The Japanese team missed a great opportunity to achieve a second victory and get closer to winning a ticket to the playoffs of World Cup 2022, but in the first Sunday match they lost to Costa Rica - 0:1.

World Cup 2022

Japan - Costa Rica 0:1 (0:0)
Goals: Fuller, 81 (0:1)

Japan: Gonda; Itakura; Nagatomo (Ito H., 46); Yoshida; Yamane (Mitoma, 62); Endo W.; Doan (Ito J., 67); Morita; Soma (Minamino, 82); Kamada; Ueda A. (Asano, 46)
Bench: Kawashima; Schmidt Da.; Taniguchi; Tomiyasu; Sakai H.; Tanaka A.; Shibasaki; Kubo T.; Machino Shuto; Maeda
Yellow Cards: Yamane 44; Itakura 84; Endo W. 93

Costa Rica: Navas K.; Oviedo; Duarte Ó.; Waston; Fuller; Calvo F.; Torres G. (Aguilera B., 65); Tejeda; Borges C. (Salas Y., 89); Campbell (Chacon D., 95); Contreras (Bennette J., 65)
Bench: Hernandez Ant.; Sequeira P.; Alvarado; Matarrita; Martinez C.; Lopez D.; Venegas; Vargas J. P.; Zamora Alvaro; Wilson R.; Ruiz
Yellow Cards: Contreras 41; Borges C. 62; Calvo F. 70