Live updates from Japan against Poland: 2018 World Cup

35: Japan Chance

The Japanese Usami attacks one through the jew's harp. Fabianski hits it from afar

33: What a Save!

Grosicki's head is stopped by a fantastic dive from a Kawashima hand! Easily lucky, and save from the game. Kawashima catches up earlier in the tournament for his precarious performances.

27: Poland's Defense Holding

The head of Japan is heading towards the skylight. Coin in Japan directed clear. Poland uses its size advantage. Glik in particular is a big guy who dominates the center.

22 "Luck for Poland

Header by Glik from Poland just off. And the goalkeeper Kawashima was anyway at stake.

21: Short Pbades Everywhere

Many matches in this Cup turned into contrasting styles, with a team (usually favorite) playing a style deliberate the other pushing the ball directly in the hope of an opportunistic goal. Not if this game; Both sides go from the front with the style of play.

17: Where is Japan's offensive?

Sakai tries a miss shot from outside the box, but it's just for the keeper. Where is Japan's offensive firepower?

13 & # 39; Luck for Japan!

Yoshinori Muto tears a ball into the penalty area in Poland, holds the ball and finally reaches Okazaki whose deep head is wide.

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5: No luck, but Poland controls the ball

No luck at the moment, but Poland has controlled the action. Although this is the eliminated team, Poland is a very (very) small favorite of bookmakers.

0 & # 39; Kickoff!

Poland in white, Japan's new look team in blue. How will Japan manage with its four scorers on the bench?

How Japan Can Advance

A quick reminder of the situation today: Japan must win or shoot to advance. He could also advance with a defeat, but then one would have to rely on the other game that breaks well, which of course would not be the case. As for Poland, she can not move forward, but would surely like to leave Russia with a good result. And striker Robert Lewandowski, still valiant, will be eager to go to the board.

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Starting lineup of Japan

Goalkeeper: 1 Eiji Kawashima (Metz)

Defenders: 5 Yuto Nagatomo (Galatasaray), 20 Tomoaki Makino (Urawa), 22 Maya Yoshida (Southampton), 19 Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), 21 Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg)

Midfielder: 16 Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka), 11 Takashi Usami (Augsburg), 7 Gaku Shibasaki (Getafe)

Pros: 9 Shinji Okazaki ( Leicester), 13 Yoshinori Muto (Mainz)

Some changes for Japan, but not the planned one. Eiji Kawashima will stay between the sticks despite some mistakes in his first two games. But Shinji Kagawa, Yuya Osoko, Takashi Inui and Keisuke Honda are on the bench – despite the four players who scored for Japan!

Poland & # 39; s Starting Lineup

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Goalkeeper: 22 Lukasz Fabianski (City of Swansea)

Defenders: 5 Jan Bednarek (Southampton), 18 Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria), 15 Kamil Glik (Monaco), 3 Artur Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warsaw)

Midfielder: 6 Jacek Goralski (Ludogorets Razgrad), 11 Kamil Grosicki (City of Hull), 10 Grzegorz Krychowiak (Paris St. Germain), 21 Rafal Kurzawa (Gornik Zabrze), 19 Pyotr Zielinski (Napoli)

Forward: 9 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

Poland traded its goalkeepers against Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski.

Japan vs. Poland Top Story Lines

• Japan has qualified for five World Cups, advancing the group stage twice. Poland has not made the second round of a World Cup since 1986.

• Poland can not pbad to the next round. But for Japan, the game counts. A victory or a draw would suffice in Japan. If Japan loses, it could still progress, but it will need a little help: it would be necessary for Senegal to win, or for Colombia to win with a smaller margin than that lost by Japan.

• Japan defeated Colombia, with goals from Shinji Kagawa and Yuya Osoko, and then won twice to draw Senegal 2-2, with Takashi Inui and Keisuke Honda.

• Robert Lewandowski, Bayern Munich ace Poland was disappointed by Senegal and Colombia, dropping five goals in total and scoring only one, by Grzegorz Krychowiak

. • "We have given the Poles a lot of joy in the last four years, we have not given the fans these dreams at all, we want to change them tomorrow," said winger Jakub Blaszczykowski

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