🇯🇵 Japan 1–0 Russia 🇷🇺
2002 World Cup · Group. tournament · tables
Goals
Japan ▲ Russia ▼ 0' 15' 30' 45' 60' 75' 90' Junichi Inamoto 51' 51 Inamoto
Starting line-ups
List Pitch
🇯🇵 Japan
Seigo Narazaki · GK 12 Narazaki Kōji Nakata · CB 16 Nakata Tsuneyasu Miyamoto · CB 17 Miyamoto Naoki Matsuda · CB 3 Matsuda Shinji Ono · LM 18 Ono Tomokazu Myojin · RM 20 Myojin Kazuyuki Toda · CM 21 Toda Junichi Inamoto · CM 5 Inamoto Hidetoshi Nakata · CM 7 Nakata Takayuki Suzuki · CF 11 Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa · CF 13 Yanagisawa 🇷🇺 Russia
Ruslan Nigmatullin · GK 1 Nigmatullin Yuri Kovtun · LB 2 Kovtun Yuri Nikiforov · CB 3 Nikiforov Andrei Solomatin · RB 5 Solomatin Viktor Onopko · CB 7 Onopko Marat Izmailov · CM 20 Izmailov Alexey Smertin · CM 4 Smertin Igor Semshov · LM 6 Semshov Valery Karpin · RM 8 Karpin Yegor Titov · CM 9 Titov Ruslan Pimenov · CF 19 Pimenov 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 38.6% draw 27.0% 34.4% Russia 🇷🇺
Model P(result)
38.7%
P of the observed 90-min outcome
Upset rank
#209
of 487 · −log₂ P
Upset index
1.37
−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 Russia's run W 🇹🇳 2–0 Tunisia, Group L 🇯🇵 0–1 Japan, Group L 🇧🇪 2–3 Belgium, Group
Head-to-head at the World Cup No prior World Cup meetings.