Japan v Croatia - Starting Line-Ups - No Surprises For Kranjcar, Zico Starts With Kaji and Ogasawara

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Japan v Croatia - Starting Line-Ups - No Surprises For Kranjcar, Zico Starts With Kaji and Ogasawara

Submitted by Pavlos Skoufis on Sun, 18/06/2006 - 12:01.

The starting line-ups for the Group F World Cup match between Japan and Croatia. No major changes for Croatia's Kranjcar whose 11 players are constant throughout the World Cup matches, while Ogasawara makes his debut appearance for Japan.

Zico also started with Kaji, Nakamura, Takahara and Kawaguchi under Japan's goalposts. Kranjcar believes his team can win the match, as the performance against Brazil showes.

JAPAN

CROATIA


23. KAWAGUCHI Yoshikatsu	1. PLETIKOSA Stipe
5. MIYAMOTO Tsuneyasu (C)	2. SRNA Darijo
7. NAKATA Hidetoshi	3. SIMUNIC Josip
8. OGASAWARA Mitsuo	4. KOVAC Robert
9. TAKAHARA Naohiro	5. TUDOR Igor
10. NAKAMURA Shunsuke	7. SIMIC Dario
13. YANAGISAWA Atsushi	8. BABIC Marko
14. SANTOS Alessandro	9. PRSO Dado
15. FUKUNISHI Takashi	(C) 10. KOVAC Niko
21. KAJI Akira	17. KLASNIC Ivan
22. NAKAZAWA Yuji	19. KRANJCAR Niko

Substitutes


1. NARAZAKI Seigo	12. DIDULICA Joe
12. DOI Yoichi	23. BUTINA Tomislav
2. MONIWA Teruyuki	6. VRANJES Jurica
3. KOMANO Yuichi	11. TOKIC Mario
4. ENDO Yasuhito	13. TOMAS Stjepan
6. NAKATA Koji	14. MODRIC Luka
11. MAKI Seiichiro	15. LEKO Ivan
16. OGURO Masashi	16. LEKO Jerko
17. INAMOTO Junichi	18. OLIC Ivica
18. ONO Shinji	20. SERIC Anthony
19. TSUBOI Keisuke	21. BALABAN Bosko
20. TAMADA Keiji	22. BOSNJAK Ivan