The Costa Rican football team realizes the opportunity and defeats the sharp Japan in the World Cup game. Best Episodes / Article

The Japanese started the game actively, but Costa Rica sat on the defensive. Slow and pragmatic football, in which there were not many good moments in the first half.

The second half started at a much higher pace, with the Japanese national team attacking more actively. But these attacks were not successful. The result of the game was revealed only in the 81st minute – the first serious attack of this half in the performance of the Costa Rica national team, and Keisher Fuller opened the result in the 81st minute of the game!

Costa Rica takes the lead

Japan tried to equalize, but Costa Rica goalkeeper Keylor Navas and a solid defense smothered those efforts.

The two teams have met twice before, and the last of them four years ago was celebrated by Japanese football players.

In the first match of Subgroup E, Japan surprisingly beat Germany 2-1, while Costa Rica lost 0-7 against Spain.

32 national teams are competing for the World Cup in Qatar, which are divided into eight groups in the first stage of the tournament and will play a round-robin tournament until December 2. The two best teams from each group will enter the elimination stage, which will end with the final on December 18.

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