Japan 1-1 Croatia (PEN 1-3): Livakovic wins the first shootout of the tournament

Livakovic wins the first shootout of the tournament by saving 3 penalties. Croatia march into top 8

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

2' CLOSE! Japan’s header wide out

7' CLOSE! Perisic’s shot stopped by goalkeeper

11' Dangerous!

40' CHANCE! Kamada's shot over the bar

43' GOAL! Japan 1-0 Croatia (Daizen Maeda)

45' CHANCE! Kamada's shot over the bar

54' GOAL! Japan 1-1 Croatia (Perisic)

59' Good save

62' Long shot from Modric

76' CLOSE! Perisic’s shot wide out

Penalty Shootout:

Minamino-x     Vlasic     -GOAL

Mitoma    -x     Brozovic-GOAL

Asano       -x     Livaja     -GOAL

Yoshida    -x     Pasalic    -GOAL

Line-ups

Japan XI: Shuichi Gonda, Yoshida, Nagatomo, W. Endo, Shogo Taniguchi, Junya Ito, Ritsu Doan, Kamada, Tomiyasu, Daizen Maeda, Hidemasa Morita

Subs: E. Kawashima, Sakai, Shibasaki, Daniel Schmidt, Minamino, Asano, Miki Yamane, Ao Tanaka, Hiroki Ito, Kaoru Mitoma, Shuto Machino, Ayase Ueda, Yuki Soma

Croatia XI: Modric, Perisic, Lovren, Kramaric, Brozovic, Kovacic, D. Livaković, Petkovic, Borna Barisic, Josip Juranovic, Josko Gvardiol

Subs: Budimir, D. Vida, Mislav Orsic, Marko Livaja, Pasalic, Ivica Ivusic, Ivo Grbic, Vlasic, Martin Erlic, Kristijan Jakic, Lovro Majer, Luka Sucic, Josip Sutalo