Well Respectfully GS , I'm slightly surprised by that reaction.
Not at losing , I thought it was a big ask in short time and travel included etc.
Still it's nothing new, we've known this for sometime about our defense.
This is not an ordinary team this is Japanese champions on their home turf and our kids couldn't cut it (jmo) in the time they had which isn't surprising to me , our kids mostly V their internationals.
We're this competitive, fact scrub that we're better than them and think they know it, how many sides will hit them like we did this season?
This is the club Ange won Asian champions league with?
Yet only when our kids, too many I thought weren't up for it did our trials and tribulations in Galsgow>Portugal (2xclosed games)> Glasgow ( somebody forget their toothbrush?)
What was the point in that? Just more jet lag. Then Glasgow to Japan its a lot to ask.
I'm happy enough with what I saw, my brother thinks Osaze could be the answer, I think lawal could be but apparently so far anyway Rodgers is favouring Welsh as our back up.
I'm not sugar coating anything afore I get slated but remembering that's our 3rd game and they're onto halfway stage , at times it looked to me like they were blowing out they're ar*es more than us and that was without Kyogo.
Many lessons to take from it, but yes defence is the main area of reconstruction which is required foremost so I agree with you and POD there.
Not just the football on the park, perhaps in hindsight we should've gone there or Korea first to train and then play our tour, then finish back via Portugal, Dublin, Glasgow, I'm no expert but that imo would surely have put us in a stronger position ,fitness wise, less jetlag , less finance and more time to let the Koreans ( couldve trained there if not played) and Japanese see more of us , smaller carbon footprint aye loads to take from it .
Dislike losing but cannot call them an ordinary team because they aren't.
If they were why we buying their manager and players?
Defense and Keeper , positions to improve upon yes but not as bad as I feared tbh hoping for better against Osaka but can't forget its md3 of pre-season with plenty time for reinforcements .
Mon eh squiggly hoops HH