How Japan Solved Tournament Football, And Why It's Changing Football Forever

You left out an important factor when discussing "why havent we seen this before". The missing link is the five-sub rule.
With five substitutes per game, it is possible to plan strategies that involve a dramatic change in shape, tactics and personnel, at the most crucial point in a contest., If you look at both the Germany and Spain matches, Japan used its fifth sub with more than ten minutes on the clock, and the first four subs all came quickly, at the turning point in the contest. This is something that Moriyasu has been working on for at least the past year. It is a high-risk - high-reward philosophy that the other teams have yet to really comprehend.

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This tactical should bring to malaysia squad

I like how Japan built the football squad

Its very sad to see Japan lose on penalties. Bery harsh.

Now what Japan needs is an individual goal scorer and practice penalties(im serious btw)

The Asian game and players are evolving. This was happening over the past few decades. Their leagues have improved their players are getting bigger contracts. Everyone was looking at the Afican players and teams but although they have flair strength and creativity. The Asians have excellent technique they have a perfect command of the basics they are supremely conditioned very disciplined very tactical very good individual football IQ and they play the game at breakneck speed.

ur analysis was described by a commentator here in peru everyone of his experts football colleagues laughed at him and he was right beat both giants. Everyone was quiet after.

It is possible due to the blue lock plan

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Korea vs Japan China National Team (Total Match Wins and Goals)

Korea 42 wins 92 goals
Japan 16 wins 33 goals
Korea 21 wins 41 goals
China 2 wins 4 goals

U14~U23 Korea vs Japan China National Team (Total Match Wins and Goals)

Korea 75 wins 193 goals
Japan 25 wins 61 goals
Koera 74 wins 84 goals
China 25 wins 20 goals

All Total

Korea 212 wins 410 goals
Japan +China 68 wins 118 goals

blue rock is real

I think expected ELO of the second-place qualifier is a better measure than average ELO of the difficulty of a group. Measuring it that way, there are probably significantly fewer than 13 historical groups harder than this group. For example, when measuring in this way (and using second-highest rated participant as an approximation for expected ELO of second-place qualifier, which should be a good approximation since the opportunity to play many qualifying games increases the likelihood of strong teams qualifying consistently), this group becomes significantly harder (with a second-highest rating of 1963) than the other group in 2022 higher on the list at number 6 (2022 Group G, with a second-highest rating of 1902).

The Japanese fans are just awesome.

Unfortunately, not many German fans showed up because the German fans were exposed to a campaign of disinformation by German associated media about the reality on the ground in Qatar. A team without fans is a team without spirit.

A lot of surprises in FWC in Qatar 2022 .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but tbh, I feel like Japan's tactics is indeed nothing new and called 'Gegenpressing.' The only new addition was the use of subbed players.

Saudi adopted very similar tactics in their shock win vs Argentina. A shock hard-press at the start of the 2nd half

森保監督は、交代枠が5人になった事による戦い方を模索する中で、この戦術をフットサルから学んだと語ってます。

Japan shut up everybody, only lost to Crotia for being "too green" playing with the big sharks but the next cup we will see the Blue Lock project materialized... 🔥

Japan were brilliant.

Germany and Spain are not very good teams.

This is the power of homogeneity vs diversity. An homogenous team that actually loves their country and national identity is able to do wonders. I say that as a brazilian. The lack of passion in our current team is reflective of our current cultural state.

Nothing new. Technically Japan are good. Physically they are poor. If you want to beat Japan just play real football. You are very naive in your comments. We have seen all this before. Japan copied this from another team . If you don’t know the name of that well known team then you should not be following football. As a person who has followed Japanese football since 1986, I can tell you this Japan team had two unfair advantages of the European sides. Do you know what they were? Study and find out. As football becomes less physical year by year teams we will see more games of weaker teams go through. I miss real football.

