Goals from substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano in the last 15 minutes gave Japan a stunning 2\u002D1 upset over four\u002Dtimes champions Germany.
Then Asano, who plays for Bochum, sprinted clear of Nico Schlotterbeck and beat Neuer from a narrow angle in the 83rd minute of the first competitive meeting between the two nations.The match was played a day after Argentina’s 2-1 upset loss to Saudi Arabia.
Before Wednesday’s game, Germany’s players covered their mouths during the team photo in an apparent rebuke to FIFA following its decision to stop plans to wear armbands to protest discrimination in host nation Qatar.Article content Nancy Faeser, Germany’s sports minister, attended the match at the Khalifa International Stadium and was sitting beside FIFA president Gianni Infantino while wearing the same “One Love” armband that FIFA had outlawed with its threats of consequences.
It was only the third time Germany had lost its tournament-opening game after defeats against Algeria in 1982 and Mexico in 2018. In the otherGermany outplayed Japan for much of the match with 24 attempts on goal compared to Japan’s 11. Despite giving away the penalty, Japan goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda made a string of saves.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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