Japan Vs Spain: Japan offered World Cup wakeup sound in a 3-0 loss to Tunisia

Posted by World Wide Tickets And Hospitality on June 15th, 2022

Japan Vs Spain: Japan offered World Cup wakeup sound in a 3-0 loss to Tunisia

Japan has fallen to a 3-0 defeat against fellow Qatar World Cup contestants Tunisia in the final of the Kirin Cup on Tuesday, carrying an unsatisfactory end to a run of four games over 13 days. Japan, 23rd in the FIFA standings, missed several first-half odds before surrendering twice from defensive errors by captain Maya Yoshida against the 35th-ranked North Africans in front of 31,292 at a rainy Panasonic Stadium in Osaka.

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It was Tunisia's first win counter to Japan, who had won all four prior meetings, including in the 2002 Football World Cup group phase exactly 20 years ago in Osaka, when the Japan football team secured their first knockout-stage berth with a 2-0 result. Hajime Moriyasu's team had beaten Ghana 4-1 on Friday to reach the final of the four-team contest after beginning the month with a 4-1 win over Paraguay and a 1-0 loss to Brazil in friendlies.

We wanted to come away with a cup. It's an unsatisfactory result, Moriyasu said. Their finishing was scientific and that swung the game their way. Tunisia was a very good side and they had the skill to turn our faintness and blunders into chances. It was a good lesson for us ahead of the Football World Cup Finals. Tunisia, who progressed with a 2-0 win over Chile, is in progress on the front foot against Japan.

With Ferjani Sassi sending his sideways header just over the bar following a cross from the left in the fourth minute. Takumi Minamino made inroads down the left for the hosts but with no pure shots on goal following, while the guests' press led to brave instants for Japan after Yuto Nagatomo and World Cup player Wataru Endo were both trapped in control in dangerous zones. For more to know about Football World Cup TicketsClick here.

Japan Football World Cup team's first possibility went pleading in the 28th minute when Liverpool attacker Minamino failed to make clear interaction with a loose ball that fell his way from a free-kick. Junya Ito came to live past the half-hour mark, sketch a foul deep down the right and instants later sent a perfect cross to the far post, only for a spotless Daichi Kamada to rub his shot at an open goal from meters out.

Aissa Laidouni shot tamely at Japan keeper Daniel Schmidt from a Tunisian angle before Minamino presented superb control three minutes from halftime, when he corralled Ko Itakura's long ball and ended, only for the goal to be wiped out for offside. Ao Tanaka came on for Genki Haraguchi in the midfield as Japan made a sturdy start to the second half before Yoshida gave away a reckless penalty on a Tunisian attack down the right, sliding in from late and yielding a spot-kick converted by Mohamed Ali Ben Romdhane.

Kaoru Mitoma and Kyogo Furuhashi came on for Kamada and Takuma Asano on the hour spot and Mitoma, who had a goal and support against Ghana, provided plenty of crosses from the left but none leading to a shot from his Qatar FIFA World Cup team co-players. Moriyasu sent on Ritsu Doan and Takefusa Kubo in a hunt for an equalizer before Tunisia pleated their lead off another fault from Yoshida.

Tracking back calmly inside his box, the Sampdoria defender was caught uninformed from behind by Youseff Msakni, who took control and provided a cutback for Sassi to tap in. We failed to finish things off in the first half and approved from easy errors when the game was still in the balance, Yoshida said. I should not have slipped in and approved the penalty, with no hesitation crumbling our game.

Kubo sent a free-kick into the side netting as Japan pushed forward, but the unfamiliar-looking frontline was unsuccessful to create much before extra Issam Jebali hit from distance in stoppage time to rub salt into the wound. Japan will face Germany, Spain and Costa Rica in Group E in Qatar Football World Cup, while Tunisia is in Group D together with France, Denmark and Australia.

Spain football body equals financial conditions for men & women Football World Cup teams

The Spanish football federation (RFEF) on Tuesday publicised a deal to make the financial conditions of the FIFA World Cup men’s and women’s sides equal. The deal was revealed at an event held in Madrid attended by the federation chief, Luis Rubiales, and the associates of the women’s national team ahead of the upcoming UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 competition.

The RFEF said that the extras received by players on the women’s national team would be familiar to game the men’s side while their part in image rights would also be normalised and enhanced. The contract will be in place for five years, until 2027, it added. Rubiales added, that what we have closed is a contract that will last five years, which includes the next two Euros and the next two FIFA World Cups ahead of us. Also, the Olympic Games if we succeed.

Concerning bonuses, he said, it is an agreement very parallel to that of the men but with an alteration factor that we believe is more than fair. We must encourage women’s sport and we want these distances to be shortened little by little, so more and more money and more prizes come to women’s football, he added. The female players’ part of the image rights is to be raised starting this year and is projected to reach 80% by 2027, according to Rubiales.

The women’s Football World Cup team captain Irene Paredes labelled it as a “historic day.” The concession procedure has been long and as players, it was complex, but reaching an agreement of such greatness reinforces the idea and the promise of the RFEF the Spanish Football Federation with the women’s section and especially with the first team players, she said.