It’s soccer not football

To play defense and then counter-attack at blitzkrieg speed once you have the ball in possession takes enormous skill. The weaker team usually cannot pull this off because they don't have forward that can score a goal with high successful rate. Basically, Argentina uses this tactic to score over France in the final. The 2nd goal they scored against France is a textbook example in counterattack. Just three passes traverse the whole length of the soccer field. They could do that because they have Messi. BTW, the 2022 final is once in a lifetime final because world cup final is usually boring to death when both teams played super cautiously. Morrocco also played counterattack nicely, but they lack the forward that can put the ball into the net. This was the case when they played against France. In the game where Japan played against Germany, the second goal Japan scored is world class. The angle to score is so narrow that it takes player like Neymar to score. You don't expect team like Japan to score such a goal. Yet they managed to do just that. The fact is, to beat a world class team, you need counterattack at blitzkrieg speed. It is much harder to defense when everything is on the move. Simple as that. The fact that France lost to Argentina is because they could not do that to Argentina and Argentina could do that to France. It takes two Mbappe to pull that off but unfortunately, France only got one Mbappe in the team.

A lot of people compare their results to 2004 Greece, but I beg to differ. 2004 Greece resorted to their phyisical strength, height. Japan deosn't have the height, instead they have the pace and stamina. Look at Maeda's stats in the match against Spain. Japan's tactics is to give everything they have in the first 10-20 mins of the second have after they send in their key attacking players before the other side adapts. Japan overwhelmed both Spain and Germany until the 2nd goal. As Luis Enrique said, "If Japan wanted a 3rd( or 4th) goal they could've got it". Japan has confidence in their collective defense so they decided to park a bus instead of exhausting their players.

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“how japan solved tournament(???) football” to id west and this first we need to go to world war 1! we can’t just get to the point

2 words blue lock

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The coach plans the games like war campaings thats why they won, when your rival is just reacting to what you do, you dictate the tone of the game, but sadly individually Japan needs to improve, bcs Croatia with Modric managed to be 3rd of the world cup, but nonetheless they are a force to be recognized now, a lot of teams had bad coaches and they lost their shot, like Brazil or Spain, but Japan has always seen the bigger picture, winning the world cup in the next 2 decades, probably a lot of japanese players will be transfered now, that means overall better perfomance to the next cup, they have 2 cups in a row getting to the next phase, and now they were head of their respective group, nothing but respect to them

There is no tactics it's all anime power 😂

Does that means Japan will always have advantage in these kind of cup match?

"Solved" sure, buddy

ok, so, for real... the thing "never seen before" that will "change football forever" is... a team changing formation and starting the second half on full throttle after trailing in the first half?!?
Seriously...

great video. one thing that i would nominate as a detail to add for future analysis, how 5 subs has changed modern football. having those subs allows for more tactical flexibility, and the ability for managers to change the game.

overall, great video though. great points. cheers.

I like your analysis but there's no such thing as luck in football, it's all about planning and execution. Japan did that and Won. Defence and midfield were quite spectacular but they do lack traditional striker which I hope will be solved before next wc.

They also were lucky that Germany who was the better team made horrible individual mistakes and did not defend well

spain lost on purpose

Japan have blue lock project.. carefull..

Japan should just produce world's best striker through the Blue Lock project and World Cup will be a piece of cake.

It's called soccer

I feel like Argentina's technicals and tacticals were the best this year, for the first half or for most of the game. Please do a video on that if you agree or disagree.

Just wanted to point out that this group wasn't the most difficult one at the World Cup. Group G was rated the 6th most difficult of all time. Interestingly enough three of the same teams (Brazil, Switzerland and Serbia) were also in the 11th most difficult group of all time in 2018.

Good on Japan, great play from them, but for the ytuber here, pressing Spain (tiki taka, or possion teams) is not an innovation at all. Since their Euro-WC-Euro championship run, defending and pressing is the default tactic to neutralize La Roja. If anything, its a big problem with Spain not adapting their style, that regularly confront disciplined opponents who use these tactics. Again, all credit to Japan, but ytuber here must not have watched Spain games over past years.

The team that uses a similar concept (high press) when they play against stronger teams is Newcastle United. Japan applies high press tactics in the second half but Newcastle United applies it at the start of the game. Newcastle will score first then defend the lead. Tottenham vs Newcastle (23 Oct) is a good example.

hello from Saga, Japan

Now make one on Morocco

The real answer is that they were inspired by BLUE LOCK