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TUNISIA vs JAPAN

Match Report below

Match Stats: -

MAN OF THE MATCH: Hidetoshi Nakata (Japan)


Teams:

Tunisia:
             1-Ali Boumnijel
              2-Khaled Badra
              6-Hatem Trabelsi
            12-Raouf Bouzaiane (20-Ali Zitouni 79)
            15-Radhi Jaidi
            23-Clayton (7-Imed Mhadhebi 61)
            13-Riadh Bouazizi
            18-Slim Ben Achour
            10-Kais Ghodhbane
            21-Mourad Melki (3-Zoubeir Baya 46)
              5-Ziad Jaziri

Japan:
            12-Seigo Narazaki
              3-Naoki Matsuda
            17-Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
            16-Koji Nakata
            20-Tomokazu Myojin
              5-Junichi Inamoto (22-Daisuke Ichikawa 46)
            21-Kazuyuki Toda
              7-Hidetoshi Nakata (19-Mituso Ogasawara 84)
            18-Shinji Ono
            11-Takayuki Suzuki
            13-Atsushi Yanagisawa (8-Hiroaki Morishima 46)
            
Match referee: Gilles Veissiere (France)
Linesmen: Frederic Arnault (France) & Haidar Koleit (Lebanon)

Match Report: -

Japan top their group to move into the next round and to keep the record of the host team(s) always reaching the knockout stages. A good performance from Nakata as he made sure his team didn't crack and he scored the decisive goal to release pressure off of Japan.

Tunisia just couldn't find their best form as they fall at the first hurdle.

Japan played out a great performance and in the end won with a good performance.