The hosts took the lead after just five minutes, Miki Yamane’s incisive through ball met the run of Takuma Asano and when his attempt was charged down by a flying Rustam Yatimov, the ball broke only as far as Kyogo Furuhashi who fired into an empty net.
Japan’s advantage lasted just three minutes as a fine cross from Manucher Safarov reached the head of Ehsoni Panshanbe and he re-directed the ball smartly home past goalkeeper Shuichi Gonda. .....
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