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Japan coach Okada blasts Scotland no-shows

Saturday 10th October, 05:20 AM JST

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spudman at 09:20 AM JST - 10th October

Now we don’t care who we are playing against, we are just going to worry about ourselves.’’

So STFU and give them a 10-nil hiding otherwise you just sound like a whining soresport.
stealth_one at 05:07 PM JST - 10th October

Why send your best when you are not even in the WC ?
mikihouse at 05:49 PM JST - 10th October

Why send your best when you are not even in the WC

because japan is paying airfare, accommodation and logistics?
bobobolinski at 06:56 PM JST - 10th October

Probably not the fault of the Scottish management. The professional clubs these players are contracted to are very unlikely to allow players to travel such a distance and risk injury for no real purpose. Man U particularly are notorious for having players report injured for international friendly matches, who then recover for the next Premiership match. Tough on Japan, but they should have seen it coming.
Jbizzle at 07:09 PM JST - 10th October

Japan has to get it's game up for other countries to send their best.
nandakandamanda at 07:14 PM JST - 10th October

Don't like the way they all pulled out at the last moment like that. Leaves a bad taste. I sincerely hope they have apologized, individually if possible...
spudman at 09:38 PM JST - 10th October

Japan played boring usual pass around the box soccer again. They lack a real killer of a striker. Boring game with a Scottish goal the only difference between the sides, Okada looked like a pigeon had crapped on him and pissed him off.
nandakandamanda at 11:42 PM JST - 10th October

Thought it was a good game, but the unashamedly and heavily biased Japanese commentary was sickening to listen to.
kenchan at 07:12 AM JST - 11th October

nanda> u should have heard the unbelievably biased and near racist commentary on BBC scotland....comments like "Abe felt that KARATE chop didn't he"....

Spud> did u watch the wrong game? btw japan won 2-0...scotland didn't score and didn't get near the Japanese box. The scots were pathetic.
nandakandamanda at 09:47 AM JST - 11th October

kenchan, point taken. But at least the Scots commentators knew Abe's name.

I thought many of the Scots were individually good, with some of them making massive efforts to go after the Japanese and force them to give up the ball, despite their jetlag. Older players probably wouldn't have bothered. The main problem was that Scotland have not yet formed any teamwork, whereas that is the great strength of the Japanese.
kenchan at 04:22 PM JST - 11th October

nanda> agreed on the scottish performance. I'm not sure what burley actually gained from fielding this 2nd string side. If he wanted to test some new players in his 1st choice squad then he must allow them to play with the bulk of the 1st team....this reminds me of sven goran and england.

Also, did I hear right that okada is aiming to get the semis of the world cup? Stretch targets are good but he needs to be realistic! Top 8 should be the teams goal and that itself would be hard given past world cup performances.
ratpack at 09:28 AM JST - 16th October

Well scotland are ranked 10 places higher than japan on the fifa rankings...so now their stars are out it should be even stevens. No excuses now if japan don't win hey!!!