{"id":394746,"date":"2022-11-23T10:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394746"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T15:16:49","slug":"battling-japan-stun-germany-2-1-in-thrilling-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/battling-japan-stun-germany-2-1-in-thrilling-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling Japan stun Germany 2-1 in thrilling turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan notched one of the biggest shocks at the 2022 World Cup on Wednesday with a 2-1 win over four-times world champions Germany thanks to a scintillating second half comeback in their Group E opener at the Khalifa International Stadium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Japan beat Germany.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adidasfootball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@adidasfootball<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1595431863534886912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After 33 minutes Ilkay Gundogan scored Germany&#8217;s first goal of the tournament to give his side a 1-0 lead, converting a penalty after David Raum was brought down in the penalty area by Japan goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda.<\/p>\n<p>But Japan threw caution to the wind at the start of the second half, charging at Germany\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>First, substitute Ritsu Doan levelled the score from close range after 75 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Then,with just nine minutes of regular time left, Takuma Asano sprung free down the right-hand side, and even under defensive pressure gave keeper Manuel Neuer no chance with a precise shot from a tight angle.<\/p>\n<p>The Germans came inches away from tying it up in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, with Leon Goretzka firing wide.<\/p>\n<p>Spain play Costa Rica in the other Group E game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan notched one of the biggest shocks at the 2022 World Cup on Wednesday with a 2-1 win over four-times world champions Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394747,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16911],"news_category":[16671,14235,139,14236,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Japanese goal scorers Doan and Asano play in the German Bundesliga","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394746"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394746"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}