Luis Enrique’s team lost to Japan and advanced to the round of 16 thanks to Germany’s victory over Costa Rica.
It was not in the forecasts. No one could have imagined it after the luxurious 7-0 debut. But sometimes football doesn’t make sense. He goes into another job. Spain enters the group stage: at the Khalifa International Stadium, Luis Enrique’s team loses 2-1 to Japan and advances to the round of 16 of the World Cup on goal differencedue to Germany’s victory against Costa Rica.
And that the story for La Roja had started as almost always: be superior to the rival and open the score, thanks to a goal from Álvaro Morata (three goals in three games). But everything changed in the second part: the Japanese reversed the result, with a controversial second goal to be discussed in the coming days.
Luis Enrique decided to make several changes to the starting eleven for this match: Carvajal, Laporte, Jordi Alba, Asensio and Ferrán Torres, starters against Germany, started on the bench this time. The strategy of the Asturian coach did not find good interpreters this time.
How the teams arrived for this “dramatic” final
The Blue samurai they added three points to the championshipresult of one victory by a score of 2-1 against Germany and defeat by Costa Rica by 0-1.
For his part, the Red collected four unitsobtained through a victory against Costa Rica 7-0 and a draw 1-1 against Germany.
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Actions and curiosities the feast
Japan’s draw to give more excitement to the game and the group
How scary, Unai!
Morata’s holy cry to open the score
The first clear for Spain, in minute 6
This is how the Spanish national anthem was heard
JAPAN – SPAIN, OBJECTIVES AND MINUTE BY MINUTE
- The clash between the Blue Samurai and La Roja, minute by minute.
19:55 | A hobby that says always present
19:45 | Spain won their only previous meeting with Japan in all competitions, a 1–0 friendly in April 2001.
19:38 | Spain’s analysis in the previous
19:27 | Spain have never lost to the Asian opposition (W3 D2) in five previous FIFA World Cup matches, although they were knocked out by South Korea on penalties in one of those in 2002.
19:15 | wardrobe ready
19:04 | The Japanese XI: gondola; Taniguchi, Yoshida, Itakura, Nagatomo; blueberry, Ito; Tanaka, Kamada, cube; Mada.
7pm | Spain have won their last group stage match in eight of their last nine World Cup appearances, with the exception of a 2-2 draw with Morocco in the last edition, in 2018.
6:45 pm | Japan has lost three of its last four World Cup games (W1), as many as in the previous nine games in the tournament (W3 D3), and is looking to avoid scoring without scoring for the first time in a World Cup in a row. since 1998 (against Argentina and Croatia).
18:32 | ATTENTION! There is already XI of Spain: Unai Simon; Azpilicueta, Rodrigo, Pau Torres, Balde; Gavi, Busquets, Pedro; nico williams, morata and Dani Elm.
18:25 | Spain is undefeated in its last seven games at the World Cup (W3 D4). Only once in their history have they gone an extended period in the league without losing (10 games between 1998 and 2006).
18:13 | Croatia qualifies second in Group F for the round of 16. Will they be Spain’s rivals?
6pm | Japan could qualify for the knockout stages at consecutive World Cups for the first time in their history. In that case, Hajime Moriyasu would be the third Japanese coach to lead Japan to the knockout stage of a World Cup tournament, after Takeshi Okada in 2010 and Akira Nishino in 2018.
17:44 | Álvaro Morata scored in both of his appearances for Spain at the 2022 World Cup, with both goals coming as a substitute. Only one player scored in his first three World Cup appearances for Spain, Telmo Zarra in 1950.
5.30 pm | Luis Enrique’s pre-game technical talk
- Good afternoon and welcome to another broadcast of GOAL. Japan will meet Spain on date 3 of Group E of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, at the Khalifa International Stadium.
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HOW TO WATCH LIVE ON TV AND STREAMING
The game will be shown on television in Argentina DirecTV Sports and TyC Sports, while in Chile, the broadcast is in charge of DirecTV Sports. In Mexico there are the options of Sky Sports, TUDN, Azteca 7 and Canal de las Estrellaswhile in the United States the meeting will take place Spanish on Telemundo and in English on FOX. Finally the game can be seen in Colombia via DirecTV Sports, RCN and Caracol. In Spain it will be possible to see 1 television.
The match between Japan and Spain will be available via streaming for all of South America DirectTV Goin Mexico for Blue to go Y Vix+ and in Spain before Movistar+. Likewise, it will be in the United States Fox Sports app Y Telemundo app.
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FORMATIONS
JAPAN
gondola; Taniguchi, Yoshida, Itakura, Nagatomo; blueberry, Ito; Tanaka, Kamada, cube; Mada
SPAIN
Unai Simon; Azpilicueta, Rodri, Pau Torres, Balde; Gavi, Busquets, Pedro; nico williams, morata and Dani Elm.
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