Gruop H
Japan
Belgium
Russia
Tunisia
fixtures:
4 June: Japan - Belgium (Saitama)
5 June: Russia - Tunisia (Kobe)
9 June: Japan - Russia (Yokohama)
10 June: Tunisia - Belgium (Dika)
14 June: Tunisia - Japan (Osaka)
Belgium - Russia (Shizuoka)
(will come with the full squad lists and my analysis shortly, sorry for the delay)
Belgium have proven to be a stable team and having good defensive players.
The win against France at Friendlys will give them confidence and, though I think Russia will top this group and Belgium will be 2nd.
Japan is a good team with fighting spirit, but still lots to improve a lot.
Maybe in some years they'll be even able to qualify for next rounds.
And with some surprising play, maybe even at WC 2002.
“WatCh youR tHoughtS; they become words.
WatCh youR wOrdS; they become actions.
WatCh youR aCtiOns; they become habits.
WatCh youR hAbiTs; they become character.
WatCh youR chaRactEr; it becomes your dEsTinY."
I'd see Russia and Belgium advancing from here. I don't think the Japanese have any chances this time, but watch out for Tunisia. Their team isn't bad either.
Umer, the Pakistani Brain of Austria
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Originally posted by Umer:
**I'd see Russia and Belgium advancing from here. I don't think the Japanese have any chances this time, but watch out for Tunisia. Their team isn't bad either.
**
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belgium is a certainty ..
and Russia couldbe 2nd ..but I think Japan can make surprise here.
1.) Belgium
2.) Japan
3.) Russia
4.) Tunisia
here are the selections:
Japan:
1 KAWAGUCHI Yoshikatsu (GK)
2 AKITA Yutaka
3 MATSUDA Naoki
4 MORIOKA Ryuzo
5 INAMOTO Junichi
6 HATTORI Toshihiro
7 NAKATA Hidetoshi
8 MORISHIMA Hiroaki
9 NISHIZAWA Akinori
10 NAKAYAMA Masashi
11 SUZUKI Takayuki
12 NARAZAKI Seigo (GK)
13 YANAGISAWA Atsushi
14 ALEX
15 FUKUNISHI Takashi
16 NAKATA Koji
17 MIYAMOTO Tsuneyasu
18 ONO Shinji
19 OGASAWARA Mitsuo
20 MYOJIN Tomokazu
21 TODA Kazuyuki
22 ICHIKAWA Daisuke
23 SOGAHATA Hitoshi (GK)
Russia:
1 NIGMATULLIN Ruslan (GK)
2 KOVTUN Yuri
3 NIKIFOROV Yuri
4 SMERTIN Alexei
5 SOLOMATIN Andrei
6 SEMSHOV Igor
7 ONOPKO Viktor
8 KARPIN Valery
9 TITOV Egor
10 MOSTOVOI Alexandr
11 BESCHASTNYKH Vladimir
12 CHERCHESOV Stanislav (GK)
13 DAEV Viacheslav
14 CHUGAINOV Igor
15 ALENICHEV Dmitry
16 KERZHAKOV Alexander
17 SEMAK Sergei
18 SENNIKOV Dmitri
19 PIMENOV Ruslan
20 IZMAILOV Marat
21 KHOKHLOV Dmitry
22 SYCHEV Dmitri
23 FILIMONOV Aleksander
Belgium:
1 DE VLIEGER Geert (GK)
2 DEFLANDRE Eric
3 DE BOECK Glen
4 VAN MEIR Eric
5 VAN KERCKHOVEN Nico
6 SIMONS Timmy
7 WILMOTS Marc
8 GOOR Bart
9 SONCK Wesley
10 WALEM Johan
11 VERHEYEN Gert
12 VAN DER HEYDEN Peter
13 VANDENDRIESSCHE Franky (GK)
14 VERMANT Sven
15 PEETERS Jacky
16 VAN BUYTEN Daniel
17 ENGLEBERT Gaetan
18 VANDERHAEGHE Yves
19 THIJS Bernd
20 STRUPAR Branko
21 BOFFIN Danny
22 MPENZA Mbo
23 HERPOEL Frederic (GK)
Tunisia:
1 BOUMNIJEL Ali (GK)
2 BADRA Khaled
3 BAYA Zoubeir
4 MKACHER Mohamed
5 JAZIRI Ziad
6 TRABELSI Hatem
7 MHADHEBI Imed
8 GABSI Hassen
9 JELASSI Riadh
10 GHODHBANE Kaies
11 SELLIMI Adel
12 BOUZAINE Raouf
13 BOUAZIZI Riadh
14 MARZOUKI Hamdi
15 JAIDI Radhi
16 BEJAOUI Hassen (GK)
17 THABET Tarek
18 BEN ACHOUR Slim
19 MKADEMI Emir
20 ZITOUNI Ali
21 MELKI Mourad
22 JAOUACHI Ahmed (GK)
23 CLAYTON
I would expect Belgium and Japan progressing to the next round!
