Venue Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria, Tuesday 3pm
Referee F de Bleeckere (Bel)
Odds Paraguay 15-13 Japan 3-1 Draw 9-4
TV ITV1
Radio BBC 5 Live
ParaguayManager Gerardo Martino
Fifa ranking 31
Doubtful None
Injured None
Suspended V Cáceres (one match)
JapanManager Takeshi Okada
Fifa ranking 45
Doubtful None
Injured None
Suspended None
Match pointers• Japan have only ever scored one headed goal in a World Cup game – Hidetoshi Nakata's against Tunisia in 2002
• Paraguay have lost all three of their second-round matches in World Cup history, failing to score on each occasion
• Japan have lost both of their World Cup matches against South American sides, losing 4-1 to Brazil in 2006 and 1-0 to Argentina in 1998
• Paraguay are unbeaten in four World Cup matches. Only once have they gone five matches unbeaten, with that run straddling the 1958 and 1986 World Cups
• Japan have won on the six occasions that Keisuke Honda has scored and on the 11 occasions that Shinji Okazaki has found the net for them



























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