The Japanese team overwhelmed the Peruvian team 4-1 today in a friendly match in which the ‘Blue Samurai’ once again displayed their dizzying football and took advantage of the spaces and errors of a very fragile Bicolor in defense.
The match played in Suita, Osaka, was the second of Peru’s Asian tour, after beating South Korea last Friday at home 0-1, while the Japanese entered the match after beating El Salvador 6-0 last Thursday.
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The Japanese coach, Hajime Moriyasu, left the wingers on the bench Take Kubo and Ristu Doanresponsible for most of the offensive production in the bulky victory against El Salvador.
Peru recovers Lapadula
The Peruvian coach, Juan Reynoso, for his part, recovered Gianluca Lapadula for the attack and introduced midfielders Christian Cueva and Sergio Peña from the outsetsubstitutes in the previous match.
Japan began organized in defense and showing their main weapon, the speed and mobility of their attackers, when a less solid Peru than in the clash against South Korea left them spaces, and with Junya Ito very active on the right.
The first local notice came precisely in a counterattack led by Kamada and Mitoma in the 20th minute, which ended with Sugawara’s shot cleared by an away defender.
Hiroki opens the scoring
Two minutes later, Hiroki Ito took advantage of the gap left by the Peruvian center-backs to connect a powerful shot from outside the area and tight to Gallese’s right post to open the scoring.
Peru had a good opportunity to equalize in a play between Paolo Guerrero and Lapadula after a long ball from defense, but the Cagliari striker sent his shot slightly wide to the left of the Japanese goalkeeper.
Mitoma marks the second
The locals managed to extend their advantage in another quick counterattack masterminded by Kamadand culminated by Mitoma, who cut a defender and obtained the involuntary help of another, who bounced his shot to slip through the center of the goal.
La Bicolor vehemently protested the decision of the referee of cancel a goal by Lapadul for a tight offsidea, endorsed after consulting the VAR just before the end of the first half.
reynoso introduced Christopher González, Édison Flores and Pedro Aquino at halftime looking for more freshness and offensive bite, and Peru began to have more of the ball and to hang around the Japanese area in the first section of the second half.
Japan sentences another against
But the ‘Blue Samurai’, withdrawn, continued to disturb the counterattack and penalized Peru again in this way. Mitoma received a long ball on the left, where he was alone, and put a pass into the area Junya Ito so that he had time to control and shoot before Galleseleaving the match sentenced after minute 60.
Peru brushed the goal with a long shot from Yotún that was poisoned when touching a defender and forced the Japanese goalkeeper to make an acrobatic save.
Fourth of the ‘samurais’ and Peru saves honor
The impetus of the Japanese, renewed with the entry of men like Kubo or Doan, He continued in the final stretch punishing the Peruvian defense, which also lost a ball near its goal that Maeda took advantage of to score the fourth.
The Bicolor achieved the goal of honor through Christofer Gonzales, who hunted a ball cleared by the Japanese defense to connect a left-footed shot into the net from the center of the area.
Data sheet
Japan: Nakamura; Sugawara (Soma, m.59), Taniguchi, Ko Itakura, Endo (Seko, m.80); Rei Hatate (Hatate, m.45), Hiroki Ito (Doan, m.70), Kamada (Kubo, m.70); Mitoma, Junya Ito and Furuhashi (Maeda, m.60).
Coach: Hajime Moriyasu.
Peru: Pedro Gallese; Jhilmar Lora, Marcos López, Wilder Cartagena (Jesús Castillo, m.89), Carlos Zambrano; Yoshimar Yotún (Bryan Reyna, m.72), Anderson Santamaría (Alexander Callens, m.50), Sergio Peña (Christopher Gonzales, m.46), Christian Cueva (Édison Flores, m.46); Gianluca Lapadula and Paolo Guerrero (Pedro Aquino, m.46).
Coach: Juan Reynoso.
Goals: 1-0, m.22: Endo. 2-0, m.37: Mitoma. 3-0, m.62: Junya Ito. 4-0, m.74: Maeda. 4-1, m.84: Christofer Gonzales.
Referee: Khamis Mohammed Al-Marri (Qatar). He did not show any reprimand.
Incidents: Match played at the Panasonic Stadium, in Suita (Japan), before some 40,000 spectators.
