Italy vs Japan 2013 ( Italia Japan VIDEO BELOW)
Final score and result:- Italy vs Japan 4-3 ( De Rossi, Uchida OG, Balotelli pen, Giovinco/ Honda pen, Kagawa, Okazaki)
Arena Pernambuco, Recife- Confederations Cup Group A- 19 June, 2013- 19/6/13- Wednesday- 19.00 local
Italy beat Japan in a brilliant seven goal thriller to advance to the last four, with Sebastian Giovinco scoring a 86th minute winner for the Azzurri after Japan had lead 2-0 in the first half
Italy Japan 0-1 ( Keisuke Honda penalty goal vs Italy 21′)
Italy Japan 0-2 ( Shinji Kagawa goal vs Italy 33′)
Italy vs Japan 1-2 ( Daniele de Rossi goal vs Japan 41′)
Italy vs Japan 2-2 ( Atsuto Uchida own goal vs Italy 50′)
Italy vs Japan 3-2 ( Mario Balotelli penalty goal vs Japan 52′)
Italia Japan 3-3 ( Shinji Okazaki goal v Italia 69′)
Italy vs Japan 4-3 ( Sebastian Giovinco goal vs Japan 86′)
Italy v Japan Confederations Cup attendance:- 40,489 ( Referee- Abal)
Italy starting lineup vs Japan Confederations Cup 2013:- Buffon, Maggio, Barzagli, Chiellini, De Sciglio, Montolivo, Pirlo, De Rossi, Aquilani, Giaccherini, Balotelli
Japan starting XI vs Italia Confed Cup 2013:- Kawashima, Honda, Nagatomo, Uchida, Endo, Okazaki, Kagawa, Konno, Hasebe, Maeda, Yoshida
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Great game of football, probably the best of the Confederations so far.
Massive credit to Japan, would have shocked Italy if they could defend better. And Keisuke Honda was excellent, some club will be sure to snap up him this summer as he is available on a free transfer.
love the japanese commentary and you can see that even the English comm folks were rooting for japan.
I missed watching this one but judging from the highlights only I can see that it was the most thrilling to date in this competition .. that’s the real performance by Japan if they play to their potential and I also congratulate Italy for their great spirit holding on till the end thats the attitude of winners always fight till the end !
“he’ll never ever admit it was a penalty” commentator re buffon. hilarious to hear.
Screw these refs, this is the most unfair coverage of games, get some new commentators who don’t root for one side the entire match while bashing the other for the entire game.
Italy played like shit, Japan probably exceeded expectations.
Italy scored some lucky goals, as did Japan.
The more deserving team won IMO.
That yellow to Buffon and the penalty with it was some bs, too bad the ref repaid the favor with a penalty for Italy for the handball. Italy should have won 4 -2 as Buffon played the ball like everybody saw, people take spills over goalies looking for penalties all the time, I don’t see how this was a legitimate penalty. Hopefully that official never refs another game in his life.
Italy was totally flat. Japan had the speed, the energy & the drive & it showed with a 2-0 lead. Its too bad their defence didn’t hold up.
The Italians always play too loose against teams like this(low ranking) & then they turn it up when need be but one day they will be got with a massive upset.
Japan will be a team to watch out for next year in 2014.