Japan beat South Korea 3-0 to assert soccer bragging rights

Miki Yamane scored on his debut to provide Japan the lead within the seventeenth minute, earlier than Daichi Kamada added a second 10 minutes later and Wataru Endo notched a late third.

Japan’s Miki Yamane (C) scores a aim throughout a pleasant soccer match in opposition to South Korea. AFP

Japan beat South Korea — minus Son Heung-min — 3-0 on Thursday to assert bragging rights within the first soccer pleasant between the 2 rivals in 10 years.

Miki Yamane scored on his debut to provide Japan the lead within the seventeenth minute, earlier than Daichi Kamada added a second 10 minutes later and Wataru Endo notched a late third.

Tottenham Hotspur ahead Son was pulled from Korea’s squad and didn’t journey to Japan, after membership boss Jose Mourinho complained that the participant was referred to as up whereas injured.

Japan’s Takumi Minamino began the match regardless of Southampton supervisor Ralph Hasenhuttl protesting that it was “nonsense” for his participant to journey for worldwide obligation in the course of the pandemic.

The end result gave the Samurai Blue a win of their first house recreation since November 2019, and an honest exercise earlier than they resume their World Cup qualifying marketing campaign in opposition to Mongolia on Tuesday.

The sport between the 2002 World Cup co-hosts was performed in near-total silence amid coronavirus restrictions, with the 8,300 followers within the cavernous Nissan Stadium banned from cheering.

However that did not cease Japan from flying out the blocks, with full-back Yamane latching onto Yuya Osako’s back-heeled flick to smash house the opener with lower than 20 minutes gone.

Eintracht Frankfurt striker Kamada then doubled Japan’s lead within the twenty seventh minute, striding ahead with the ball earlier than lashing it previous Korean goalkeeper Jo Hyeon-woo.

And Endo made it three within the 83rd minute, rising highest at a nook to plant house a header and seal a powerful win for Japan.

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