

Apart from the goal, wow Suzuki was amazing. Game lacked momentum, I think Sweden were happy with the point, Japan might've wanted the win, but positives for both teams as they qualified. I don't see Sweden getting too far in the knockouts with a tie against France/Norway being challenging. Japan could cause an upset against Brazil, I didn't think they looked amazing considering the opponents they had in the group. We will see, these knockout games look very interesting so far

Japan

A very close match tbh with a slight offensive and tactical advantage to the Samurai team in my opinion, every offensive play looks like they practiced it hundreds of times and it’s just always a joy watching them. Sweden’s midfield is their weakness in my opinion , yea they got Ayari and Bergvall but they really miss the key pass which is very unfortunate since they got lethal trio upfront .. 🇸🇪🇯🇵



Japan

The 'gyok' - 0 shots - 3/14 duels won


Japan

I had a 2-1 prediction for this, and a 4-1 prediction for Netherlands x Tunisia. A potential 6 pointer ends up being a 1 pointer, idk why I bother with these Game was fine



Gyok nation we are going to the knockouts

Sweden

was expecting a better match from these two. at least elanga gave us a banger. lowkey felt sweden would win this.

Japan

Suzuki masterclass but that elanga goal moved me

Sweden

Elanga scoringa banger in the big '26


Japan


First of all fuck Junya Ito and Kaisho Sano. Admittedly dont have too much to say about this one because i mostly watched it as background, incredible Sweden goal though. Im very surprised Sweden managed to stay on Japan their level here, i rated Japan a lot higher. Going to be very tough for Japan up against Brazil but it does feel like a World Cup Classic too. Very excited for that game. Sweden likely up against France i believe but that might chance still, either way dont think Sweden will be getting too far. Their issues are still quite clear i think and thats just not having enough good players to feed their good strikers, while also having poor defenders. Man of the match for Elanga because that was a beauty of a goal.

Sweden


A draw. Fair. Both were attacking still think Japan could’ve scored more VAMOS JAPON!!!! 🇯🇵❤️


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Match info
- Competition
- World Cup
- Round
- MD3
- Date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Kick-off
- 23:00
- Venue
- AT&T Stadium
- Referee
- I. Barton
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