Match Analysis - Germany vs Japan

This World Cup is known to be the World Cup of Uncertainty. Here, weak teams are defeating stronger teams. Compare the Argentina match with the Saudi Arabia match. The green falcons from the Middle East defeated the men from South America. In this manner, the boys from the rising sun defeated the four-time world cup champions in their matches against Germany and Japan.

We will dive into the key stats of the match:

Germany primarily attacked from the left wing, with wonder-kid Jamal Musiala making his World Cup debut and German Beckham David Raum attacking.

In the case of Japan, they attacked the most from the right side through Junya Ito and Hiroki Sakai, keeping the German defence at bay with their attacks.

Both teams started with a 4-2-3-1 formation. Japan changed their formation from their 4-2-3-1 formation to 3-4-3 as a part of its tactical change, which generated more attacks. which saw his team beat Germany for the first time. From the heatmap, we can see that Germany attacked mainly from the left wing and down the middle. The bright spot indicates that.

Japan, on the other hand, had most of its actions in the defensive half and going forward. They had most of their actions in the form of defensive duels, passes made, and saves made. The bright spot indicates that.

Germany made a total of 803 passes, while Japan made a total of 286 passes. The heatmap shows where these both teams made the most passes. Germany distributed its pass all over the pitch, with an inclination towards the left(bright spot).

While Japan had most passes concentrated on the right side of the pitch. In the heatmap, we can see that they had distributed passes on the right side of the pitch, mostly in the defensive third(bright spot) and on the right attacking third of the pitch.