Player ratings Japan 0-0 Greece.

Ref: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador) 6,46. Sent off: 38' Kostas Katsouranis. Att: 39.485 (Arena das Dunas, Natal).

Japan: Eiji Kawashima 6,79 - Atsuto Uchida 6,58, Yuto Nagatomo 5,97, Maya Yoshida 5,83, Keisuke Honda 6,01, Yasuyuki Konno 5,97, Hotaru Yamaguchi 5,86, Makoto Hasebe 5,47 (46' Yasuhito Endō 5,66), Shinji Okazaki 5,24, Yoshito Okubo 6,01, Yuya Osako 5,86 (57' Shinji Kagawa 5,90). - coach: Alberto Zaccheroni 5,60. = average: 5,93 [vulnerable]     

Greece: Orestis Karnezis 6,40 - Kostas Manolas 6,19, Vasilios Torosidis 6,33, Sokratis Papastathopoulos 5,97, José Holebas 6,15, Ioannis Maniatis 5,51, Panagiotis Giorgios Kone 6,15 (81' Dimitrios Salpingidis), Ioannis Fetfatzidis 5,04 (41' Giorgios Karagounis 6,36), Kostas Katsouranis 4,44, Georgios Samaras 5,51, Kostas Mitroglou 5,42 (35' Theofanis Gekas 5,79). - coach: Fernando Santos 6,20. = average: 5,79 [mediocre]