Confident Belgium wary of threat from Japan
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Nishino has promised a better performance than the antics in the later stages against Poland. “(Fans) were short-changed 10 minutes and they probably got a bit less mileage than usual out of the first 80,” he said. “So I want to pay people back.”
After many changes against Poland, the Samurai Blue, who have twice reached this stage but have never gone further, should revert to a lineup including captain Makoto Hasebe, Borussia Dortmund’s Shinji Kagawa and Yuya Osako up front.
It is the first big competitive test of Martinez’s two years of trying to turn a “golden generation” of individual talents with big egos at club level into a national side which can finally live up to its top-five FIFA world ranking.
With nine goals and nine points from their three group games, the Belgians are going into the final stages buzzing – and refusing to regret a win over England that leaves them in what looks a much the tougher half of the draw, which includes Brazil, France and Belgium’s World Cup nemesis Argentina.
“There’s a real belief,” the Spaniard said. “There is no margin of error… But we’re going to do what we believe in.”
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