Keisuke Honda diminati Klub Serie A Lazio

Keisuke Honda kembali diminati klub asal Italia. Lazio diberitakan Corriere dello Sport tertarik menggaet pemain CSKA Moskva itu.

Berdasarkan pemberitaan tersebut, Lazio siap melakukan penawaran kepada CSKA. Hanya, I Biancocelesti hanya akan mencoba meminjam Honda.

Lazio menyodorkan tawaran 2 juta euro kepada CSKA untuk bisa meminjam Honda. Plus, opsi pembelian permanen pada akhir musim dengan nilai 10 juta euro.

Kendati demikian, usaha Lazio itu tampaknya akan sangat sulit disetujui CSKA. Pasalnya, raksasa Rusia itu membanderol Honda sebesar 16 juta euro.

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Going Paraguay, Japan Crying through penalty shoot-out

Paraguay won the first penalty shoot-out of the 2010 World Cup to reach the last eight for the first time and clinch a quarter-final place against either Spain or Portugal.

Gerardo Martino's team scored all five of their penalties after a disappointing match had finished goalless at the end of extra-time.
But Paraguay's joy was Japan's agony as Yuichi Komano's spot kick brushed the crossbar and flew over as the Blue Samurai's tournament came to an agonising end.
As with their opponents, Japan were bidding to reach the quarter-finals for the first time and came closest to scoring during a game of few chances when Daisuke Matsui smashed a long-range strike against the crossbar in the first half.

Japan coach Takeshi Okada had targeted a semi-final place before the tournament but in a game during which neither side really gambled on scoring a winner it is his team that ultimately paid for their lack of ambition.
Their defeat ended Asia's participation in the tournament, but Tuesday's result in Pretoria ensured that there will be four South American sides in the last eight.
Gerardo Martin's team have conceded only once in their four games in South Africa and were defensively solid against a Japan team that had previously looked dangerous on the counter attack.
Japan aimed two long-distance strikes towards the Paraguay goal in the opening minutes but the tie soon deteriorated into a scrappy, edgy contest.
The Blue Samurai, unchanged for their fourth straight World Cup match, sat deep and attempted to snuff out the opposition, while Paraguay conceded a series of niggling fouls every time Japan looked to strike on the counter.
There was one scintillating minute in an otherwise forgettable opening half.
It started when a deft turn from Lucas Barrios briefly left two Japan defenders foundering but his strike with the outside of his right boot was saved.
Seconds later Matsui, whose impressive tournament had a disappointing end when he was withdrawn shortly after the restart, crashed his long-range effort against Justo Villar's crossbar.
Matsui later turned provider for Honda, who opted to strike first time but missed from 20 yards when he clearly had the space to take an initial touch.
Roque Santa Cruz, deployed on the right by Martino, ought to have tested Eiji Kawashima after a corner dropped invitingly but he missed from close to the penalty spot as a largely soporific half ended goalless.
There was not much of an upsurge in entertainment after the restart.
Yuji Nakazawa blocked an Edgar Benitez strike and Sunderland-bound Christian Riveros headed wide after a superb near-post run.
A Yuto Nagatomo strike took a deflection off Carlos Bonet, while one effort from the unfortunate Komano spoke volumes about the lack of attacking quality at vital moments.
The right-back found an advanced position but his shot from a wide angle was so far wide that the subsequent throw-in took place almost 18 yards from the byeline.
Neither team had been able to mount a sustained spell of pressure but Paraguay did enjoy a brief period in the ascendancy shortly after the start of extra-time.
Kawashima saved a disappointing header from Barrios, who was unmarked, and smothered a shot from substitute Nelson Valdez after his sharp turn finally picked a hole in the Japan defence.
Villar saved a low strike from Honda that appeared to be going wide and there was one moment when there appeared to be space inside the Paraguay box but any prospects of Japan capitalising were undermined by an awful cross from substitute Keiji Tamada.
There was a certain inevitability about the penalty shoot-out that eventually took place. Neither keeper came particularly close to making a save but Komano's miss proved decisive.

