AFC Asian Cup

FT Friday, January 16, 2015
Japan WWWWW 1
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Iraq LWWLW 0
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JPN101
IRQ000
Suncorp Stadium · 22,941 att.

Match Report

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Japan edge Iraq 1-0 to almost seal Asian Cup quarterfinal berth

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Head to Head

JPN leads series 2-0

Lineups

IRQ

  1. 12Jalal HassanG
  2. 2Ahmed Ibrahim KhalafD
  3. 6Ali Adnan KadhimD
  4. 14Salam ShakirD
  5. 15Dhurgham IsmailD
  6. 23Waleed SalimD
  7. 5Yaser KasimM
  8. 7Amjad KalafM
  9. 21Saad AbdulameerM
  10. 10Younus MahmoodF
  11. 17Alaa Abdul-ZehraF

JPN

  1. 1Eiji KawashimaG
  2. 5Yuto NagatomoD
  3. 6Masato MorishigeD
  4. 21Gotoku SakaiD
  5. 22Maya YoshidaD
  6. 4Keisuke HondaM
  7. 7Yasuhito EndoM
  8. 10Shinji KagawaM
  9. 17Makoto HasebeM
  10. 18Takashi InuiM
  11. 9Shinji OkazakiF

Timeline

  1. 23' Keisuke Honda (Japan) Penalty - Scored at 23'
  2. 51' Alaa Abdul-Zehra (Iraq) Yellow Card at 51'
  3. 55' Justin Meram (Iraq) Substitution at 55'
  4. 61' Salam Shaker (Iraq) Yellow Card at 61'
  5. 64' Hiroshi Kiyotake (Japan) Substitution at 64'
  6. 64' Yasuyuki Konno (Japan) Substitution at 64'
  7. 67' Ahmed Yasin (Iraq) Substitution at 67'
  8. 74' Hiroshi Kiyotake (Japan) Yellow Card at 74'
  9. 90' Yoshinori Muto (Japan) Substitution at 90'
  10. 90'
  11. 90'+2' Yasuyuki Konno (Japan) Yellow Card at 92'

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