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JAPAN vs. RUSSIA
A TALE OF TWO NATIONS

THE OCTOPUS'S SOCCER ALMANAC _

📍 Yokohama Stadium

⚽ MATCH RESULT

FULL TIME
JAPAN
1 – 0
RUSSIA
✦ REFEREE: Dr. Markus Merk
▶ GOALS & CARDS
  • 45' •
  • 51' ⚽ Junichi Inamoto
  • 52' •
  • 57' •
  • 72' •
  • 75' •
  • 85' •
▶ MATCH STATS
JPN 0% POSSESSION 0% RUS
JPN 10 SHOTS 15 RUS
JPN 2 SHOTS ON TARGET 4 RUS
JPN 30 FOULS 30 RUS
JPN 4 SAVES 0 RUS
JPN 0 RED CARDS 0 RUS
▶ LINE-UPS
JAPAN
STARTING XI
  1. GKSeigo Narazaki
  2. DFNaoki Matsuda
  3. DFTsuneyasu Miyamoto
  4. DFKoji Nakata
  5. MFJunichi Inamoto⚽
  6. MFTomokazu Myojin
  7. MFHidetoshi Nakata
  8. MFShinji Ono
  9. MFKazuyuki Toda
  10. FWTakayuki Suzuki
  11. FWAtsushi Yanagisawa
SUBSTITUTES
  • Toshihiro Hattori▲ 75'
  • Takashi Fukunishi▲ 85'
  • Masashi Nakayama▲ 72'
RUSSIA
STARTING XI
  1. GKRusian Nigmatullin
  2. DFYuri Kovtun
  3. DFYuri Nikiforov
  4. DFVictor Onopko
  5. DFAndrei Solomatin
  6. MFMarat Izmailov
  7. MFValeri Karpin
  8. MFIgor Semshov
  9. MFAlexei Smertin
  10. MFYegor Titov
  11. FWRusian Pimenov
SUBSTITUTES
  • Dmitri Khokhlov▲ 52'
  • Dmitry Sychev▲ 45'
  • Vladimir Beschastnykh▲ 57'

⚔ HEAD-TO-HEAD ARCHIVE

JAPAN
The Samurai Blue
EST. 1921
🐙 TEAM ALMANAC ›
VS
RUSSIA
Sbornaya
EST. 1912

📊 PIXEL STAT CHARTS

▶ JAPAN
▶ RUSSIA
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