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France 2-1 Japan - June 20, 2003 / Confederations Cup 2003

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Confederations Cup 2003 - Group A

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard - Saint-Étienne - France

June 20, 2003

33 070

France

2 - 1

Japan

Robert Pirès

43'

Sidney Govou

66'

60'

Shunsuke Nakamura (free kick)

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43' - Goal Robert Pirès43

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58' - Substitution Olivier Dacourtis substituted by Benoît Pedretti58

60' - Goal Shunsuke Nakamura

66' - Goal Sidney Govou66

67' - Substitution Jérôme Rothenis substituted by Sylvain Wiltord67

74' - Substitution Junichi Inamotois substituted by Koji Nakata

80' - Substitution Steve Marletis substituted by Thierry Henry80

82' - Substitution Shunsuke Nakamurais substituted by Mitsuo Ogasawara

93' - Red card Willy Sagnol93

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Team line-ups

France

Barthez

Fabien Barthez

France

B.date28/06/1971

Age31 years

H1m83

positionGoalkeeper

Silvestre

Mikaël Silvestre

France

B.date09/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Boumsong

Jean-Alain Boumsong

France

B.date14/12/1979

Age23 years

H1m90

positionLeft central defender

Sagnol93

Willy Sagnol

France

B.date18/03/1977

Age26 years

H1m82

positionRight full-back

Gallas

William Gallas

France

B.date17/08/1977

Age25 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

Dacourt58

Olivier Dacourt

France

B.date25/09/1974

Age28 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

Dabo

Ousmane Dabo

France

B.date08/02/1977

Age26 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

Pirès43

Robert Pirès

France

B.date29/10/1973

Age29 years

H1m80

positionRight Midfielder

Rothen67

Jérôme Rothen

France

B.date31/03/1978

Age25 years

H1m77

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Marlet80

Steve Marlet

France

B.date10/01/1974

Age29 years

H1m80

positionStriker

Govou66

Sidney Govou

France

B.date27/07/1979

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Fabien Barthez		31	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mikaël Silvestre		25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Jean-Alain Boumsong		23	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Willy Sagnol	93	26	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	William Gallas		25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Olivier Dacourt	58	28	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ousmane Dabo		26	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Robert Pirès	43	29	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Jérôme Rothen	67	25	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Steve Marlet	80	29	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Sidney Govou	66	23	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Japan

Narazaki

Seigo Narazaki

Japan

B.date15/04/1976

Age27 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Miyamoto

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

Japan

B.date07/02/1977

Age26 years

H1m76

positionCentral defender

Tsuboi

Keisuke Tsuboi

Japan

B.date16/09/1979

Age23 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Yamada

Nobuhisa Yamada

Japan

B.date10/09/1975

Age27 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Santos

Alex Santos

Japan

B.date20/07/1977

Age25 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Inamoto74

Junichi Inamoto

Japan

B.date18/09/1979

Age23 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Endo

Yasuhito Endo

Japan

B.date28/01/1980

Age23 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Nakamura6082

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age24 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Okubo

Yoshito Okubo

Japan

B.date09/06/1982

Age21 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata

Japan

B.date22/01/1977

Age26 years

H1m75

positionOffensive Midfielder

Takahara

Naohiro Takahara

Japan

B.date04/06/1979

Age24 years

H1m80

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Seigo Narazaki		27	32	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto		26	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Keisuke Tsuboi		23	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nobuhisa Yamada		27	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alex Santos		25	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Junichi Inamoto	74	23	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yasuhito Endo		23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura	6082	24	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yoshito Okubo		21	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hidetoshi Nakata		26	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Naohiro Takahara		24	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
M	Benoît Pedretti	58	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Sylvain Wiltord	67	29	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Thierry Henry	80	25	48	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	D		Koji Nakata	74	23	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Mitsuo Ogasawara	82	24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Steve Marlet

Thierry Henry

OUT

Sidney Govou

Djibril Cissé

OUT

Jérôme Rothen

Olivier Kapo

OUT

Fabien Barthez

Grégory Coupet

OUT

Mikaël Silvestre

Marcel Desailly

OUT

Willy Sagnol

Bixente Lizarazu

OUT

Jean-Alain Boumsong

Lilian Thuram

OUT

Robert Pirès

Benoît Pedretti

OUT

William Gallas

Philippe Mexès

OUT

Ousmane Dabo

Sylvain Wiltord

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Manager

Age

Match num

Jacques Santini

Success rate in this team:

