Game is over and the final score is Japan 0-1 Costa Rica. Here is the match report.
2022 World Cup
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Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
34' Campbell's shot wide out
38' Wataru Endo's shot stopped
42' Yellow Card! Anthony Contreras booked
43' Yellow Card! Miki Yamane booked
45' Navas maked good save
48' Asano's header too straight
56' Yuki Soma's shot wide out
60' Yellow Card! Borges booked
61' Yuki Soma's free kick over the bar
69' Yellow Card! F. Calvo booked
80' GOAL! Japan 0-1 Costa Rica (Keysher Fuller)
Match Reports
Costa Rica ignited their World Cup campaign with a smash-and-grab 1-0 win over Japan at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.
Luis Fernando Suarez's men prioritised defensive solidity after their 7-0 humbling at the hands of Spain in their opening match and kept their opponents at bay sufficiently throughout, as the early-afternoon temperature exceeded 30 degrees.
But Costa Rica made Japan pay for their failure to capitalise on their attacking superiority when Keysher Fuller curled a shot over Shuichi Gonda (81) with the team's first shot on target in the tournament.
The late winner blew Group E wide open, with Costa Rica, Japan and Spain - who face Germany later this evening - all on three points at this stage.
Line-ups
Japan XI: Shuichi Gonda, Yoshida, Nagatomo, W. Endo, Ritsu Doan, Ko Itakura, Kamada, Miki Yamane, Hidemasa Morita, Ayase Ueda, Yuki Soma
Subs: E. Kawashima, Sakai, Shibasaki, Daniel Schmidt, Minamino, Asano, Shogo Taniguchi, Junya Ito, Tomiyasu, Daizen Maeda, Ao Tanaka, Hiroki Ito, Takefusa Kubo, Kaoru Mitoma, Shuto Machino
Costa Rica XI: Navas, B. Oviedo, Duarte, Borges, K. Waston, J.Campbell, Y. Tejeda, F. Calvo, Gerson Torres, Anthony Contreras, Keysher Fuller
Subs: B. Ruiz, Esteban Alvarado, J. Venegas, R. Matarrita, Youstin Salas, Juan Pablo Vargas, Patrick Sequeira, Carlos Martínez, Daniel Chacón, Douglas López, Brandon Aguilera, Roan Wilson, Jewison Bennette, Álvaro Zamora, Anthony Hernández