*画像はgoal.comより拝借 (Borrowed the image from goal.com


昨日のニュージーランド戦を勝利で収め、日本代表は白星発進でワールドカップイヤーをスタートした。
Japan won yesterday's friendly against New Zealand, and launched its first game of World Cup year with a victory.

結果は皆さんもご存じのとおり4-2だ。
As all of you know, the result was 4-2.

代表チームは、前半13分の間で一気に4ゴールを奪い、観客に瞬きをする暇を与えない、完璧なパフォーマンスを披露した。
The team showed an impeccable performance scoring 4 goals in 13 minute in the first half, and didn't give time for the audience to blink.

特に、四点目の岡崎のゴールとそこまでの一連の流れは素晴らしかった。
Especially, Shinji Okazaki's fourth goal and the team play that created that fourth one was splendid.

香川のしかけから本田へのパス、そしてその本田から岡崎へのヒールパス、最後に岡崎のダイレクトシュート。この一連の流れるような連係は「完璧」の一言に尽きる。
The combination play of the three players--Shinji Kagawa's long dribbling run and a pass to Keisuke Honda and his back heal assist to Okazaki and his direct volley shot--was in a word "perfect."

しかしながら、その後簡単に二失点を喫するのを見ると、最終結果は手放しに喜べるものではない。
But as seeing the team conceding two goals easily later, the result cannot be a 100 percent happy one.

短時間で4点を奪ったことによる気持ちの緩みがチーム全体に見て取れたからだ。
The team lacked discipline after scoring four goals in a short period of time.

W杯までの親善試合は、あと5月27日のキプロス戦を残すだけです。
There is only one test match left unitl the World Cup finals, which is against Cyprus on May 27.

日本は他の出場国と比べて、本番までのテストマッチが少ない。そしてJFA(日本サッカー協会)が手配できた相手はニュージーランドやキプロスといった明らかな格下相手だ。それゆえ、次の試合は相手を完膚なきまでに叩きのめしすことが最低限のノルマだ!
The Samurai Blue have less games to prepare for the finals than other countries qualified for the tournament.  And the games that Japan Football Association were able to arrange are low ranked nations New Zealand and Cyprus.  So for the next match, Japan is obliged to beat the opponent with overwhelming score!


参考資料 (References)

試合動画 (Video of the Game)
試合結果
Match Result

*From uk.reuters.com


Transcription: Putin puts Russian troops on alert amid Ukraine separatist fears

Reporter: In Ukraine's most Russian-speaking Crimea, in the east, the trouble is brewing.  On Wednesday, the supporters of Ukraine's new government, many of them ethnic Tatars converged outside the regional parliament.  They were met with the rival demonstration by pro-Russian separatist--many of them ethnic Russians.  The separatists want Crimea to secede from Ukraine, or even become a part of Russia again like it had been until the 1950s.  The rallies come the same day the national government disbanded the riot police force--the forces called, "Berkut,"--and is blamed for the most of the death last in the week's spasm of violence.  But the move to disband them upset these Crimeans who set up camp outside the Berkut police barricks.

Pro-Russian Separatist 1: Crimea supports Berkut.  Our slogan is, "Berkut with the people.  People with the Berkut."

Pro-Russian Separatist 2: I am here to support our guys.  This is why I am here.  The guys are not responsible for our corrupt government behaving that way.

Reporter: In Kiev, protesters who helped topple the Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich vow Ukraine won't be divided.  They say all this separatism talk is coming from Russian-speaking leaders who want to split up the country.

Pro-Ukrainian Protester: There is no fear between countries.  There is no fear between people.  There is just fear between politicians.

Reporter: But tensions were high on Wednesday.  Pro-Russian protesters raised the Russian flag over city hall in the eastern city Kharkiv, and Russian President Vladimir Putin put a 150,000 troops on high alert for war games near Ukraine.  Moscow says the military drills aren't linked to events in Ukraine but any military action here would be serious.  It would be the closest Russia and the West have come to outright confrontation since the cold war.


References

Putin puts Russian troops on alert amid Ukraine separatist fears (Video)
New Ukraine ministers proposed, Russian troops on alert

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