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Japan 4-3 Uruguay - October 16, 2018 / Friendlies 2018

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Friendlies 2018 - Intercontinental

Saitama Stadium 2002 - Saitama - Japan

October 16, 2018

57 239

4 - 3

Uruguay

Assist by Shoya NakajimaTakumi Minamino

10'

Yuya Osako

36'

Assist by Hiroki SakaiRitsu Doan

59'

Takumi Minamino

66'

28'

Gastón Pereiro

57'

Edinson Cavani

75'

Jonathan RodriguezAssist by Edinson Cavani

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10' - Goal Takumi Minamino10

28' - Goal Gastón Pereiro

36' - Goal Yuya Osako36

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46' - Substitution Rodrigo Bentancuris substituted by Federico Valverde photo Jonathan Rodriguez

46' - Substitution Giorgian De Arrascaetais substituted by Jonathan Rodriguez

57' - Goal Edinson Cavani

59' - Goal Ritsu Doan59

64' - Substitution Martín Cáceresis substituted by Camilo Mayada

66' - Goal Takumi Minamino66

74' - Substitution Gaku Shibasakiis substituted by Toshihiro Aoyama74

74' - Substitution Lucas Torreirais substituted by Nahitan Nandez

75' - Goal Jonathan Rodriguez

77' - Substitution Gastón Pereirois substituted by Maxi Gómez

85' - Substitution Maxi Gómezis substituted by Cristhian Stuani

87' - Substitution Shoya Nakajimais substituted by Genki Haraguchi87

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Japan

4 - 3

Uruguay

Japan Uruguay

Team line-ups

Japan

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

15Osako36

Yuya Osako

Japan

B.date18/05/1990

Age28 years

H1m82

positionSecond striker

10Nakajima87

Shoya Nakajima

Japan

B.date23/08/1994

Age24 years

H1m64

positionLeft Winger

9Minamino1066

Takumi Minamino

Japan

B.date16/01/1995

Age23 years

H1m74

positionForward

21Doan59

Ritsu Doan

Japan

B.date16/06/1998

Age20 years

H1m72

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

7Shibasaki74

Gaku Shibasaki

Japan

B.date28/05/1992

Age26 years

H1m73

positionMidfield

6Endo

Wataru Endo

Japan

B.date09/02/1993

Age25 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

5Nagatomo

Yuto Nagatomo

Japan

B.date12/09/1986

Age32 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

22Yoshida

Maya Yoshida

Japan

B.date24/08/1988

Age30 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

2Miura

Genta Miura

Japan

B.date01/03/1995

Age23 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

19Sakai

Hiroki Sakai

Japan

B.date12/04/1990

Age28 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

1Higashiguchi

Masaaki Higashiguchi

Japan

B.date12/05/1986

Age32 years

H1m84

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Masaaki Higashiguchi		32	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Maya Yoshida		30	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Genta Miura		23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Yuto Nagatomo		32	110	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Hiroki Sakai		28	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Wataru Endo		25	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Gaku Shibasaki	74	26	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Ritsu Doan	59	20	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Shoya Nakajima	87	24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Takumi Minamino	1066	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Yuya Osako	36	28	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Uruguay

