{"id":394938,"date":"2022-12-01T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394938"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T21:48:27","slug":"japan-claim-another-scalp-to-book-place-in-world-cup-last-16","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/japan-claim-another-scalp-to-book-place-in-world-cup-last-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan claim another scalp to book place in World Cup last 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Japan scored twice early in the second half to come from behind to beat Spain 2-1 in Group E on Thursday and reach the knockout stages of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another famous Japan win sees them top a wild Group E \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5<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\/1598420055561216011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alvaro Morata put Spain in front in the 11th minute at Khalifa International Stadium on Thursday, but Japan rallied after halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Ritsu Doan, who came on as a substitute at halftime, levelled the score with a left-footed shot from outside the box three minutes after the break, and Ao Tanaka added the second one from close range a few minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It took about two minutes for video review officials to confirm the ball had not gone out of bounds before the goal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Group E we will never forget you. \u2764\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Qatar2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Qatar2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1598423232364920834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Japan finished top of the standings in Group E, with Spain finishing second on goal difference \u2013 consigning Germany to elimination, despite a 4-2 win over Costa Rica on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc7e\ud835\udc89\ud835\udc82\ud835\udc95 \ud835\udc70\ud835\udc95 \ud835\udc74\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc82\ud835\udc8f\ud835\udc94 \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JPN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#JPN<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TiMUVUkz8m\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TiMUVUkz8m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/1598425421346922496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a dramatic finale to the group with qualification within sight for all four teams in the final stretch of both games.<\/p>\n<p>Japan will play Croatia for a place at the quarter-finals while Spain face Morocco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan scored twice early in the second half to come from behind to beat Spain 2-1 in Group E on Thursday and reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394939,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16671,14235,14236,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Spain also reach the knockout stages despite losing","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\/394938"}],"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=394938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394938"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394938"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}