Vahid Halilhodzic\u2019s side have been drawn against Colombia, Senegal, and Poland in first-round Group H at the 2018 World Cup, following the draw at the Kremlin on Friday.<\/p>\n
Japan will have a chance for revenge in its opening match on 19 June against Colombia,\u00a0eliminated the four-time Asian champions from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n
“It’s a group where all the teams have their own strengths,”\u00a0said Halilhodzic, as quoted by AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The Colombia game will be key. Purely by coincidence, I watched a video of them a few days ago. For Japan it will be chance to get revenge for the last World Cup.”<\/p>\n At the last World Cup, Japan lost to Cote d\u2019Ivoire, drew with Greece and ended their campaign with a humiliating 4-1 defeat by the Colombians<\/a> in their final group stage game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vahid Halilhodzic\u2019s side have been drawn against Colombia, Senegal, and Poland in first-round Group H at the 2018 World Cup, following the draw at the Kremlin on Friday. Japan will have a chance for revenge in its opening match on 19 June against Colombia,\u00a0eliminated the four-time Asian champions from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. “It’s a group where all the teams have their own strengths,”\u00a0said Halilhodzic, as quoted by AFP. “The Colombia game will be key. Purely by coincidence, I watched a video of them a few days ago. For Japan it will be chance to get revenge for the last World Cup.” At the last World Cup, Japan … Continue reading “Vahid Halilhodzic eyes “revenge” against Colombia in 2018 World Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":9276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[637,57,95,551],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-japan","tag-slider","tag-vahid-halilhodzic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}