Dramatic, Japan qualifies for the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup

Japan Japan moves to the last 16 despite its 0-1 defeat of Poland in the last Group H match 2018 World Cup at the Arena from Volgograd Thursday (28/6).

Despite its defeat against Poland, Japan escaped dramatically thanks to fair play or collected fewer yellow cards than Senegal. . Japan has only collected four yellow cards so far, while Senegal has received six yellow cards

While the Group H champions were occupied by Colombia, who managed to beat Senegal 1 -0 in the last match. Colombia has qualified for the knockout phase with a record of six points.

Poland, which has certainly been eliminated from the competition card of the group stage, is still fighting for the inaugural victory. However, Robert Lewandowski et al's attack did not show any spurs in the first half.
Precisely a successful Japanese created three on the target including the shooting of Takashi Usami in the 35th minute. While Poland managed to create only one shot towards goal thanks to Kamil Grosicki's tandukam.

The pace of the match increased at the beginning of the second period. Poland finally opened the scoring in the 60th minute with a header goal Kamil Glik hosts Rafal Kurzawa's free kick.

Superior 1-0 makes Poland more confident. The Red White team even doubled the gap in the 73rd minute when Lewandowski's shot did not rebound on Kawashima's crossbar.

Japan has a late goal in considering that Senegal has 0-1 from Colombia. While Poland has continued to work hard to expand the advantage.

Poland almost scored a second goal in the 81st minute. Kamil Growsicki released a low cross that his own goal almost fruitful. The ball on Tomoaki Makino's leg but the ball only resulted in a corner.

Japan continues to gain time as it was sure to qualify for the round of 16. For, the blue samurai can pbad to the autumn phase thanks to the fair play of excellence of Senegal which has collected the same value.

The second half was over and the score was 1-0 for the advantage of Poland. Japan finishes finalist with a four-point collection or a top fair play on Senegal. While the group winners lived in Colombia, they pocket six points.

Composition Players

Japan XI: Eiji Kawashima; Gotoku Sakai, Hiroki Sakai, Yoshida Maya, Tomoaki Makino, Yuto Nagatomo; Yoshinori Muto, Hotaru Yamaguchi, Gaku Shibasaki, Takashi Usami; Shinji Okazaki

Polish XI: Lukasz Fabianski; Bartosz Bereszynski, Kamil Glik, Jan Bednarek, Artur Jedrzejczyk; Grzegorz Krychowiak, Jacek Goralski; Kamil Grosicki, Piotr Zielinski, Rafal Kurzawa; Robert Lewandowski. (jun)