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Japan excelled by beating Tunisia 4-0 in the thousandth game in the history of the World Cup

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By Edgardo Avelar

The Japan team did not hesitate to take advantage of Tunisia’s weakness to beat them 4-0 in the duel celebrating the match in the history of the World Cups and where the Japanese team swept the Tunisians to win with two goals from Ayase Ueda, one from Daichi Kamada and another from Junya Ito.

After the Netherlands beat Sweden 5-1, it was imperative that the Rising Sun team came out to defeat an opponent that, under the command of the Frenchman Hervé Renard in place of the dismissed Sabri Lamouchisuccumbed to a much superior opponent and with a fixed belief of what they were looking for on the field of play.

For that reason the “Blue Samurais” did not hesitate to come out and propose the game from the beginning of the match and with just four minutes on the clock they already dominated the actions with Kamada’s goal from a pass from Keito Nakamura, after which the Asians imposed conditions with dominance in the middle of the field.

Then, Kamada himself stepped into the area with danger in the 9th minute, where Tunisia was saved with a timely appearance from defender Dylan Bronn, so that a minute later it was goalkeeper Aymen Dahmen, who prevented the goalin a dangerous attack by Takehiro Tomiyasu.

Tunisia wanted to stop what was seen as a massacre and made some adjustments at the back to change to five defenders, but in the 31st minute, the team led by Hajime Moriyasu increased the difference with a right-footed shot by Uedato the corner from outside the area, with assistance from Kou Itakura.

JAPAN EXPANDS THE ADVANTAGE!

A great pass behind Ayase Ueda’s back for Junya Ito who withstood the defender’s charge and beat the goalkeeper with precision pic.twitter.com/QKvOOyahIj

— Telemundo Deportes (@TelemundoSports) June 21, 2026

Japan slowed down at the end of the first half and although they began the second with a retainer of possession, they did not worry the Tunisian defense until in the 69th minute. Ueda took advantage of a mistake by Mohamed Ben Hmida and put a ball to Ito, who scored from the right.

The importance of the thousand-game event brought important people such as Takamoto’s Hisako to the Monterrey stadium, who saw how her team continued ruthlessly in search of more goals, where Former True Madrid and Rayados de Monterrey defender Sergio Ramos were also witnesses.the midfielder also from the royal team Sergio Canales, as well as the Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov, legend of his country’s team.

In the 84th minute the Asians made it 4-0 with a header from Ueda after a pass from Kaishu Sanoto confirm the comfortable and comprehensive victory that allows them to stand with four points, the same as the Netherlands, which leads the group for having scored one more goal. Sweden adds three units and Tunisia, already eliminated, none.

The group will be defined on the third date when Japan goes against Sweden and the Netherlands against the weak Tunisia, therefore, everything seems to indicate that the Dutch team under the command of Ronald Koeman will be the first in Group F and Japan will follow it.

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