World Cup Analysis/Germany's 'Piglet' Loses To Japan: Things Always Happen in The Last 30 Minutes

"Japan can beat Germany," Takeshi Okada, the former head coach of Japan's two-time World Cup team, said in a bold statement ahead of the Group E soccer match between Germany and Japan at 8 a.m. Est on Wednesday. Legendary German midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger also admitted in an interview with German media that "Germany could lose to Japan."

Okada believes there is not much difference between Japan and Germany this time. "Unlike in the past, the World Cup started a week after the European league was interrupted, and we started to build the team a month earlier, so Japan will do better this time."

"Germany always play badly in the last 30 minutes of a game, so they can't attack or defend against the world's best teams. The recent 1-0 loss to Hungary was an example, if you don't focus on the counter-attack, you can lose control of the game, and the first World Cup game against Japan is likely to happen again. "

"We don't have a central striker or midfielder, and there are also problems at the back. Flick has to find a way to do that, no matter how the players are or how they are playing, with the best on-field command."