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Japan 4-0 Belgium - May 31, 2009 / Kirin Cup 2009

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Kirin Cup 2009 - Kirin Cup

National Stadium - Tokyo - Japan

May 31, 2009

42 520

Japan

4 - 0

Belgium

Yuto Nagatomo

21'

Shunsuke Nakamura

23'

Shinji Okazaki

60'

Kisho Yano

77'

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21' - Goal Yuto Nagatomo21

23' - Goal Shunsuke Nakamura23

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46' - Substitution Makoto Hasebeis substituted by Hideo Hashimoto photo Keisuke Honda

46' - Substitution Shunsuke Nakamurais substituted by Keisuke Honda46

60' - Goal Shinji Okazaki60

61' - Substitution Yasuhito Endois substituted by Yuki Abe61

61' - Substitution Geoffrey Mujangi Biais substituted by Stein Huysegems

66' - Substitution Kengo Nakamurais substituted by Shinzo Koroki66

68' - Substitution Sébastien Pocognoliis substituted by Jelle Vossen

69' - Substitution Shinji Okazakiis substituted by Kisho Yano69

73' - Substitution Marcus Tulio Tanakais substituted by Satoshi Yamaguchi73

77' - Goal Kisho Yano77

81' - Substitution Kevin Roelandtsis substituted by Mousa Dembélé

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Japan

4 - 0

Belgium

Japan Belgium

Team line-ups

Japan

Narazaki

Seigo Narazaki

Japan

B.date15/04/1976

Age33 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Tanaka73

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Japan

B.date24/04/1981

Age28 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

Nakazawa

Yuji Nakazawa

Japan

B.date25/02/1978

Age31 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Nagatomo21

Yuto Nagatomo

Japan

B.date12/09/1986

Age22 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

Uchida

Atsuto Uchida

Japan

B.date27/03/1988

Age21 years

H1m76

positionRight full-back

Endo61

Yasuhito Endo

Japan

B.date28/01/1980

Age29 years

H1m78

positionCentre Midfield

Nakamura66

Kengo Nakamura

Japan

B.date31/10/1980

Age28 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

Hasebe46

Makoto Hasebe

Japan

B.date18/01/1984

Age25 years

H1m80

positionRight central midfielder

Nakamura2346

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age30 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Okazaki6069

Shinji Okazaki

Japan

B.date16/04/1986

Age23 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

Okubo

Yoshito Okubo

Japan

B.date09/06/1982

Age26 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Seigo Narazaki		33	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	73	28	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yuji Nakazawa		31	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yuto Nagatomo	21	22	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Atsuto Uchida		21	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yasuhito Endo	61	29	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kengo Nakamura	66	28	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Makoto Hasebe	46	25	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura	2346	30	86	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shinji Okazaki	6069	23	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Yoshito Okubo		26	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Belgium

Stijnen

Stijn Stijnen

Belgium

B.date07/04/1981

Age28 years

H1m88

positionGoalkeeper

Vermaelen

Thomas Vermaelen

Belgium

B.date14/11/1985

Age23 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

Swerts

Gill Swerts

Belgium

B.date23/09/1982

Age26 years

H1m79

positionLeft central defender

Alderweireld

Toby Alderweireld

Belgium

B.date02/03/1989

Age20 years

H1m86

positionRight central defender

Pocognoli68

Sébastien Pocognoli

Belgium

B.date01/08/1987

Age21 years

H1m81

positionLeft full-back

De Laet

Ritchie De Laet

Belgium

B.date28/11/1988

Age20 years

H1m85

positionRight full-back

Simons

Timmy Simons

Belgium

B.date11/12/1976

Age32 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

Roelandts81

Kevin Roelandts

Belgium

B.date27/08/1982

Age26 years

H1m85

positionRight Midfielder

Haroun

Faris Haroun

Belgium

B.date22/09/1985

Age23 years

H1m88

positionCentre Midfield

Mujangi Bia61

Geoffrey Mujangi Bia

Belgium

B.date12/08/1989

Age19 years

H1m76

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

Martens

Maarten Martens

Belgium

B.date02/07/1984

Age24 years

H1m76

positionOffensive Midfielder

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Stijn Stijnen		28	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Thomas Vermaelen		23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gill Swerts		26	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Toby Alderweireld		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Sébastien Pocognoli	68	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ritchie De Laet		20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Timmy Simons		32	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kevin Roelandts	81	26	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Faris Haroun		23	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Geoffrey Mujangi Bia	61	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Maarten Martens		24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

