I can't believe that somebody here couldn't see that was a penalty for Syria cuz the ball came off the defender.... that's the only deceision that was right... the first goal or Japan was a foul and schoudn't have been counted... watch the reply how the striker is pushing the defender behin hin.... and that panalty for japan was pathetic cuz the defender was on the ball and there wasn't any threat or a scoring chance... and I'm not gonna comment the red card at the end!!! so many question marks about the iranian Referee ... this was very bad performance!!!!

keeper fouled the player that was offside. could be call either way. i would probably give the goalie a yellow and give the offside.

Bad referee, Japan deserves the win though.

The referee made sure that all the spectators knew what his two favourite colours were before they all left the stadium.

The ref is pathetic.

Should have been 1 - 0 in the end, two of those penalties shouldn't have count

シリア選手、なんで点を取ったときはコーナーで土下座をするわけ？土下座ならせめて日本のファンの前にやれ！

haha my god, that red was even more absurd than the one in the Korea game

Match was all over the place. In my opinion, it was only right to send off the 'keeper, there's no way he can slide from behind like that even if the Syrian player was offside. In that last incident with the free kick, I really don't know what happened but the player couldn't have embarrassed himself more. Japan was poor in all honesty. They won't go far if they continue playing like this.

poor syria

ref was terrible.
syriian guy was in offside anyway and the goalie should've not been sent off.

japan finally won, but they played really bad

Wow.. it's really hotting up at the Asia Cup!!

That was not a penalty....

We need Shunsuke Nakamura and Shinji Ono back--I miss their play-making ability... still, Matsui, Hasebe, Okazaki, and Honda are doing quite well!