Japan vs Iraq match stats & report
2–1 Full time
Japan beat Iraq 2–1 in the World Cup - Qualification Asia (3rd Round - 3) on 6 October 2016. Iraq had 53% of the ball.
Japan vs Iraq match statistics
- 47% Ball possession 53%
- 12 Total shots 5
- 6 Shots on target 3
- 6 Shots off target 2
- 3 Corners 7
- 15 Fouls 14
- 2 Offsides 2
- 1 Yellow cards 3
- 0 Red cards 0
- 2 Goalkeeper saves 4
Goals and cards
- 25' Goal G. Haraguchi (assist H. Kiyotake) Japan
- 60' Goal Saad Abdul Ameer (assist Ahmed Yasin Ghani Mousa) Iraq
- 66' Yellow card Hiroki Sakai Japan
- 73' Yellow card Waleed Salim Iraq
- 82' Yellow card Mohammed Hameed Iraq
- 90' Yellow card Iraq
- 90+5' Goal H. Yamaguchi Japan
The Ghost's call
The Ghost made no call on this match before kickoff.
Team news & lineups
Japan
- 12 S. Nishikawa Goalkeeper
- 6 M. Morishige Defender
- 22 M. Yoshida Defender
- 19 Hiroki Sakai Defender
- 21 G. Sakai Defender
- 17 Makoto Hasebe Defender
- 7 Y. Kashiwagi Midfielder
- 4 K. Honda Midfielder
- 13 H. Kiyotake Midfielder
- 8 G. Haraguchi Midfielder
- 9 Shinji Okazaki Attacker
Bench H. Yamaguchi , T. Asano , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Nagatomo , M. Saito , R. Oshima , Y. Maruyama , M. Higashiguchi , S. Kagawa , T. Makino , K. Ōta , Eiji Kawashima
Iraq
- 20 Mohammed Hameed —
- 2 Ahmed Ibrahim —
- 15 Dhurgham Ismail Defender
- 14 Saad Natiq —
- 6 A. Adnan Defender
- 23 Waleed Salim —
- 9 Ahmed Yasin Ghani Mousa Attacker
- 10 Ala'a Abdul Zahra —
- 21 Saad Abdul Ameer Midfielder
- 11 Amjed Attwan —
- 8 Mohannad Abdulraheem —
Bench Mahdi Kamil , Jasem Mohammad , Bashar Rasan Bonyan , Ali Lateef , Mohammed Gassid , Ali Abdulhasan , Amjad Waleed , Mustafa Nadhim
Form guide
Japan at home
7–3–0 in 10 matches
- Scored
- 1.9 per game
- Conceded
- 0.8 per game
- Clean sheets
- 4 / 10
- Corners
- 3.3 per game
- Shots on target
- 4.9 per game
32% of their goals arrive after the 75th minute.
Iraq away
1–3–3 in 7 matches
- Scored
- 0.7 per game
- Conceded
- 2.0 per game
- Clean sheets
- 1 / 7
- Corners
- 3.2 per game
- Shots on target
- 1.8 per game
Based on 7 matches — treat these numbers lightly.