2024-01-19T14:22:16+00:00
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/ Today, Friday, Iraqi national team coach Jesus Casas expressed his happiness over the victory over the Japanese national team in the second match of the Asian Cup.
Casas said in a statement to the beIN Sports channel, followed by Agency, “I always say that we have great players, and this is the reason for the changes I made in the Japan match from the first match with Indonesia in the Asian Cup.”
Regarding the Japan match, the coach explained, “In the second half we played defensively, and the Japanese team is very good, and we wanted to have the ball in our possession, and this is impossible against the Japanese team.”
The Iraqi national team won over its Japanese counterpart with a score of 2-1 in the second round of the fourth group of the Asian Football Cup. With this victory, Iraq topped the fourth group with six points, while the player Ayman Hussein won the best player award in the match after scoring two goals in the match.