Costa Ricawhich many gave for evicted after being beaten by Spain (7-0) in the first gameresurfaced this Sunday and defeated Japanthanks to a goal from Keysher Fullerin a match corresponding to the second day of the Group E of the World Cup in Qatar 2022.
Behind the hecatomb against Spainthe Costa Rican coach, Luis Fernando Suarez, launched a message urging resilience. “We are not dead”warned the Colombian. And he was right. Because in a match in which Japan dominated more, the ‘ticos’ they added three points and they will play the pass to the second round in the last match, against Germany.
The Colombian Luis Fernando Suárez brought on Kendall Waston y a Gerson Torres as the two novelties with respect to last Wednesday, against Spain, falling off the ‘eleven’ Jewison Bennette and Carlos Martinez.
Japan, with its left side, the veteran Yuko Nagatomowho is playing his fourth final phase in the tournament and only held out for the first half, nevertheless broke the record for caps in a World Cup with Japan; it went electric though It was soon diluted by the effective Costa Rican defense in an intense but not very attractive first half.
It was soon seen that Costa Rica had recovered his pulse after the shipwreck against the Luis Enrique’s Spain, who had inflicted her most severe defeat in a World Cup. sorted back, they contained the japanese attackwhich was reduced to timid internees from the right of Doan y de Yamanewithout excessive danger.
The second part completely changed the gamewhich made it more dynamic. Hiroki Ito entered for Nagatomo and Asano for Ueda; and the Japanese launched themselves in a whirlwind on the goal of Keylorwhich disrupted two actions of Morita and Asano himself In the first five minutes.
A foul on the edge of the penalty area Borges a Endoit became a new occasion that Soma launched over the goal of Keylor. A few minutes later, at 70, he saw the yellow Costaby entry to It’s Junyawho had entered Doan shortly before.
In only one of the 28 games that he did, Costa Rica lost when Campbell scoreswho was very active, on the left wing, at the beginning; and alternating right with center later. Campbell did not score, but it opened many holes; and he did in the 80th minute, Fuller, who enabled Yeltsin Tejeda with a great pass and who surprised Gonda to open the scoring.
Moriyasu dio entrada a su ’10’, Minamino right after the goal. The blue samurai launched themselves into a whirlwind against Keylor’s goal, but Costa Rica endured and refused to pack.
