{"id":8819,"date":"2025-10-14T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-beats-brazil-for-first-time-in-chaotic-comeback-win\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:45:31","slug":"japan-beats-brazil-for-first-time-in-chaotic-comeback-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-beats-brazil-for-first-time-in-chaotic-comeback-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan beats Brazil for first time in chaotic comeback win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Japan notched its first ever victory against Brazil on Tuesday evening at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, engineering a storming second-half comeback to win the friendly fixture 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>In a match marked by defensive breakdowns on both sides, Samurai Blue was able to overturn a two-goal deficit and extend its home unbeaten streak to 21 games. Brazil was coming off a 5-0 win over South Korea at the weekend, while Japan only drew 2-2 with Paraguay on Saturday thanks to a last-minute equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&rsquo;s best production in the first half came through creative link-up play between Ritsu Doan and Takefusa Kubo down the right flank. That led to the best chance of the game at 0-0 in the 22nd minute, with a Takumi Minamino flick from a Doan cross that Ayase Ueda couldn&rsquo;t quite stretch to tap in at the far post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Japan beats Brazil for first time in chaotic comeback win<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan notched its first ever victory against Brazil on Tuesday evening at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, engineering a storming second-half comeback to win the friendly fixture 3-2. In a match marked by defensive breakdowns on both sides, Samurai Blue was able to overturn a two-goal deficit and extend its home unbeaten streak to 21 games&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/japan-beats-brazil-for-first-time-in-chaotic-comeback-win\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Japan beats Brazil for first time in chaotic comeback win&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}