Paraguay	0-0	Japan	FT
	(HT 0-0) Paraguay win 5-3 on penalties
Team
Paraguay 01 Villar 03 Morel 14 Da Silva 21 Alcaraz 06 Bonet 13 Vera 16 Riveros 20 Ortigoza (08 Barreto, 75) 09 Santa Cruz (07 Cardozo, 94) 10 Benitez (18 Valdez, 60) 19 Barrios		Japan 21 Kawashima 03 Komano 04 Tanaka 05 Nagatomo 22 Nakazawa 02 yuki_abe">Abe (14 Nakamura, 81) 07 Endo 08 Matsui (09 Okazaki, 65) 17 Hasebe 18 Honda 16 Okubo (11 Tamada, 106)
12 Barreto, 22 Bobadilla, 02 Veron, 04 Caniza, 05 J Caceres, 17 Torres, 08 Barreto, 11 Santana, 07 Cardozo, 18 Valdez, 23 Gamarra		Substitutes: 01 Narazaki, 23 Kawaguchi, 06 Uchida, 13 Iwamasa, 15 Konno, 10 Nakamura, 14 Nakamura, 20 Inamoto, 09 Okazaki, 11 Tamada, 12 Kisho Yano, 19 Morimoto
Venue: Loftus Versfeld Stadium Referee: F De Bleeckere Attendance: 36,742

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Amazing day's For Keisuke Honda

Japan scored two stunning first-half free-kicks to secure a well-deserved win over Denmark and set up a meeting with Paraguay in the last 16 of the World Cup.

Keisuke Honda smashed his effort into the far corner before Yasuhito Endo, who also hit a post in the second half, curled a fine strike around the wall.
Jon Dahl Tomasson, who missed several earlier chances, followed up his own penalty to pull one back for Denmark after 81 minutes.
But Honda teed up Shinji Okazaki to seal a famous victory for Japan, which ensured they finished runners-up to Netherlands in Group E and reached the second round for only the second time in their history.

It was a performance of confidence and authority from the Japanese which seemed to come from nowhere. Takeshi Okada's side had lost five of their previous six games and only scored nine goals in 12 World Cup matches.
But after a tentative start in Rustenburg, they took the game to the Danes, sparking into life with two efforts in as many minutes. First Daisuke Matsui's clever flick struck the legs of Denmark goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen, and moments later Makoto Hasebe raced into the box but fired narrowly wide.
Denmark went close through Tomasson before a Japan free-kick 30 yards from goal brought about one of the goals of the tournament.
From a straight run-up, in a style reminiscent of Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo, Honda smashed the ball over the wall and watched it swerve past Sorensen into the far corner.
When Japan won another free-kick shortly afterwards, the Danes were clearly expecting another piledriver from Honda, but instead they watched in horror as Endo's exquisite strike curled around the wall and past the outstretched arms of Sorensen.
While the Danish keeper's positioning could have been better in both cases, Japan's strikes were precise and superbly-executed, making a mockery of the difficulty players have been having with the much-maligned Jabulani ball.
In the space of 13 minutes, the Asian side had doubled the number of free-kick goals we had witnessed in the previous 42 matches at this tournament in South Africa.
Denmark looked stunned by the goals, while an energised Japan kept pouring forward with Endo stinging Sorensen's palms in the closing stages of the first half.
Early in the second, Japan almost scored from yet another set-piece, with Endo's floated strike from 40 yards slipping bizarrely through Sorensen's palms and striking the face of an upright.
While the Denmark keeper appeared all at sea, his opposite number Eiji Kawashima looked confident and commanding, diving at the feet of Tomasson to smother the striker's effort and pushing aside Jakob Poulsen's long-range shot.
Substitute Christian Eriksen fired narrowly over and Soren Larson volleyed against the bar before Danish pressure finally yielded a penalty in the 82nd minute when Daniel Agger was bundled over by Hasebe.
Tomasson's initial shot was easily saved by Kawashima but the ball rolled straight back to the striker, whose scuffed effort only just found the net to bring up his record-equalling 52nd goal in a Danish shirt.
Japan restored their two-goal advantage from a brisk counter attack, with Honda dancing his way into the area and committing Sorensen, before pulling the ball back for Okazaki to tap into the empty net.

Denmark	1-3	Japan	FT
Tomasson, 81	(HT 0-2)	Honda, 17 Endo, 30 Okazaki, 87
Team
Denmark 01 Sorensen 04 Agger 06 Jacobsen 13 Kroldrup (18 Larsen, 56) 15 S Poulsen 02 C Poulsen 10 Jorgensen (14 J Poulsen, 34) 12 Kahlenberg (21 Eriksen, 63) 09 Tomasson 11 Bendtner 19 Rommedahl		Japan 21 Kawashima 03 Komano 04 Tanaka 05 Nagatomo 22 Nakazawa 02 Abe 07 Endo (20 Inamoto, 90+1) 08 Matsui (09 Okazaki, 76) 17 Hasebe 18 Honda 16 Okubo (15 Konno, 89)
16 Andersen, 22 Christiansen, 23 Mtiliga, 05 Kvist, 07 Jensen, 08 Gronkjaer, 14 J Poulsen, 17 Beckmann, 20 Enevoldsen, 21 Eriksen, 18 Larsen		Substitutes: 01 Narazaki, 23 Kawaguchi, 06 Uchida, 13 Iwamasa, 15 Konno, 10 Nakamura, 14 Nakamura, 20 Inamoto, 09 Okazaki, 11 Tamada, 12 Kisho Yano, 19 Morimoto
Venue: Royal Bafokeng Stadium Referee: Jerome Damon Attendance: 27,967

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Wesley Sneijder establish Netherlands measures in Group E

The Netherlands put themselves on the brink of qualification for the last 16 with a hard-fought victory in Durban over an impressively stubborn Japan side.

