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Share<\/a><\/p>\n Marc Guehi counsels calm: <\/p>\n double quotation markIt\u2019s very easy to look at this one game. It\u2019s been a positive campaign and it\u2019s important we improve and stay together. It\u2019s down to us as players to find the gaps and find a way through and we didn\u2019t do that today. We had a lot of chances from set pieces. It\u2019s important we stay together, we learn from this moment and move forward.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Not a great night, obviously, for England<\/a>. But there are many caveats and qualifications. Key players were absent. They were playing a team with a very particular set of skills. Japan\u2019s goal was excellent and anything but undeserved \u2013 their entire system is build to produce such moments, after all \u2013 but it\u2019s not as if England were outclassed. The home side produced very few chances, but had Rogers lashed that late one into the roof of the net it would have saved England from the embarrassment of losing, and probably avoided a lot of criticism.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Final score: England 0-1 Japan<\/p>\n 90+5 mins: It\u2019s all over, England<\/a> are beaten and it\u2019s a historic victory for Japan!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+3 mins: A late booking for Ogawa, who caught Anderson rather than the ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and there\u2019ll be four minutes of it, give or take.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 mins: And a terrible miss from Rogers! This time Burn wins the header, it rebounds to Rogers and it sits up beautifully on his left foot but he lashes his volley high from eight yards!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 mins: Again this goes to Maguire, but he\u2019s too far out to really threaten. The clearing header goes to Hall, whose low, stinging shot is turned round the post. Another corner!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 89 mins: And another corner. England<\/a> haven\u2019t worked out a reliable way of threatening the goal from open play, so they\u2019ve settled for winning corners and hoping for the best.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 mins: Garner\u2019s corner dips onto Maguire\u2019s head, but he\u2019s too busy wrestling Watanabe to effectively aim his header. Goal kick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 86 mins: Maguire and Burn certainly increase England\u2019s threat from set pieces, and now they\u2019ve won another corner.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 85 mins: England<\/a> currently lead 8-7 on substitutions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 mins: And Maguire nearly scores in seconds! A corner, and the defender\u2019s header is cleared off the line by another recent arrival, Sugawara.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 mins: And yet more substitutions! Harry Maguire and Dan Burn replace Guehi and Konsa.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 81 mins: Some more substitutions, Japan<\/a> with the latest batch. Nakamura, Kamada and Ito are off, Machino, Sugawara, and Suzuki are on. I can\u2019t let Nakamura exit proceedings without linking to this largely undiscovered gem.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79 mins: Rashford\u2019s was apparently England\u2019s first shot on target, according to ITV\u2019s statistics. Which is odd because Rogers certainly had one, and Anderson maybe also in the first half.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 mins: Chance! And a save! Anderson crosses beyond the far post from the right, it\u2019s headed down to Rashford, and his low shot is too close to Suzuki, who shovels it away. It falls to Bowen, whose shot on the spin goes wide.<\/p>\n Jarrod Bowen goes close for England Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.26 EDT<\/p>\n 77 mins: A good cross from Bowen is half-cleared, Anderson seizes on it and goes into the area, but four defenders are upon him and he\u2019s got nowhere to go.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 mins: A fine cross from Hall, and for a moment there Japan\u2019s unflappable defence was panicked. But then they cleared, and now they\u2019ve reset.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 mins: Another couple of England<\/a> subs. Gordon and Mainoo are off, Rashford and Garner in.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 mins: Time for another hydration break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 mins: Close! Nakamura pegs it down the left, collects the pass, cuts in past Livramento and curls a shot beyond the far post. Nakamura has been impressive tonight, what an athlete.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 68 mins: The ball is played to Rogers inside the area, but he\u2019s forced away from goal and ends up playing it back to Hall, newly arrived at left-back, whose cross deflects to Suzuki.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65 mins: Japan<\/a> bring on Ogawa and Seko. Ueda and Ito go off. So that\u2019s two forwards off, a forward and a defender on.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65 mins: Rogers takes it, and hits the wall.<\/p>\n Morgan Rogers pings it straight into the wall. A waste Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.16 EDT<\/p>\n 64 mins: The substitutes have brought a bit of urgency. Rogers is fouled just outside the penalty area, and someone will have a shot from a tasty spot just to the right of the D.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 mins: Suzuki is forced into action by Rogers, a bit of a scuffed shot but it\u2019ll go down as one on target.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 mins: Substitutions! Two of England\u2019s front three go off, in Palmer and Foden, and so do the two full-backs in White and O\u2019Reilly. Solanke, Bowen, Hall and Livramento come on.<\/p>\n Here come the changes for England. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.08 EDT<\/p>\n 57 mins: England<\/a> win a couple of corners, the second ends with Konsa heading wide from beyond the far post.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 mins: Japan meanwhile have got into England\u2019s penalty area twice more since Doan forced a save from Pickford, but one move ended with a cross towards Ueda that was headed clear, and another with a shot from the edge of the area that was blocked.<\/p>\n Japan are causing all sorts of problems for the England back line. Photograph: John Walton\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.02 EDT<\/p>\n 53 mins: England<\/a> may consider introducing a striker at some stage. Perhaps a bit of Bowen might bring some extra dynamism. England\u2019s front three have had lots of nice touches in the kind of areas where nice touches are easy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 50 mins: Save! A high, long crossfield pass finds Doan, whose first touch takes him beyond Guehi and into the penalty area. But instead of crossing he tries to beat Pickford at the near post, and can\u2019t.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 mins: Palmer sends the ball curling and dipping into Suzuki\u2019s gloves.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 48 mins: England<\/a> have a corner. Harry Kane is pictured in the stands, looking neither agonised nor glum.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 mins: Peeeeeep! Ito gets the ball re-rolling.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The players are on their way back out. England<\/a> are not yet using any of their 11 \u2013 eleven \u2013 available substitutions. \u201cI\u2019ve always generally hated and ignored international friendlies, but this weekend has been a nice reality check,\u201d writes Dan Christmas. \u201cI genuinely thought we had a chance at the World Cup, but it\u2019s nice\/depressing to be reminded we have mostly mediocre players and even the good ones in mediocre form.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s all been a bit flat at Wembley. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.53 EDT<\/p>\n At this point, this can probably be classed as an encouraging humiliation. England<\/a> have never previously lost to a team from Asia. \u201cLosing at home to Japan doesn\u2019t look great but some of England\u2019s first-time passes and long passes have been really very good,\u201d writes Dean Kinsella. \u201cThis is a young team and after the old guard contest this summer\u2019s competition in the Americas this lot will be the future. I think the future looks bright.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Half time: England 0-1 Japan<\/p>\n 45+2 mins: And we have had half of the time! It\u2019s been quite a good time, really, but Japan are extremely well organised and England<\/a> can\u2019t find a way through them.<\/p>\n