World Cup 2010 team news: Paraguay v Japan

Venue Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria, Tuesday 3pm Referee F de Bleeckere (Bel) Odds Paraguay 15-13 Japan 3-1 Draw 9-4 TV ITV1 Radio BBC 5 Live Paraguay Manager Gerardo Martino Fifa ranking 31 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended V Cáceres (one match) Japan Manager Takeshi Okada Fifa ranking 45 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Match pointers • Japan have only ever scored one headed goal in a World Cup game – Hidetoshi Nakata's against Tunisia in 2002 • Paraguay have lost all three of their second-round matches in World Cup history, failing to score on each occasion • Japan have lost both of their World Cup matches against South American sides, losing 4-1 to Brazil in 2006 and 1-0 to Argentina in 1998 • Paraguay are unbeaten in four World Cup matches. Only once have they gone five matches unbeaten, with that run straddling the 1958 and 1986 World Cups • Japan have won on the six occasions that Keisuke Honda has scored and on the 11 occasions that Shinji Okazaki has found the net for them