🇯🇵 Japan 2–2 Belgium 🇧🇪
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Japan ▲ Belgium ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Takayuki Suzuki 59' 59 Suzuki Junichi Inamoto 67' 67 Inamoto Marc Wilmots 57' 57 Wilmots Peter Van der Heyden 75' 75 Heyden
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇯🇵 Japan
Seigo Narazaki · GK 12 Narazaki Kōji Nakata · CB 16 Nakata Naoki Matsuda · CB 3 Matsuda Ryuzo Morioka · CB 4 Morioka Kazuyuki Toda · CM 21 Toda Junichi Inamoto · CM 5 Inamoto Hidetoshi Nakata · AM 7 Nakata Takayuki Suzuki · CF 11 Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa · CF 13 Yanagisawa Shinji Ono · LW 18 Ono Daisuke Ichikawa · RW 22 Ichikawa 🇧🇪 Belgium
Geert De Vlieger · GK 1 Vlieger Peter Van Der Heyden · LB 12 Heyden Jacky Peeters · RB 15 Peeters Daniel Van Buyten · CB 16 Buyten Eric Van Meir · CB 4 Meir Johan Walem · RM 10 Walem Yves Vanderhaeghe · DM 18 Vanderhaeghe Timmy Simons · CM 6 Simons Bart Goor · LM 8 Goor Gert Verheyen · CF 11 Verheyen Marc Wilmots · CF 7 Wilmots Players sit in vertical bands (GK · defence · midfield · attack) by their listed position — no
left/right placement is inferred. Order within a band is squad-sheet order, not a formation.
Pre-match model (Elo→Poisson, 90-min W/D/L)
🇯🇵 Japan 38.1% draw 27.0% 34.9% Belgium 🇧🇪
Model P(result)
27.0%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#157
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.89
−log₂ P(observed)
Japan's run D 🇧🇪 2–2 Belgium, Group W 🇷🇺 1–0 Russia, Group W 🇹🇳 2–0 Tunisia, Group L 🇹🇷 0–1 Turkey, Round of 16 Belgium's run D 🇯🇵 2–2 Japan, Group D 🇹🇳 1–1 Tunisia, Group W 🇷🇺 3–2 Russia, Group L 🇧🇷 0–2 Brazil, Round of 16
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