3:5 (0:2)
- Masato YAMAZAKI (74')
- Yasuhito ENDO (85' PEN)
- Hideo HASHIMOTO (90'+1)
- Nemanja VIDIC (28')
- CRISTIANO RONALDO (45'+1)
- Wayne ROONEY (75', 79')
- Darren FLETCHER (78')
Referee Benito ARCHUNDIA (MEX)
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Summary
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Line-up
JPNENG 
- 22 Yosuke FUJIGAYA (GK)
- 2 Sota NAKAZAWA
- 5 Satoshi YAMAGUCHI (C)
- 7 Yasuhito ENDO
- 9 LUCAS
- 11 Ryuji BANDO
(-85'
)
- 13 Michihiro YASUDA
- 17 Tomokazu MYOJIN
- 21 Akira KAJI
- 27 Hideo HASHIMOTO
- 30 Masato YAMAZAKI
- (GK) Edwin VAN DER SAR 1
- (C) Gary NEVILLE 2
- Patrice EVRA 3
- Rio FERDINAND 5
- CRISTIANO RONALDO 7
- ANDERSON 8
- Ryan GIGGS 11
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(-70')
Nemanja VIDIC 15 - NANI 17
-
(-68')
Paul SCHOLES 18
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(-74')
Carlos TEVEZ 32
Substitute(s)
- 1 Naoki MATSUYO (GK)
- 29 Atsushi KIMURA (GK)
- 8 Shinichi TERADA
(+85')
- 10 Takahiro FUTAGAWA
- 18 RONI
- 19 Takumi SHIMOHIRA
- 20 Shu KURATA
- 23 Takuya TAKEI
- 6 Yohei FUKUMOTO
- 14 Shoki HIRAI
- 16 Hayato SASAKI
- 24 Kenta HOSHIHARA
- (GK) Tomasz KUSZCZAK 29
- (GK) Ben AMOS 40
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(+74')
Wayne ROONEY 10 - PARK Ji Sung 13
- Michael CARRICK 16
- Daniel WELBECK 19
- RAFAEL 21
- John O SHEA 22
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(+70')
Jonny EVANS 23
-
(+68')
Darren FLETCHER 24
- Darron GIBSON 28
- Dimitar BERBATOV 9
Coaches
NISHINO Akira (JPN)
(SCO) Alex FERGUSON
Officials
- Referee: Benito ARCHUNDIA (MEX)
- Assistant Referee 1: Hector DELGADILLO (MEX)
- Assistant Referee 2: Marvin TORRENTERA (MEX)
- Fourth official: Mohamed BENOUZA (ALG)
- Misses next match if booked
- Absent
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