By Opta Analyst | Created at 2026-06-21 04:11:08 | Updated at 2026-06-21 06:17:49
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Follow Tunisia vs Japan at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on this page, where you’ll be able to keep up to date with the stats as the game is played in Monterrey within our Opta-powered match centre.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Tunisia vs Japan stats from their 2026 FIFA World Cup Group F meeting at Estadio Monterrey on 20 June.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Tunisia vs Japan: Pre-Match Opta Facts
- This will be the 1,000th match in FIFA World Cup history. It is being played 96 years after the first matches in the history of the tournament, when Montevideo hosted France-Mexico (4-1) and USA-Belgium (3-0).
- Tunisia and Japan are meeting at the FIFA World Cup for the second time. Their first encounter came in the 2002 group stage, where Japan won 2-0 on home soil, a match that notably included Hidetoshi Nakata’s only World Cup goal.
- Tunisia’s 5-1 defeat to Sweden on MD1 was their heaviest defeat in their FIFA World Cup history, while in only two of their previous six appearances at the tournament have they lost their opening two games, doing so in 1998 against England and Colombia and in 2018 against England and Belgium.
- Against Sweden on MD1, Tunisia became the second side on record (since 1966) to concede three goals from outside the box in a FIFA World Cup match after Chile against Germany in 1982, while they’ve only conceded more goals overall at a single edition of the tournament in 2018 (8) and 2006 (6).
- Five of Japan’s seven goals since the start of the 2022 FIFA World Cup have been either scored (3) or assisted (2) by a substitute, with their 89th minute equalsier against Netherlands last time out assisted by substitute Koki Ogawa.
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