Japan coach: We will learn from the lessons of the past to overtake Croatia

Hajime Moriyasu, coach of the Japanese national football team, said that the team should benefit from the lessons of the past to achieve a positive result against its Croatian counterpart and qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup currently being held in Qatar.

The Japanese national team, which is participating in the World Cup finals for the seventh time and has never gone beyond the round of sixteen, will meet its Croatian counterpart tomorrow, Monday, at Al Janoub Stadium in the round of sixteen.

The Japanese national team had qualified for the round of sixteen from the top of Group E, with two victories over Germany 2/1, Spain 2/1, and a defeat against Costa Rica 0/1.

The Japanese national team, which reached the World Cup round of 16 three times, the last of which was in the 2018 edition, is looking forward to qualifying for the quarter-finals for the first time.

Moriyasu said about the elimination of the Japanese national team by his Belgian counterpart in the round of sixteen in the 2018 edition: “In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the team was trying to overcome the barrier of the round of sixteen, and I believe that the team did everything it could and deserved to qualify for the quarter-finals, but lost .”

He added in the press conference held today: "There was great annoyance and frustration following the exit from the tournament at that time (with a defeat against Belgium 2/3), but that experience was very important."

And he continued: “Now we can reflect what we learned from the lessons from those matches in this current version. I think we learned a lesson from the previous World Cup … We have a long history of participation in the World Cup and we have accumulated experiences in such matches, and we must learn and draw lessons.” From all the matches we played to reflect in our match tomorrow, we will rely on our experience from the past to move forward in this tournament."

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