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

21Cavani57

Edinson Cavani

Uruguay

B.date14/02/1987

Age31 years

H1m84

positionStriker

10De Arrascaeta46

Giorgian De Arrascaeta

Uruguay

B.date01/06/1994

Age24 years

H1m73

positionSecond striker

4Saracchi

Marcelo Saracchi

Uruguay

B.date23/04/1998

Age20 years

H1m72

positionLeft full-back

14Torreira74

Lucas Torreira

Uruguay

B.date11/02/1996

Age22 years

H1m68

positionDefensive Midfielder

6Bentancur46

Rodrigo Bentancur

Uruguay

B.date05/06/1997

Age21 years

H1m87

positionCentre Midfield

16Pereiro2877

Gastón Pereiro

Uruguay

B.date11/06/1995

Age23 years

H1m90

positionOffensive Midfielder

17Laxalt

Diego Laxalt

Uruguay

B.date07/02/1993

Age25 years

H1m76

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

3Godín

Diego Godín

Uruguay

B.date16/02/1986

Age32 years

H1m86

positionLeft central defender

19Coates

Sebastián Coates

Uruguay

B.date07/10/1990

Age28 years

H1m96

positionRight central defender

22Cáceres64

Martín Cáceres

Uruguay

B.date07/04/1987

Age31 years

H1m80

positionVersatile Defender

1Muslera

Fernando Muslera

Uruguay

B.date16/06/1986

Age32 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Fernando Muslera		32	105	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Martín Cáceres	64	31	84	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Diego Godín		32	125	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Sebastián Coates		28	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Marcelo Saracchi		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Lucas Torreira	74	22	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Rodrigo Bentancur	46	21	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Gastón Pereiro	2877	23	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	D	Diego Laxalt		25	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Giorgian De Arrascaeta	46	24	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Edinson Cavani	57	31	107	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
23	G	Daniel Schmidt		26
12	G	Shuichi Gonda		29
20	D	Tomoaki Makino		31
4	D	Sho Sasaki		29
16	D	Takehiro Tomiyasu		19
3	D	Sei Muroya		24
17	M	Toshihiro Aoyama	74	32	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Kento Misao		22
8	F	Genki Haraguchi	87	27	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Junya Ito		25
11	F	Kengo Kawamata		29
13	F	Koya Kitagawa		22

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
23	G	Martín Silva		35
12	G	Martín Campaña		29
13	D	Gastón Silva		24
5	M	Federico Valverde	46	20	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Nahitan Nandez	74	22	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Camilo Mayada	64	27	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Nicolás Lodeiro		29
11	F	Cristhian Stuani	85	32	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Jonathan Rodriguez	7546	25	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Maxi Gómez	7785	22	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Shoya Nakajima

Genki Haraguchi

OUT

Masaaki Higashiguchi

Shuichi Gonda

OUT

Maya Yoshida

Tomoaki Makino

OUT

Wataru Endo

Toshihiro Aoyama

OUT

Genta Miura

Sho Sasaki

OUT

Yuto Nagatomo

Sei Muroya

OUT

Hiroki Sakai

Kento Misao

OUT

Gaku Shibasaki

Takehiro Tomiyasu

OUT

Ritsu Doan

Tatsuya Ito

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Giorgian De Arrascaeta

Cristhian Stuani

OUT

Gastón Pereiro

Matías Vecino

OUT

Marcelo Saracchi

Nahitan Nandez

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Hajime Moriyasu

Success rate in this team:

100 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

49 %

Moriyasu vs Uruguay

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 16, 2018

Moriyasu vs Tabárez

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on October 16, 2018

Manager

Age

Match num

Oscar Tabárez

193

Success rate in this team:

49 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Tabárez vs Japan

3 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on October 16, 2018

Tabárez vs Moriyasu

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on October 16, 2018

Referee

Hyung-jin Ko

3 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Japan4 matches	General total	Uruguay2 matches	0 victory	1 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Japan1 match	Season total	Uruguay1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on March 24, 2023					Latest figure on March 24, 2023

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Key figures

End of streak for Japan after 4 consecutive matches without a win vs Uruguay (since 28/03/2003). It's a record streak. The first of history

Uruguay keeps its 7 matches with at least one goal scored in Friendlies running (since 14/11/2017). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 14/11/2012-04/09/2015 time period (16 matches).

Uruguay keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal conceded running (since 30/06/2018). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 11/10/2016-07/06/2017 time period (7 matches).

Read the next 11 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VJapan 1-0 North Korea09/12/2017