23.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Yuki Abe	61	27	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Satoshi Yamaguchi	73	31	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Kisho Yano	7769	25	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hideo Hashimoto	46	30	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Keisuke Honda	46	22	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Shinzo Koroki	66	22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
F	Stein Huysegems	61	26	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Jelle Vossen	68	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Mousa Dembélé	81	21	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Marcus Tulio Tanaka

Yasuyuki Konno

OUT

Yuto Nagatomo

Yuichi Komano

OUT

Shunsuke Nakamura

Keisuke Honda

OUT

Atsuto Uchida

Keiji Tamada

OUT

Yoshito Okubo

Yuki Abe

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ritchie De Laet

Filip Daems

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Takeshi Okada

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Okada vs Belgium

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 31, 2009

Okada vs Vercauteren

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on May 31, 2009

Manager

Age

Match num

Franky Vercauteren

Success rate in this team:

0 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

52 %

Vercauteren vs Japan

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on May 31, 2009

Vercauteren vs Okada

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on May 31, 2009

Referee

Rob Styles

1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Japan1 match	General total	Belgium1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Japan1 match	Season total	Belgium1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on May 31, 2009					Latest figure on May 31, 2009

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Key figures

It's the first time Shunsuke Nakamura scores 1 goal vs Belgium in his professional career

Japan keeps its 3 consecutive matches without a loss vs Belgium running (since 03/06/1999). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Shunsuke Nakamura scores 1 goal in Kirin Cup

Read the next 14 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VJapan 3-1 Syria13/11/2008

VJapan 2-1 Yemen20/01/2009

VJapan 5-1 Finland04/02/2009

DJapan 0-0 Australia11/02/2009

VJapan 1-0 Bahrain28/03/2009

VJapan 4-0 Chile27/05/2009

Overall

VJapan 2-1 Yemen20/01/2009

LBahrain 1-0 Japan28/01/2009

VJapan 5-1 Finland04/02/2009

DJapan 0-0 Australia11/02/2009

VJapan 1-0 Bahrain28/03/2009

VJapan 4-0 Chile27/05/2009

Current form

Away

VAzerbaijan 0-1 Belgium21/11/2007

LItaly 3-1 Belgium30/05/2008

LGermany 2-0 Belgium20/08/2008

DTurkey 1-1 Belgium10/09/2008

DLuxembourg 1-1 Belgium19/11/2008

LBosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 Belgium01/04/2009

Overall

LBelgium 1-2 Spain15/10/2008

DLuxembourg 1-1 Belgium19/11/2008

VBelgium 2-0 Slovenia11/02/2009

LBelgium 2-4 Bosnia and Herzegovina28/03/2009

LBosnia and Herzegovina 2-1 Belgium01/04/2009

DBelgium 1-1 Chile29/05/2009

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	8	4
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	2	2
Invincibility streak	3	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	5	3
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	3	9
Conceding streak	5	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

1	Number of games (Competition total)	1
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
1	Victories (Competition total)	0
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	1
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

4	Goals scored (Competition total)	1
4	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	1
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
4	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1
4	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	1
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
4-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

0	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
0	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Shinji Okazaki	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Kevin Roelandts
Shinji Okazaki	2 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Shinji Okazaki	2 goals during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Kevin Roelandts

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Historical head to head

Away

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Total

2 matches

0 v

2 d

0 l

2 gf

2 ga

Latest head to head

June 04, 2002 - Coupe du Monde 2002

Japan

2 - 2

Belgium

June 03, 1999 - Kirin Cup 1999

Japan

0 - 0

Belgium

Best historical scorers against Belgium

	Junichi Inamoto	1 goal	2002 - 2002
	Takayuki Suzuki	1 goal	2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/06/2002. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Japan

	Peter Van Der Heyden	1 goal	2002 - 2002
	Marc Wilmots	1 goal	2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 04/06/2002. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Belgium

Atsushi Yanagisawa	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Ryuzo Morioka	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Hidetoshi Nakata	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Naoki Soma	1 match	1999 - 1999
Teruyoshi Ito	1 match	1999 - 1999
Junichi Inamoto	1 match	2002 - 2002

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 03/06/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Gert Verheyen	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Yves Vanderhaeghe	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Geert De Vlieger	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Bart Goor	2 matches	1999 - 2002
Marc Wilmots	1 match	2002 - 2002
Jurgen Cavens	1 match	1999 - 1999