1998 FIFA World Cup France ™

Group matches

Japan - Croatia

0:1 (0:0)

Match	Date	Time	Venue / Stadium	Attendance
27	20 June 1998	14:30	Nantes / La Beaujoire	35500

Match Officials

Referee Ramesh RAMDHAN (TRI)	Assistant Referee 1 Merere GONZALES (TRI)
Fourth Official Gunter BENKO (AUT)	Assistant Referee 2 Achmat SALIE (RSA)

Goals scored

Davor SUKER (CRO) 77'

Japan

Line-up

[20]
Yoshikatsu KAWAGUCHI (GK)
[2]
Akira NARAHASHI (-79')
[3]
Naoki SOMA
[4]
Masami IHARA (C)
[6]
Motohiro YAMAGUCHI
[8]
Hidetoshi NAKATA
[9]
Masashi NAKAYAMA (-61')
[10]
Hiroshi NANAMI (-84')
[17]
Yutaka AKITA
[18]
Shoji JO
[19]
Eisuke NAKANISHI

Substitute(s)

[1]
Nobuyuki KOJIMA
[5]
Norio OMURA
[7]
Teruyoshi ITO
[11]
Shinji ONO
[12]
Wagner LOPES (+84')
[13]
Toshihiro HATTORI
[14]
Masayuki OKANO (+61')
[15]
Hiroaki MORISHIMA (+79')
[16]
Toshihide SAITO
[21]
Seigo NARAZAKI
[22]
Takashi HIRANO

Coach

Takeshi OKADA (JPN)

Croatia

Line-up

[1]
Drazen LADIC (GK)
[4]
Igor STIMAC (-46' HT)
[6]
Slaven BILIC
[7]
Aljosa ASANOVIC
[8]
Robert PROSINECKI (-67')
[9]
Davor SUKER (C)
[13]
Mario STANIC (-88')
[14]
Zvonimir SOLDO
[17]
Robert JARNI
[20]
Dario SIMIC
[21]
Krunoslav JURCIC

Substitute(s)

[2]
Petar KRPAN
[3]
Anthony SERIC
[5]
Goran JURIC
[10]
Zvonimir BOBAN
[11]
Silvio MARIC (+67')
[12]
Marijan MRMIC
[15]
Igor TUDOR (+88')
[16]
Ardian KOZNIKU
[18]
Zoran MAMIC
[19]
Goran VLAOVIC (+46' HT)
[22]
Vladimir VASILJ

Coach

Miroslav BLAZEVIC (BIH)

Cautions

Robert PROSINECKI (CRO) 26'
, Hiroshi NANAMI (JPN) 41'
, Eisuke NAKANISHI (JPN) 70'
, Mario STANIC (CRO) 83'
, Yutaka AKITA (JPN) 89'

Expulsions

a.e.t.:	After extra time	(C):	Captain	PSO:	Penalty Shoot-out
GK:	Goalkeeper	N:	Not eligible to play	I:	Injured
Y:	Yellow cards	Pos:	Positions	A:	Absent
D:	Defender	M:	Midfielder	Min:	Minutes played
GF:	Goals for	GA:	Goals against	PK:	Penalty Kicks
FC:	Fouls Committed	FS:	Fouls Suffered	R:	Direct Expulsions
F:	Forward	SG/S:	Shots on Goal/Shots	Y: 2Y=R:	Yellow cards Expulsions due to Second Caution