VJapan 2-1 China12/12/2017

LJapan 1-4 South Korea16/12/2017

LJapan 0-2 Ghana30/05/2018

VJapan 3-0 Costa Rica11/09/2018

VJapan 3-0 Panama12/10/2018

Overall

VColombia 1-2 Japan19/06/2018

DJapan 2-2 Senegal24/06/2018

LJapan 0-1 Poland28/06/2018

LBelgium 3-2 Japan02/07/2018

VJapan 3-0 Costa Rica11/09/2018

VJapan 3-0 Panama12/10/2018

Current form

Away

VParaguay 1-2 Uruguay05/09/2017

DVenezuela 0-0 Uruguay05/10/2017

DPoland 0-0 Uruguay10/11/2017

LAustria 2-1 Uruguay14/11/2017

VUruguay 3-0 Russia25/06/2018

LSouth Korea 2-1 Uruguay12/10/2018

Overall

VUruguay 1-0 Saudi Arabia20/06/2018

VUruguay 3-0 Russia25/06/2018

VUruguay 2-1 Portugal30/06/2018

LUruguay 0-2 France06/07/2018

VMexico 1-4 Uruguay07/09/2018

LSouth Korea 2-1 Uruguay12/10/2018

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	2	2
Drawless streak	6	4
Scoring streak	2	3
Invincibility streak	2	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	3	11
Scoring streak	3	2
Conceding streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

7	Number of games (Competition total)	5
3	Number of games (Home / Away)	1
3	Victories (Competition total)	4
2	Victories (Home / Away)	0
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
3	Losses (Competition total)	1
1	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

12	Goals scored (Competition total)	11
6	Goals scored (Home / Away)	1
9	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
2	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	2
1.71	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.2
2	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1
1.29	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.6
0.67	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

4	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	1
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
3	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	1
3-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-2 (1 times)

Bookings

6	Yellow cards (Competition total)	6
1	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	3
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Takashi Inui	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	4 goals	Luis Suárez
Takumi Minamino	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Matías Vecino
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	3 penalties	Luis Suárez
Shinji Kagawa	2 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Luis Suárez
Toshihiro Aoyama	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Lucas Torreira
Takumi Minamino	2 goals during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Matías Vecino

Historical head to head

Home

6 matches

1 v

1 d

4 l

11 gf

18 ga

Total

6 matches

1 v

1 d

4 l

11 gf

18 ga

Historical head to head

Away

6 matches

4 v

1 d

1 l

18 gf

11 ga

Total

6 matches

4 v

1 d

1 l

18 gf

11 ga

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 3	August 25, 1996
Home	5 - 3	August 25, 1996

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 1	May 26, 1985
Away	4 - 1	May 26, 1985

Latest head to head

September 05, 2014 - Rencontres amicales 2014

Japan

0 - 2

Uruguay

August 14, 2013 - Rencontres amicales 2013

Japan

2 - 4

Uruguay

August 20, 2008 - Rencontres amicales 2008

Japan

1 - 3

Uruguay

March 28, 2003 - Rencontres amicales 2003

Japan

2 - 2

Uruguay

August 25, 1996 - Rencontres amicales 1996

Japan

5 - 3

Uruguay

Best historical scorers against Uruguay

Kazuyoshi Miura	2 goals	1996 - 1996
Takuya Takagi	1 goal	1996 - 1996
Shinji Kagawa	1 goal	2013 - 2013
Shunsuke Nakamura	1 goal	2003 - 2003
Masayuki Okano	1 goal	1996 - 1996
Masakiyo Maezono	1 goal	1996 - 1996

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/05/1985. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Japan

Diego Forlán	3 goals	2003 - 2013
Sebastián Abreu	2 goals	1996 - 2008
Carlos Alberto Aguilera	2 goals	1985 - 1985
Alvaro Recoba	2 goals	1996 - 1996
Jorge da Silva	2 goals	1985 - 1985
Abel Hernández	1 goal	2014 - 2014

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/05/1985. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Uruguay

Shinji Ono	2 matches	2003 - 2008
Yuichi Komano	2 matches	2008 - 2013
Shinji Okazaki	2 matches	2013 - 2014
Yuto Nagatomo	2 matches	2008 - 2014
Eiji Kawashima	2 matches	2013 - 2014
Maya Yoshida	2 matches	2013 - 2014

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/05/1985. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Álvaro González	3 matches	2008 - 2014
Sebastián Eguren	3 matches	2003 - 2013
Maxi Pereira	3 matches	2008 - 2014
Cristian Rodríguez	3 matches	2008 - 2014
Alvaro Pereira	2 matches	2013 - 2014
Nicolás Lodeiro	2 matches	2013 - 2014