1) Japan
2) Belgium
3) Tunisia
4) Russia
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Originally posted by ShiNoO:
1) Japan
2) Belgium
3) Tunisia
4) Russia
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Japan topping the group.
Thats a bit optimistic.
finally today the group H matches!
had to fetch this thread from I don’t know where
I have seen players getting a red card for silly tackles and bad challenges, but what about a referee who makes bad decisions and disallows a clear cut chance and even a goal.
For me Japan has won the game with 3 - 2 the disallowed goal by the referee was a very pure decision and the referee should get a red card from the FIFA Officials for this.
The most dissapointing referee not just coz of this but many other bad decision he made.
Final Score:
Japan 2 - 2 Belgium
And as I predicted Japan played very well. A very exciting match.
“WatCh youR tHoughtS; they become words.
WatCh youR wOrdS; they become actions.
WatCh youR aCtiOns; they become habits.
WatCh youR hAbiTs; they become character.
WatCh youR chaRactEr; it becomes your dEsTinY."
i fully agree with u ali
Go on Tunisia!!! Let's get all of the gunshup members surprise. What is happening? Is not there anyone here who does not give a change to Tunisia. The final match will be among moonstars he he......
Japan and South korea..the two teams with an electrifying speed that could be a big factor of their success.
I saw Japan vs belgium and boy oh boy the japenese were daaam fast and everyone possesed a great stamina but they lacked height and built which might obstruct their unimaginable goals. The belgiums ,on other hand, were strong,professional and successfully did exploit their opponent's weekness but seemed to lack the speed and stamina.
Goal of the tournament was by Eric Van Meir of Belgium, where he did that bycycle kick to score Belgium's first goal.
Sherry, you are very right. Japanese and Koreans both, possesed talent enough to in games, yet the build and agressiveness was not in them.
If you guys saw Korea vs. Poland, you must have noticed the 6'3" guys, towering over the little Koreans. But the Koreans showed them off too.
A cheap mistake by goalkeeper, a cheap penalty and.....
RUSSIA-TUNUSIA:2-0
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Originally posted by Peoples Champ:
Goal of the tournament was by Eric Van Meir of Belgium, where he did that bycycle kick to score Belgium's first goal.
Sherry, you are very right. Japanese and Koreans both, possesed talent enough to in games, yet the build and *agressiveness was not in them. *
If you guys saw Korea vs. Poland, you must have noticed the 6'3" guys, towering over the little Koreans. But the Koreans showed them off too.
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Thats not true PC, the South Koreans crushed the Pols in every aspect, even in aggressivness. They don't have the build (I do agree on that), but they were hell of agrressive and even had won the direct challenges in the air, even when lacking of height.
THey are more stable than the JAPANESE
“WatCh youR tHoughtS; they become words.
WatCh youR wOrdS; they become actions.
WatCh youR aCtiOns; they become habits.
WatCh youR hAbiTs; they become character.
WatCh youR chaRactEr; it becomes your dEsTinY."
OMG OMG OMG!!! JAPAN TOPS THE TABLE with the 1 - 0 win over Russia.
I just can’t believe it. Shino what can I say.
They really deserved it well done JAPAN
http://www3.pak.org/gupshup/smilies/ok.gif
!!!
“WatCh youR tHoughtS; they become words.
WatCh youR wOrdS; they become actions.
WatCh youR aCtiOns; they become habits.
WatCh youR hAbiTs; they become character.
WatCh youR chaRactEr; it becomes your dEsTinY."
what a weird first half.
Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest ~ Quran XIII.28
Wow! Another fantastic upset! This world cup is sooooo exciting! Absolutely impossible to predict any results!
Umer, the Pakistani Brain of Austria
** Belgium 1 Tunisia 1**
Belgium will find it very difficult to qualify for the last 16 now.