Full time: Japan 1-1 (1-3 pen) Croatia
Scorers: Maeda 44 / Perisic 55
Yellow cards:
Kovacic, Barisic (Croatia)
Lineups:
Japan: Shuichi Gonda; Takehiro Tomiyasu, Maya Yoshida, Shogo Taniguchi, Junya Ito, Wataru Endo, Hidemasa Morita (Ao Tanaka 105) , Yuto Nagatomo (Kaoru Mitoma 64), Ritsu Doan (Takumi Minamino 87) , Daizen Maeda (Takuma Asano 64), Daichi Kamada (Hiroki Sakai 75)
Croatia: Dominik Livakovic; Borna Barisic, Josko Gvardiol, Dejan Lovren, Josip Juranovic, Mateo Kovacic ( Nikola Vlasic 99) , Marcelo Brozovic, Luka Modric (Lovro Majer 99), Ivan Perisic (Mislav Orsic 106) , Bruno Petkovic (Ante Budimir 62) (Marko Livaja 105) , Andrej Kramaric (Mario Pasalic 68)
Referee: Ismail Elfath (USA)
Venue: Al Janoub Stadium
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