Japan vs Costa Rica

I had high hopes for this Japan team but when I saw the group with Germany and Spain it was quite obvious, if Japan wants to advance to the next round they will need to beat Germany or Spain in one of those two games or getting two draws and they already made the most difficult part, they beat Germany by 2:1. About that game, Germany dominated they first half, Japan showed too much respect to them and were very lucky to be only down by 1:0, Germany could have been easily leading by 2 or 3:0 at that time but in the 2nd half everything changed, yes, Germany came out strong and had chances to score the 2:0 but when Japan Coach made changes in the team and putting more offensive players Japan got way better and in the end managed to make the big surprise and beat Germany by 2:1. Was that win deserved, well, in many cases we can say it wasn't but on the other side when a Coach makes changes and everything works out and Japan scores two goals we can't say that they don't deserved that win too but the most important part of that win is that a win here will put them in the knock-out stages and Japan most take care of this amazing chance.

Costa Rica was clearly the weak link in this group and the first game was prove of that, they lost 0:7 against Spain and believe me, Spain ain't that monster of a team in my opinion the reason is that this Costa Rica team ain't the same team from the past, this is not their golden generation that they had a couple years ago, only Navas and Campbell are there still and to be fair, they both looked awful in that game too. Costa Rica in the whole game wasn't able to do nothing on the field, no shots, 18% ball possession and basically they only were running after the ball and seeing the goals going in and now they will face a team who has similiar qualities that Spain has and I expect them to struggle big time once again here.

For Japan it's very simple, win here and you advance to the knock out stages and they have the perfect squad to beat this Costa Rica team. Collective Japan is a very strong team with a lot of quality and who play really well together and have a lot of similiar things that Spain has what makes Japan a bad match-up for Costa Rica again and one of the worst news that we saw in that Spain game is that Goalkeeper Keylor Navas isn't the same goalkeeper from the past anymore because he was the only hope that Costa Rica had in this group to somehow make a point or win a game but he looked awful in the Spain game, many of those goals he was badly beat and it was clear he ain't the same player that he was. So, I expect Japan to control this game from the start to finish like Spain has done with Costa Rica, this Costa Rica squad is really poor and has nothing to do with their past generation where they had a lot of talent, the talent isn't their anymore and on the other side we have a very good Japan team who plays really well together with a lot of nice players who is coming of an amazing win against Germany and who knows that they only need to beat Costa Rica here to advance the group and I believe they will have no problem to beat Costa Rica by 2:0 or 3:0, maybe Costa Rica will score on a set piece play but besides that I really doubt they will have many chances to score but Japan should have no issues to create amazing scoring chances against them.

Good Luck

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日本vs哥斯达黎加

我对日本队寄予厚望，但当我看到与德国和西班牙同组的情况时，我就很清楚，如果日本队想晋级下一轮，他们需要在这两场比赛中击败德国或西班牙，或者取得两场平局，他们已经完成了最困难的部分，他们以2:1击败了德国。关于那场比赛,德国主导他们上半年,日本表现出太多的尊重他们,很幸运只是下降了1:0,德国就可以轻松领先2或握在那个时间,但下半年一切都变了,是的,德国出来强大和有机会进球2:0的但当日本教练团队的变化和日本将更多的进攻球员更好,最后设法使大惊喜,2:1击败德国。这场胜利值得吗?嗯，在很多情况下我们可以说不值得，但在另一方面，当教练做出改变，一切顺利，日本队进了两球时，我们不能说他们不值得赢得这场胜利，但这场胜利最重要的部分是，一场胜利将使他们进入淘汰赛阶段，日本队基本上把握住了这个绝佳的机会。

哥斯达黎加显然是这个群体中最薄弱的环节,第一场比赛证明,他们失去了0:7对阵西班牙,相信我,西班牙不是怪物的一个团队在我看来原因是这哥斯达黎加队不是相同的过去,这不是他们的黄金一代,他们几年前,只有允许和坎贝尔有仍和公平地说,在那场比赛都显得很糟糕。哥斯达黎加整场比赛在场上什么都没做，没有射门，18%的控球率，基本上他们只是追着球跑，看着球进，现在他们将面对一支和西班牙有相似实力的球队，我预计他们会在这里再次挣扎。

对日本队来说，这很简单，只要在这里获胜，就能进入淘汰赛阶段，他们拥有击败哥斯达黎加队的完美阵容。集体日本是一个非常强大的团队有很多质量和谁一起玩的很好,有很多类似的事情,西班牙已经让日本再次坏相配哥斯达黎加,最糟糕的一个消息,我们看到在比赛,西班牙门将凯勒允许不是同一门将从过去了因为他是唯一希望哥斯达黎加在这组以某种方式做一个点或赢得比赛,但他在西班牙的比赛,看起来很糟糕很多进球他都被击败了，很明显他已经不是以前的那个球员了。所以，我希望日本队能控制这场比赛从头到尾，就像西班牙队控制哥斯达黎加队一样。这支哥斯达黎加队真的很差劲，和他们的上一代毫无关系，他们有很多天才。另一方面，我们有一支非常优秀的日本队，他们配合得非常好，有很多优秀的球员，他们在对阵德国的比赛中取得了惊人的胜利，他们知道他们只需要在这里击败哥斯达黎加就能小组出线，我相信他们以2:0或3:0击败哥斯达黎加是没有问题的。也许哥斯达黎加会通过定位球得分，但除此之外，我真的怀疑他们会有很多进球机会，但日本应该没有问题，在对阵他们时创造惊人的进球机会。

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