Live FIFA World Cup 2018: Japan 0-0 Poland

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HALF-TIME: Japan 0-0 Poland

One minute of damage time added.

40' Takashi Usami gets into the Poland penalty house, Shinji Okazaki gets a flick together with his head and the ball is going for a corner.

39' Japan get a corner. Usami sends the ball into the Poland penalty box however goalkeeper Fabianski takes it easily.

34' Asami takes a shot at the proper aspect of the six-yard box however Fabianski deflects the ball and it gets back to him after hitting his teammates.

32' SAVE! Grosicki gets a move from the right and heads into the Japanese nets however skipper Eiji Kawashima comes up with impressive save. He runs across his line to save a header.

28' Corner for Japan from the right. Poalnd's Jan Bednarek clears the chance with a header.

21' Eiji Kawashima dives to his left and save header through Poland's Grosicki.

20' Corner for Poland after Japanese defender heads the ball away when Grosicki's move enters into the area.

16' Japan had some other chance with Hiroki Sakai hitting immediately into the arms of Fabianski.

13' SAVE! Poland's goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski dives his left to save Yoshinori Muto's kick from the edge of the box.

11' Japan is at the attack from the left flank, Yuto Nagatomo sends an extended pass into Poland's box however Moto is not able to connect.

7' Takashi Usami leads Japan counter-attack, he runs into Poland defence with the ball at his feet however fails to deliver after all.

5' Poland is at the attack. Robert Lewandowski collects a pass from Grosicki into the Japan penalty house however defender Gaku Shibasaki intercepts him effectively.

2' Poland get the corner early in the sport, Japan defence avert the chance easily.

1' Referee blows the whistle and the match gets underway with Poland taking the outlet kick.

Players are out at the box and it is time for national anthem at Volgograd Arena.

TEAM NEWS

Japan made six changes for Thursday's World Cup sport, together with leaving midfielder Takashi Inui at the bench, whilst already-eliminated Poland made five changes.

Inui picked up a yellow card in Japan's closing match in opposition to Senegal. Midfielder Keisuke Honda remained at the bench, simply as he did initially of their previous two video games.

The Asians need a draw to advance to the knockout rounds once they beat Colombia and drew with Senegal in their opening Group H video games, defying low expectations initially of the match.

Poland are in quest of to revive some pleasure through eking out a win in opposition to Japan and feature fielded striker Robert Lewandowski in the hope he can ruin his Russia goal drought.

LINE-UPS

Japan: Eiji Kawashima (capt), Yuto Nagatomo, Gaku Shibasaki, Shinji Okazaki, Takashi Usami, Yoshinori Muto, Hotaru Yamaguchi, Hiroki Sakai, Tomaoki Makino, Gotoku Sakai, Maya Yoshida

Poland: Lukasz Fabianski, Artur Jedrzejczyk, Jan Bednarek, Jacek Goralski, Robert Lewandowski (capt), Grzegorz Krychowiak, Kamil Grosicki, Kamil Glik, Bartosz Bereszynski, Piotr Zielinski, Rafal Kurzawa

PREVIEW

Japan would be the simplest Asian aspect to qualify for the closing 16 of the World Cup in the event that they take some degree from Poland.

If they be triumphant they will be the primary Asian workforce to succeed in the second one stage of the match since they did so in 2010 in South Africa, studies Xinhua news company.

Japan are the only Asian aspect to succeed in the knockout stages of the World Cup since they and South Korea did so after they hosted the match in 2002.

Japan have impressed up to now in Russia with a 2-1 win over Colombia and a 2-2 attract an entertaining match in opposition to Senegal.

The Japanese will be favourites in opposition to Poland, who have misplaced their two suits and don't have any chance of attaining the closing 16.

Japan have simplest performed Poland two times in the closing 22 years, beating them 5-0 in February 1996 and 2-0 in March 2002, however they will be cautious of the fact they've failed to attain in 4 of their closing World Cup video games in opposition to European opposition.


The closing time they scored in opposition to European fighters used to be in a Three-1 win over Denmark in 2010.


Meanwhile, Poland winger Kamil Grosiki admits their time in Russia has been a battle, however they will have to try and recuperate some pleasure in their ultimate sport after shedding 2-1 to Senegal, earlier than being utterly outplayed through the Colombians.


"We couldn't even get the ball off Colombia, never mind counter against them. We've disappointed everyone, including ourselves. We came here with high hopes and huge dreams. Now we're playing the last match just for honour," Grosiki said.


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