The Spaniards began by winning the game with a score by Álvaro Morata, but the Japanese turned the score around by Ritsu Doan and Ao Tanaka in the second half so that Japan gave yet another surprise in this World Cup, not only for beating Spain but also Germany, but also for finishing as leader of group F.
As planned, Germany dominated from the start of the game, cornering the Ticos in their own territory, after several dangerous plays the Teutonic goal fell with the score of Serge Gnabry at 10 minutes, the Germans continued to attack with everything, but Keylor Navas he looked huge covering everything, despite the absolute and complete dominance of Germany the first half ended 1-0.
In the second half, the Ticos came out to give everything looking for an equalizer and Yelsin Tejada tied the game 1-1, but the emotions would come at minute 70 when, to the general astonishment, Juan Vargas would score Costa Rica’s second goal to go ahead and enter In the classification, to the joy of their fans, Spain was losing to Japan, but that changed at minute 73 with Havertz’s goal to equalize everything 2-2. This result once again left Costa Rica out, which continued to seek to go ahead but Havertz scored his second of the game to send Germany ahead 3-2, but only minutes later came Fullkrug’s fourth for Germany’s final 4-2 victory, despite everything both were left out of the world cup.
Group F ended with Japan as the leader with 6 points, Spain finished second with 4, Germany reached 4 points, but with a lower goal difference than Spain and Costa Rica finished last with 3 points.
In the round of 16 Japan faces Croatia and Spain faces Morocco.
