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Iran 0-3 Japan - January 28, 2019 / Asian Cup 2019

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Asian Cup 2019 - Semi-finals

Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium - Al Ain - United Arab Emirates

January 28, 2019

23 200

0 - 3

Japan

56'

Yuya OsakoAssist by Takumi Minamino

67'

Yuya Osako (penalty)

90+1'

Genki HaraguchiAssist by Takumi Minamino

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24' - Yellow card Vahid Amiri24

44' - Yellow card Omid Ebrahimi44

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46' - Yellow card Hiroki Sakai

56' - Goal Yuya Osako

58' - Substitution Vahid Amiriis substituted by Karim Ansarifard58

60' - Substitution Wataru Endois substituted by Tsukasa Shiotani

67' - Goal Yuya Osako

71' - Substitution Ashkan Dejagahis substituted by Saman Ghoddos photo Mehdi Torabi

71' - Substitution Alireza Jahanbakhshis substituted by Mehdi Torabi71

73' - Substitution Hiroki Sakaiis substituted by Sei Muroya

89' - Substitution Ritsu Doanis substituted by Junya Ito

91' - Goal Genki Haraguchi

94' - Yellow card Serdar Azmoun94

94' - Yellow card Yuto Nagatomo

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Team line-ups

Iran

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

20Azmoun94

Serdar Azmoun

Iran

B.date01/01/1995

Age24 years

H1m86

positionStriker

11Amiri5824

Vahid Amiri

Iran

B.date02/04/1988

Age30 years

H1m79

positionLeft Winger

21Dejagah71

Ashkan Dejagah

Iran

B.date05/07/1986

Age32 years

H1m81

positionOffensive Midfielder

18Jahanbakhsh71

Alireza Jahanbakhsh

Iran

B.date08/10/1993

Age25 years

H1m80

positionStriker

3Hajsafi

Ehsan Hajsafi

Iran

B.date25/02/1990

Age28 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

9Ebrahimi44

Omid Ebrahimi

Iran

B.date16/09/1987

Age31 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

5Mohammadi

Milad Mohammadi

Iran

B.date29/09/1993

Age25 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

13Kanaani

Hossein Kanaani

Iran

B.date23/03/1994

Age24 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

8Pouraliganji

Moerteza Pouraliganji

Iran

B.date19/04/1992

Age26 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

23Rezaeian

Ramin Rezaeian

Iran

B.date21/03/1990

Age28 years

H1m85

positionRight full-back

1Beiranvand

Alireza Beiranvand

Iran

B.date21/09/1992

Age26 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Alireza Beiranvand		26	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Hossein Kanaani		24	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Moerteza Pouraliganji		26	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	M	Ehsan Hajsafi		28	102	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Milad Mohammadi		25	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Ramin Rezaeian		28	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Omid Ebrahimi	44	31	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Ashkan Dejagah	71	32	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Vahid Amiri	5824	30	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Alireza Jahanbakhsh	71	25	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	F	Serdar Azmoun	94	24	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Japan

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Minamino

Takumi Minamino

Japan

B.date16/01/1995

Age24 years

H1m74

positionLeft Winger

15Osako6756

Yuya Osako

Japan

B.date18/05/1990

Age28 years

H1m82

positionSecond striker

8Haraguchi91

Genki Haraguchi

Japan

B.date09/05/1991

Age27 years

H1m77

positionLeft Winger

21Doan89

Ritsu Doan

Japan

B.date16/06/1998

Age20 years

H1m72

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

6Endo60

Wataru Endo

Japan

B.date09/02/1993

Age25 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

7Shibasaki

Gaku Shibasaki

Japan

B.date28/05/1992

Age26 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

5Nagatomo94

Yuto Nagatomo

Japan

B.date12/09/1986

Age32 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

22Yoshida

Maya Yoshida

Japan

B.date24/08/1988

Age30 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

16Tomiyasu

Takehiro Tomiyasu

Japan

B.date05/11/1998

Age20 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

19Sakai7346

Hiroki Sakai

Japan

B.date12/04/1990

Age28 years

H1m84

positionRight full-back

12Gonda

Shuichi Gonda

Japan

B.date03/03/1989

Age29 years

H1m87

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Shuichi Gonda		29	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Maya Yoshida		30	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Takehiro Tomiyasu		20	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	D	Hiroki Sakai	7346	28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Yuto Nagatomo	94	32	115	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Wataru Endo	60	25	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Gaku Shibasaki		26	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Ritsu Doan	89	20	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Yuya Osako	6756	28	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Takumi Minamino		24	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Genki Haraguchi	91	27	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	G	Amir Abedzadeh		25
22	G	Payam Niazmand		23
19	D	Seyed Majid Hosseini		22
4	D	Roozbeh Cheshmi		25
15	D	Pejman Montazeri		35
6	M	Ahmad Nourollahi		25
7	M	Masoud Shojaei		34
2	M	Vouria Ghafouri		31
10	F	Karim Ansarifard	58	28	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Mehdi Torabi	71	24	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	F	Saman Ghoddos	71	25	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
23	G	Daniel Schmidt		26
1	G	Masaaki Higashiguchi		32
18	D	Tsukasa Shiotani	60	30	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Genta Miura		23
4	D	Sho Sasaki		29
20	D	Tomoaki Makino		31
3	D	Sei Muroya	73	24	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Takashi Inui		30
14	F	Junya Ito	89	25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	F	Koya Kitagawa		22
13	F	Yoshinori Muto		26

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Vahid Amiri

Mehdi Taremi

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Yuya Osako

Koya Kitagawa

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Carlos Queiroz

Success rate in this team:

60 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

55 %

Queiroz vs Japan

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2019

Queiroz vs Moriyasu

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2019

Manager

Age

Match num

Hajime Moriyasu

Success rate in this team:

91 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

50 %

Moriyasu vs Iran

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2019

Moriyasu vs Queiroz

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on January 28, 2019

Referee

Chris Beath

2 victories	0 draw	2 losses	Iran4 matches	General total	Japan7 matches	5 victories	1 draw	1 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Iran1 match	Season total	Japan1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on March 24, 2022					Latest figure on June 02, 2022

Videos

May 01, 2019

Comments

Key figures

End of streak for Iran after 5 matches without conceding any goal in Asian Cup (since 07/01/2019). It's an equilized record streak. The last time the club reached this figure, it was on the 16/09/1980

End of streak for Iran after 5 matches without conceding any goal (since 07/01/2019). It was the best streak for the club since 06/09/2006-12/01/2007 (6 matches).

