In the final game on Sunday, Japan will take on Tunisia in the second Group F clash of the day, at the Estadio BBVA (or, under FIFA rules, Estadio Monterrey), kicking off at 2pm. Japan are coming off that thrilling 2-2 draw with the Netherlands, where the Samurai Blue managed to come from behind twice to end level with the European heavyweights. Tunisia were thrashed by Sweden 5-1 at the same stadium in the opening round.<\/p>\n
Japan will be without attacker Takefusa Kubo. The Real Sociedad playmaker, who delivered the assist as Japan scored their late equaliser against the Netherlands, sustained a knee injury in that game and is out.<\/p>\n
A loss here and Tunisia would join those already knocked out of the World Cup before the final group games.<\/p>\n
Japan: Zion Suzuki, Ko Itakura, Hiroki Ito, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Ao Tanaka, Ritsu Doan, Keito Nakamura, Junya Ito, Daichi Kamada, Kaishu Sano, Ayase Ueda<\/p>\n
Tunisia: Aymen Dahmen, Ali Abdi, Montassar Talbi, Omar Rekik, Dylan Bronn, Yan Valery, Hannibal Mejbri, Ellyes Skhiri, Anis Ben Slimane, Sebastian Tounekti, Elias Saad<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the final game on Sunday, Japan will take on Tunisia in the second Group F clash of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-750109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}