Oly Whites vs Japan | Saturday 31st July | 9.00pm | Kashima, Japan

Bad things happen when I watch 

mikecj

Bad things happen when I watch 

Fudge off then please kindly.

Whatever happens I think we have been the better team

I can’t not watch!

That shot scared me

AlfStamp

Whatever happens I think we have been the better team

Objectively Japan have been better, but we're not also rans. Japan are playing against us with a sharkload of respect, and if we did win it wouldn't be underserved.

AlfStamp

Whatever happens I think we have been the better team

 Can’t agree. We’ve been better than we’ve played before but theyve had a couple of excellent shots on goal

Poor from Champness 

I think we got this to be fair. 

Whatever happens i'm super proud of how we played.

Death strikes 

HERE WE GO!

LETS GO KIWIS!!! 

Death strikes!!
C'mon lads, we've got this!

Loved seeing Hay with Woud there :)

Well I think it's fair to say that in international football we have got to to another level with this generation of players. We've done it before as at the South Africa WC, the under 20s etc. Good to see whatever happens. I have pessimism about penalty shootouts though. Hopefully proven wrong very soon.

Cant watch!

YUSSSSSS

Come on Would, be our hero.

The Japanese keeper didn't even need to extend his arms there smh

Noooo. 

damn!

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We're falling to pieces

Oh fa fuc

We’re fudgeed

Our lack of pen experience coming home to roost.

Fuuudge

Gutted for the lads. Some high level pressure at the end there.

Japs celebrating like they won the game. Wtf? 

damn

knuts!

Poor choices in Lewis and Cacace. Not natural goal scorers. 
Still- we saw Champness and Just in regular time. That was our best chance, some poor protection of possession, a couple of helpful decisions and we just weren’t composed with the PKs.

You couldn't have taken worse penalties. So bad.

Dam. Poor penalties but otherwise stellar performance. Done well boys. 

Pain...
Absolutely heartbreaking

Bugger.  Young team don't expect them to be great at pen shoot outs.

Some of those Japanese strikes were hanging.

Team did good.  Team did better than good.

Tis what tis

Well, so much hope for the future.

Hold your head high boys. You've given them a real run for. Their money. They were always favourites and many believed the game would be over before the end of the first half. We matched then and had some really good chances to even win it. The future is bright and you've done NZ proud