The All Whites have lost the Kirin Cup final against Japan, despite putting on a brave defence.<\/p>\n
The host side proved too strong for the New Zealanders at Tokyo National Stadium, with Doan’s close-range winner settling the contest after some excellent work from Nakamura down the left.<\/p>\n
Like the World Cup, the All Whites were asked to defend for long spells and were largely successful in repelling deliveries into the box. However, once the game became more stretched, Japan proved too dangerous around the area.<\/p>\n
New Zealand’s international window now comes to a close with the players set to return to their clubs. The All Whites will next be back in action at home in November, taking on India in a two-match series, first at Go Media Stadium before making history with their first-ever match at One New Zealand Stadium in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
See how the game unfolded in our blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All Whites have lost the Kirin Cup final against Japan, despite putting on a brave defence. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-621388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}