© Getty Images Vahid Halilhodzic has stressed that Japan must find an out-and-out goal-scorer and urged his players to develop greater fighting spirit like Europeans. Five players have been on target for the Samurai Blue in their five Group B games in Asian qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, but only one, Hertha Berlin attacker Genki Haraguchi, has netted more than once.
“Right now, we’re getting goals from various positions: from centre-back, from midfield, from the forwards,” said Halilhodzic. “It’s a good thing, but what I want is a pure, out-and-out goal-scorer. Someone who can take the one or two chances he may or may not have in a game.
“I must find this type of player – or develop one, somehow. Every good team has one, a player who finds a way to score not just when he is on a roll, but also when the tide is against him.
“It’s possible to develop good strikers and good goalkeepers, and it’s critical that you do. All the best countries have good players at these impo..
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