Nice one, football I think is best enjoyed with banter, it is weirdly different to other sports I have found, not sure why exactly.
As for the game, Japan were probably the slightly better side, especially for most of the second half and our goal was incredibly lucky. Reminded me of a goal West Ham scored in the FA Cup final against Liverpool a few years ago...
link here (whole thing is probably worth a watch. I am a massive and life long west ham fan and fuck. Crushing)
Japan is quick,
but that is kinda made worse by the fact our central defensive pairing are perhaps 2 of the slowest going around... we played quite a deep line against them to prevent any major damage and I thought they did a pretty good job all things told.
Surprising for mine was the fact we actually passed the ball around and made some really good inroads doing so! Was really nice to see instead of just lumping it long to Cahill or something.
Overall pretty good, leaves the table looking like this...
Code:
Team MP W D L GF GA Pts
Japan 7 4 2 1 15 5 14
Oman 7 2 3 2 7 9 9
Aus 6 1 4 1 7 7 7
Jordan 6 2 1 3 6 12 7
Iraq 6 1 2 3 4 6 5