It's the first time Yuya Osako scores at least 2 goals during the same game vs Iran in his professional career

Read the next 27 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

DPalestine 1-1 Iran24/12/2018

VIran 5-0 Yemen07/01/2019

VVietnam 0-2 Iran12/01/2019

DIran 0-0 Iraq16/01/2019

VIran 2-0 Oman20/01/2019

VChina 0-3 Iran24/01/2019

Overall

VQatar 1-2 Iran31/12/2018

VIran 5-0 Yemen07/01/2019

VVietnam 0-2 Iran12/01/2019

DIran 0-0 Iraq16/01/2019

VIran 2-0 Oman20/01/2019

VChina 0-3 Iran24/01/2019

Current form

Neutral ground

LBelgium 3-2 Japan02/07/2018

VJapan 3-2 Turkmenistan09/01/2019

VOman 0-1 Japan13/01/2019

VJapan 2-1 Uzbekistan17/01/2019

VJapan 1-0 Saudi Arabia21/01/2019

VVietnam 0-1 Japan24/01/2019

Overall

VJapan 4-0 Kyrgyzstan20/11/2018

VJapan 3-2 Turkmenistan09/01/2019

VOman 0-1 Japan13/01/2019

VJapan 2-1 Uzbekistan17/01/2019

VJapan 1-0 Saudi Arabia21/01/2019

VVietnam 0-1 Japan24/01/2019

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	2	2
Unbeaten streak	8	12
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	2	2
Invincibility streak	5	5

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	5	6
Unbeaten streak	5	10
Drawless streak	7	6
Scoring streak	6	11
Invincibility streak	2	2

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

5	Number of games (Competition total)	5
4	Victories (Competition total)	5
1	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0

Goals

12	Goals scored (Competition total)	8
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	3
2.4	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.6
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0.6

Betting aid

2	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	2
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	3
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	2

Bookings

8	Yellow cards (Competition total)	7
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Serdar Azmoun	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	2 goals	Yuya Osako
Serdar Azmoun	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Yuya Osako
Ashkan Dejagah	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Genki Haraguchi
Ashkan Dejagah	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Genki Haraguchi
Serdar Azmoun	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Yuto Nagatomo
Serdar Azmoun	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Yuto Nagatomo
Serdar Azmoun	4 goals, 1 assist during the last 5 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Ritsu Doan

Historical head to head

Home

7 matches

4 v

3 d

0 l

11 gf

6 ga

Away

5 matches

0 v

1 d

4 l

3 gf

8 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

2 v

1 d

1 l

5 gf

4 ga

Total

16 matches

6 v

5 d

5 l

19 gf

18 ga

Historical head to head

Home

5 matches

4 v

1 d

0 l

8 gf

3 ga

Away

7 matches

0 v

3 d

4 l

6 gf

11 ga

Neutral ground

4 matches

1 v

1 d

2 l

4 gf

5 ga

Total

16 matches

5 v

5 d

6 l

18 gf

19 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	September 22, 1986
Neutral ground	2 - 1	October 18, 1993

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 1	December 10, 1966
Neutral ground	3 - 2	November 16, 1997

Latest head to head

October 13, 2015 - Rencontres amicales 2015

Iran

1 - 1

Japan

August 17, 2005 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Asie 2006

Japan

2 - 1

Iran

March 25, 2005 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Asie 2006

Iran

2 - 1

Japan

July 28, 2004 - Coupe d'Asie 2004

Japan

0 - 0

Iran

September 08, 1999 - Rencontres amicales 1999

Japan

1 - 1

Iran

Best historical scorers against Japan

Ali Daei	4 goals	1993 - 2005
Vahid Hashemian	2 goals	2005 - 2005
Khodadad Azizi	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Reza Hasanzadeh	1 goal	1993 - 1993
Mehdi Torabi	1 goal	2015 - 2015

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/01/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Iran

Masashi Nakayama	2 goals	1993 - 1997
Osamu Maeda	2 goals	1989 - 1989
Daisuke Oku	1 goal	1999 - 1999
Yoshinori Muto	1 goal	2015 - 2015
Masashi Oguro	1 goal	2005 - 2005
Shoji Jo	1 goal	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/01/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Ali Daei	6 matches	1993 - 2005
Javad Zarincheh	4 matches	1992 - 1999
Medhi Mahdavikia	4 matches	1997 - 2005
Sayyed Alavi	3 matches	2004 - 2005
Ebrahim Mirzapour	3 matches	2004 - 2005
Hamid Reza Estili	3 matches	1993 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 20/01/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Iran

Masami Ihara	5 matches	1989 - 1997
Yuji Nakazawa	4 matches	1999 - 2005
Tetsuji Hashiratani	4 matches	1989 - 1993
Takashi Fukunishi	4 matches	1999 - 2005
Takumi Horiike	4 matches	1989 - 1993
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	4 matches	1997 - 2005