datasheet:

0 – Japan: Tani, Hashioka, Yoshida, Tomiyasu, Hatate (Mitoma, m.91), Endo, Tanaka (Itakura, m.91), Doan (Miyoshi, m.106), Kubo, Soma (Nakayama, m.69) and Hayashi ( Ueda, m.69)

0 – New Zealand: Wood, Stennes, Reed (McWatt, m.51), Bijnacker, Elliott (Ingam, m.79), Corbett (Just, m.79), Bell, Lewis, Caesus, Wayne (Champnus, m.84) y Wood.

Referee: Ismail Elfat (USA). He advised New Zealand’s Bell, Stennes, Carpet and Caucasus; And the Japanese Tomias and Miyoshi.

Incidents: bThe quarterfinals were held at the Ibraki Kashima Stadium. Penalty Shoot-out: Wood and McWatt score for New Zealand. For Japan, they scored with Ude, Idakura, Nakayama and Yoshida.