Friendly

Ukraine 2–1 Japan

Tuesday 27 Mar 2018 · Liège, Belgium (neutral)

Ukraine2–1Japan

Goals6

0′15′30′45′60′75′90′Rakitskiy Ueda Makino Makino Karavaev Karavaev

21′1–0Yaroslav Rakitskiy Ukraine
21′2–0Naomichi Ueda Ukraine · own goal
41′2–1Tomoaki Makino Japan
41′2–2Tomoaki Makino Japan
69′3–2Oleksandr Karavaev Ukraine
69′4–2Oleksandr Karavaev Ukraine

Line-ups

Starters, then substitutes who came on. ● a goal; yellow and red marks are cards; ↑ on, ↓ off.

Ukraine

12Andriy PyatovGK
2Bohdan ButkoDF ↓62′
5Eduard SobolDF ↓62′
18Ivan OrdetsDF
44Yaroslav RakitskiyDF●
6Taras StepanenkoMF
8Ruslan MalinovskyiMF ↓61′
10Yevhen KonoplyankaMF ↓79′
11MarlosMF ↓90′
17Oleksandr ZinchenkoMF ↓80′
41Artem BesedinFW

Came on

29Vitaliy Buyalskiy↑61′
4Mykola Matviyenko↑62′
20Oleksandr Karavaev●●↑62′
15Viktor Tsygankov↑79′
14Ruslan Rotan↑80′
34Ivan Petryak↑90′

Japan

1Eiji KawashimaGK
5Yuto NagatomoDF
20Tomoaki MakinoDF●● ↓63′
21Gotoku SakaiDF
22Naomichi UedaDF
4Keisuke HondaMF ↓65′
7Gaku ShibasakiMF ↓79′
8Genki HaraguchiMF ↓87′
16Hotaru YamaguchiMF
17Makoto HasebeMF ↓80′
9Kenyu SugimotoFW ↓56′

Came on

13Yu Kobayashi↑56′
2Tomoya Ugajin↑63′
14Yuya Kubo↑65′
18Shoya Nakajima↑79′
26Kento Misao↑80′
11Takashi Usami↑87′

Elo

World Football Elo before kick-off, and what the result did to it.

Ukraine: 1768 → 1779
Japan: 1808 → 1797

Expected score for Ukraine: 44.3% (a draw counts half). An upset — the lower-rated side won.

Head to head

Meeting 3 of 3, 2002–2018.

Ukraine wins: 2
Draws: 0
Japan wins: 1

Form either side

Ukraine

Before

0–2 v Iceland 5 Sep 2017 · FIFA World Cup qualification 2017
2–0 v Kosovo 6 Oct 2017 · FIFA World Cup qualification 2017
0–2 v Croatia 9 Oct 2017 · FIFA World Cup qualification 2017
2–1 v Slovakia 10 Nov 2017 · Friendly
1–1 v Saudi Arabia 23 Mar 2018 · Friendly

After

0–0 v Morocco 31 May 2018 · Friendly
4–1 v Albania 3 Jun 2018 · Friendly
2–1 v Czech Republic 6 Sep 2018 · UEFA Nations League 2018
1–0 v Slovakia 9 Sep 2018 · UEFA Nations League 2018
1–1 v Italy 10 Oct 2018 · Friendly

Japan

Before

0–1 v Belgium 14 Nov 2017 · Friendly
1–0 v North Korea 9 Dec 2017 · EAFF Championship 2017
2–1 v China PR 12 Dec 2017 · EAFF Championship 2017
1–4 v South Korea 16 Dec 2017 · EAFF Championship 2017
1–1 v Mali 23 Mar 2018 · Friendly

After

0–2 v Ghana 30 May 2018 · Friendly
0–2 v Switzerland 8 Jun 2018 · Friendly
4–2 v Paraguay 12 Jun 2018 · Friendly
2–1 v Colombia 19 Jun 2018 · FIFA World Cup 2018
2–2 v Senegal 24 Jun 2018 · FIFA World Cup 2018

Every Ukraine v Japan match3

From Ukraine's side.


27 Mar 2018	Japan	2–1	Neutral	Friendly	—
12 Oct 2005	Japan	1–0	Home	Friendly	—
21 Mar 2002	Japan	0–1	Away	Friendly	—

Score: openfootball · Scorers: ESPN · Line-ups: ESPN · Cards: ESPN