Match Report
3 points and 1 places separated them: Japan U19 2nd with 5, Colombia U19 1st with 8. On recent form Japan U19 sat only 6th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Per game in the league, Japan U19 were scoring 0.67 and conceding 0.67, Colombia U19 1.67 and 1, against a competition average of 1.17 goals per team per game.
Japan U19 had not lost in 7 games.
The match was played at Stade Parsemain in Fos-sur-Mer (capacity 12,500). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 1-2.