Ao Tanaka kicked off Leeds United’s involvement in the international break with an appearance for Japan against China. Japan were playing the first of their Group C World Cup qualification matches and comfortably dispatched China on home soil by an impressive 7-0 scoreline. Tanaka was actually named on the bench for the game but just like on his debut for Leeds, came on as a second half substitute and got involved right away. All of Japan’s scorers in the game are currently plying their trade in a top-flight league with Liverpool’s Wataru Endo and Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma both netting in the fi…
