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Event

Brazil vs Japan

Started 46 days, 4 hours, 53 minutes ago

Date & Time
Mon 29th June 2026 12:00pm Local
Mon 29th June 2026 5:00pm UTC

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League
FIFA World Cup

Season
2026

Round
Round 32

Status
FT

Location
Houston, TX
United States

NRG Stadium
(68,777 Attendance)

	Casemiro		(56')
	Martinelli		(90')

Sano

(29')

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Home Team Lineup

Paquetá 46	Danilo	Marquinhos
Magalhães	Cunha Martinelli 66	Guimarães Santos 90
Casemiro 90	Becker	Júnior
Santos	Rayan

Away Team Lineup

Kamada Tanaka 78	Taniguchi	Itō
Ueda	Sano	Suzuki
Nakamura Suzuki 66	Maeda Ogawa 90	Dōan Sugawara 66
Itō Machino 78	Tomiyasu

Event Statistics

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Corner Kicks

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Ball Possession

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Goalkeeper Saves

Total passes

682

315

Passes accurate

625

261

Passes %

expected_goals

1.69

0.23

goals_prevented

-0.35

Description

The teams had previously met 14 times, including once in the World Cup: a 4–1 group stage win for Brazil at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Their latest encounter took place at the 2025 Kirin Challenge Cup last October, when Japan gained their first win ever against Brazil in a 3–2 comeback.

After 29 minutes, Japan midfielder Kaishu Sano made a solo run from the halfway line, before shotting low from outside the penalty area into the bottom left corner of the net. Japan nearly conceded seven minutes into the second half, with goalkeeper Zion Suzuki just managing to keep it off the line.

Defender Casemiro equalized for Brazil at 56 minutes, with a close-range header at the back post after a cross from Gabriel Magalhães from the left. With just a minute of added time remaining, Bruno Guimarães passed low into to Gabriel Martinelli on the left of the penalty area who shot low to the bottom right corner of the net in off the post to win the game for Brazil on a 2-1 scoreline.

The victory advanced Brazil to the round of 16, where they will face either Ivory Coast or Norway. Japan were eliminated, marking the third consecutive World Cup that they have had the lead in the knockout rounds and lost, with previous defeats to Croatia (in 2022) and Belgium (in 2018).