FIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFC

Japan vs Bahrain, 2010 World Cup Qualifying - AFC, Round Four

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Japan
  • 47': Shunsuke Nakamura
FT
1 - 0
Bahrain

    About

    Japan are hosting Bahrain at Saitama Stadium 2002, , Japan, starting on . The match is a part of the FIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFC.

    Game Information

    Competition: FIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFC

    Venue: Saitama Stadium 2002
    Location: , Japan
    Attendance: 57,276

    Line-Ups

    JPN Japan

    No. Name
    1 Seigo Narazaki (GK)
    6 Atsuto Uchida
    2 Yuji Nakazawa
    4 Marcus Tulio Tanaka
    15 Yuto Nagatomo
    17 Makoto Hasebe
    7 Yasuhito Endo
    10 Shunsuke Nakamura
    9 Tatsuya Tanaka Yellow Card
    11 Keiji Tamada
    16 Yoshito Okubo
    Japan Substitutes:
    R Tsuzuki, Yuichi Komano, Yuki Abe, Hideo Hashimoto, Kengo Nakamura, Daisuke Matsui, Shinji Okazaki.

    BHR Bahrain

    No. Name
    1 Sayed Jaffer (GK)
    12 Fawzi Ayesh
    14 Salman Isa Ghuloom
    16 Sayed Mohammed
    3 Abdulla Marzooq
    10 Mohammed Salmeen
    7 Mohamed Hubail
    13 Mahmood Abdulrahman
    15 Abdullah Omar Yellow Card
    4 Abdulla Baba Fatadi
    8 Jaycee Okwunwanne Yellow Card
    Bahrain Substitutes:
    Abbas Ahmed, Dawood Saad, Ebrahim Ali Mishkhas, Abdoulla Abdi, Abdulla Adnan Aldakeel, Ahmed Hassan, Ismail Abdullahatif.

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