Wesley Sneijder's powerful 52nd-minute winner from just outside the box settled a fascinating Group E contest between two contrasting sides who opened up in the second half and were creating good chances right up to the final whistle.

The Dutch will qualify for the knockout stages before their final group game if Cameroon fail to beat Denmark later on Saturday, and are still likely to go through regardless.

Japan came into the match off the back of their first World Cup win on foreign soil after beating Cameroon 1-0 on Monday.

And the afterglow of that historic achievement was evident in the admirable tactical nous they executed in the first half as they stifled the Netherlands' search for fluid creativity with regimental efficiency in front of a near-full Moses Mabhida Stadium.

The Dutch, who are now unbeaten in 21 matches, started like a team full of quiet confidence as they kept possession well and used the width of Dirk Kuyt on the right and Rafael van der Vaart on the left.

Inter Milan midfielder Sneijder had the first clear chance but, on this occasion, could not keep his long-range shot, from a free-kick, down - a common sight in South Africa as players struggle to tame the much-criticised Jabulani ball.

When they did break up the Netherlands' passing, Grenoble midfielder Daisuke Matsui looked bright for Japan - instigating an incisive move that eventually resulted in Yuto Nagatomo hitting a stinging shot just wide.

The Asian side slowly began to frustrate the Dutch, who struggled to bring striker Robin van Persie into the game and lacked a killer pass.

And by the end of the first half Japan had relative control, with towering Brazilian-born defender Tulio heading just wide before Matsui lashed a decent volley straight at goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg.

But the Netherlands - who have never won the World Cup, despite a rich pedigree of world-class footballers - took the second half by the scruff of the neck, with Van Persie breaking free on a couple of occasions.

After a period of concerted pressure as the ball ricocheted around the box in the 52nd minute, the Arsenal striker managed to nudge it into the path of Sneijder.

Loitering just outside the penalty area, the Inter Milan star lashed a powerful right-foot shot towards goal that keeper Eiji Kawashima could only deflect into the net when he was well placed to make an effective save.

That moment liberated both teams and no longer could containment tactics be the limit of Japan's ambitions.

They responded in kind, Van Persie finding himself hooking a dangerous cross from substitute Shunsuke Nakamura over his own crossbar from within the six-yard box.

Hamburg's Eljero Elia came on as a substitute for Van der Vaart and nearly recreated the impression he had from the bench in the Netherlands' first match, cleverly releasing Ibrahim Allelay for a one on one, although his fellow substitute could not add a second with seven minutes remaining as Kawashima smothered his attempt.

Japan had the best chance to level the score one minute from time but unmarked substitute Shinji Okazaki fired over from 10 yards.

Seconds later, referee Hector Baldassi waved away penalty claims as Yuto Nagatomo went down under a challenge from Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong and the Dutch clung on to achieve maximum points from their opening two fixtures.

Cameroon play Denmark at 1930 BST in the fourth group E match.

Netherlands	1-0	Japan	FT
Sneijder, 53	(HT 0-0)
Team
Netherlands 01 Stekelenburg 02 Van Der Wiel 03 Heitinga 04 Mathijsen 05 Van Bronckhorst 06 Van Bommel 08 De Jong 10 Sneijder (Afellay, 82) 23 Van der Vaart (Elia, 72) 07 Kuyt 09 Van Persie (Huntelaar, 87)		Japan 21 Kawashima 03 Komano 04 Tanaka 05 Nagatomo 22 Nakazawa 02 Abe 07 Endo 08 Matsui (Nakamura, 64) 17 Hasebe (Okazaki, 77) 18 Honda 16 Okubo (Tamada, 77)
16 Vorm, 22 Boschker, 12 Boulahrouz, 13 Ooijer, 15 Braafheid, 14 De Zeeuw, 18 Schaars, 20 Afellay, 11 Robben, 17 Elia, 19 Babel, 21 Huntelaar		Substitutes: 01 Narazaki, 23 Kawaguchi, 06 Uchida, 13 Iwamasa, 15 Konno, 10 Nakamura, 14 Nakamura, 20 Inamoto, 09 Okazaki, 11 Tamada, 12 Kisho Yano, 19 Morimoto
Venue: Moses Mabhida Stadium Referee: H Baldassi Attendance: 62,010

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