VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Kyodo) - Japan brought the secondary passage into the World Cup round of 16 on Thursday, losing 1-0 to Poland yet advancing because of a Colombia prevail upon Senegal and the FIFA reasonable play focuses framework supporting the Samurai Blue.
Akira Nishino's group completed second in Group H and will confront Group G victors Belgium in the primary knockout round.
The result spared Japan's head mentor from in any event a few inquiries regarding his hazardous choice to begin the diversion with a group demonstrating six changes to the one that performed well in a gutsy 2-2 attract with Senegal Ekaterinburg, leaving every one of the four of his Russia 2018 goalscorers on the seat.
Colombia beat Senegal 1-0 on account of a second-half objective by protector Yerry Mina and the South Americans completed best of Group H to set up a conflict with Group G sprinters up England.
Talking before the last Group G amusements later on Thursday, Nishino stated, "They (England and Belgium) are both world-class groups so it is an awesome test for us to confront them, and we need to do great investigation and set up our group and our methodologies."
Senegal and Japan both completed on four focuses having been given their first annihilations of the competition Thursday, and with a similar objective contrast and number of objectives scored.
Be that as it may, because of the West Africans' poorer disciplinary record - they completed with six yellow cards to Japan's four - they will go home.
The outcome implies Japan achieve the knockout stage for the third time in their six World Cups however Nishino needed to confront some troublesome inquiries concerning his choices for the match at a sweltering Volgograd Arena.
After much hypothesis about his place in the group, Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima demonstrated his value in stupendous form in the main half, simply keeping out a free header from Kamil Grosicki.
After the break Kawashima, who made exorbitant mistakes that prompted Japan surrendering in their initial two recreations, was compelled to dash from his line to jump on a through-ball as Robert Lewandowski came at pace.
At that point came the objective all of Japan was fearing. Rafal Kurzawa swung a free kick to the back post where Jan Bednarek volleyed Poland ahead with a little more than 30 minutes remaining.
As news sifted through that Colombia had scored in Samara the two groups shut everything down and the amusement came to a standstill, much to the irritation of the larger part Russian group.
"The way in which the group qualified was not the underlying objective," said Nishino. "I am not excessively upbeat about this, but rather I constrained my players to do what I said. It's the World Cup, and in some cases these things can't be stayed away from."
"There was booing in the stadium and I am certain that the players heard that and I feel that was lamentable."
Having effectively met all requirements for the round of 16, Belgium and England used their squad players in their last Group G experience. The Belgians rolled out nine improvements from their past match while the English exchanged eight players.
Adnan Januzaj nestled into victor six minutes after the restart, sparing Belgium from completing second behind England on reasonable play focuses.
Belgium mentor Roberto Martinez anticipated the match with Japan, saying, "We are a more grounded assemble than we were before the amusement. We're confronting Japan, we must be prepared for it."
In the other Group G coordinate, Tunisia completed with a 2-1 prevail upon Panama to guarantee third place, leaving the Central Americans base without any focuses and a less nine objective contrast.
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