82 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Santini vs Japan

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 20, 2003

Santini vs Zico

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 20, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Zico

Success rate in this team:

22 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

22 %

Zico vs France

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 20, 2003

Zico vs Santini

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 20, 2003

Referee

Mark Shield

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	France1 match	General total	Japan7 matches	3 victories	1 draw	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	France1 match	Season total	Japan1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 20, 2003					Latest figure on March 26, 2008

Videos

March 28, 2014

Comments

Key figures

France keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a draw vs Japan at home running (since 24/03/2001). It's a record streak. The first of history

France keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a loss vs Japan running (since 29/05/1994). It's a record streak. The first of history

France keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a loss vs Japan at home running (since 29/05/1994). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 28 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VFrance 5-0 Slovenia12/10/2002

VFrance 3-0 Serbia and Montenegro20/11/2002

LFrance 0-2 Czech Republic12/02/2003

VFrance 6-0 Malta29/03/2003

VFrance 5-0 Egypt30/04/2003

VFrance 1-0 Colombia18/06/2003

Overall

VFrance 3-0 Serbia and Montenegro20/11/2002

LFrance 0-2 Czech Republic12/02/2003

VFrance 6-0 Malta29/03/2003

VIsrael 1-2 France02/04/2003

VFrance 5-0 Egypt30/04/2003

VFrance 1-0 Colombia18/06/2003

Current form

Away

LSouth Korea 1-0 Japan26/04/2000

LFrance 5-0 Japan24/03/2001

LSpain 1-0 Japan25/04/2001

VPoland 0-2 Japan27/03/2002

LNorway 3-0 Japan14/05/2002

VSouth Korea 0-1 Japan16/04/2003

Overall

DJapan 2-2 Uruguay28/03/2003

VSouth Korea 0-1 Japan16/04/2003

LJapan 0-1 South Korea31/05/2003

LJapan 1-4 Argentina08/06/2003

DJapan 0-0 Paraguay11/06/2003

VNew Zealand 0-3 Japan18/06/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	3	4
Unbeaten streak	3	4
Drawless streak	7	9
Scoring streak	3	4
Invincibility streak	3	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	11	1
Scoring streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	1	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	1
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	3
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	3
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	1
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	2
4	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Thierry Henry	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Shunsuke Nakamura
Thierry Henry	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Thierry Henry	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)		-
Thierry Henry	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Thierry Henry	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last match	Shunsuke Nakamura

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

0 ga

Away

2 matches

2 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

1 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

4 matches

3 v

1 d

0 l

12 gf

3 ga

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

0 v

0 d

2 l

1 gf

5 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

5 ga

Neutral ground

1 match

0 v

1 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

4 matches

0 v

1 d

3 l

3 gf

12 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	March 24, 2001
Home	5 - 0	March 24, 2001

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

June 10, 2001 - Coupe des Confédérations 2001

Japan

0 - 1

France

March 24, 2001 - Rencontres amicales 2001

France

5 - 0

Japan

June 04, 2000 - Rencontres amicales 2000

France

2 - 2

Japan

May 29, 1994 - Rencontres amicales 1994

Japan

1 - 4

France

Best historical scorers against Japan

David Trezeguet	2 goals	2001 - 2001
Zinédine Zidane	2 goals	2000 - 2001
Youri Djorkaeff	2 goals	1994 - 2000
David Ginola	1 goal	1994 - 1994
Thierry Henry	1 goal	2001 - 2001
Sylvain Wiltord	1 goal	2001 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against France

Akinori Nishizawa	1 goal	2000 - 2000
Takafumi Ogura	1 goal	1994 - 1994
Hiraoki Morishima	1 goal	2000 - 2000

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Bixente Lizarazu	4 matches	1994 - 2001
Marcel Desailly	4 matches	1994 - 2001
Robert Pirès	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Youri Djorkaeff	3 matches	1994 - 2001
Sylvain Wiltord	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Patrick Vieira	3 matches	2000 - 2001

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 29/05/1994. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs France

Akinori Nishizawa	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Ryuzo Morioka	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Teruyoshi Ito	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Junichi Inamoto	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Atsuhiro Miura	3 matches	2000 - 2001
Naoki Matsuda	3 matches	2000 - 2001