Local media reported on the 23rd that after Korea won the Korea-Japan match at the Asian Cup, where qualification for the Paris Olympics was at stake, voices in Japan were worried about advancing to Olympic finals.
The national U-23 football team led by coach Hwang Seon-hong defeated Japan in the third final match of Group B of the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Asian Cup last will be held at the Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar on the 22nd. . They will face Group A runners-up Indonesia in the quarter-finals.
Japan, who advanced to the semi-finals second in their group, will face Qatar, first in Group A. Qatar is ahead of Indonesia in terms of goal power and the home advantage he also hosted.
In this competition, in which 16 countries participated, only those ranked in the top three will advance to the finals. The 4th place team must play a playoff against Guinea, the 4th place team in the African regional qualifiers, and win to advance to the Olympics.
In response to this, Japanese media outlet Nikan Sports said that Qatar is at a disadvantage because it has one more day off than Japan until the quarter-finals, and there are voices expressing concern about this. on social media.
Nikan Sports reported that some netizens are expressing concern on social media about Japan’s progress to the Olympics, saying things like “We won’t be able to beat Qatar” and “This is the worst development.”
However, there were also good comments from netizens, such as ‘You just have to beat Qatar’ and ‘You can beat Qatar as long as you don’t make strange decisions.’
Japanese media’s Spanish Supplement assessed the loss in the Korea-Japan match as a ‘trial for the Paris Olympics’ and said, “The Japanese U-23 national team, which aims to participate in the 8th Olympics, lost consecutively, to the Korean national team. and was determined to finish second in Group B. “The opponent in the quarter-finals is the host country, Qatar, a difficult opponent who showed great power in Group A.”
Meanwhile, Korean football has advanced to the Olympic finals nine times in a row, starting with the 1988 Seoul Olympics and ending with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. This is a world record for the most consecutive Olympic events.
Japan’s national team coach, Go Oiwa, said after the match against Korea, “I’m not happy with the loss. But this is not the end game. We are doing according to our plan. “We lost this game, but we will prepare well for the next game,” he said.
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2024-04-23 11:24:20
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