Stade Reims winger Keito Nakamura has taken part of the game of his Japanese national team against Indonesia, this Wednesday, in the AFC Asian Cup group stage third round.
Nakamura was filling his role of inverted left winger who enters to central areas to pull the opposing full-back and leave space for either his left-back or his left central midfielder to make the overlapp and attack the zones voided in the flank.
Such profile can be interesting from clubs like Al-Ittihad, led by Marcelo Gallardo, who since joining The Tigers, he was trying to rely on as many players in central zones, having his full-backs acting like genuine wingers.
Nakamura was interesting in terms of playing the pass to that runner in the exact right time, by first provoking the full-back to leave his place, and finding him colleague just before he enters in the offside zone.
But on the other hand, when Nakamura was trying to exploit the run of his teammate, to make the cross himself, he was not shown precision.
He has not shown precision either when he had to take the shot near the penalty spot, and hit the woodwork.
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