Iran Vs Japan Live Streaming, Analysis & Match Report : Kabaddi World Cup 2016

“Iran Beat Japan with 38-34 and confirm its place to semi final.”

Today, two team will play to fixed their place in semifinals. Iran and Japan meeting today to get their ticket to semifinal. Both teams are very strong specially their defance. Both team are Unbeaten till now in the tournament.

Team Iran : Meraz Shiekh (All Rounder ), Fazal Atrachali ( Defender ) , Suleman (Defender) ,  Nabibaksh( Raider) ,  Abolfaza (All Rounder ) , Mohsheen ( Raider ), Farhad ( Defender ) , Md. Smaile.
Team Japan :Kazuhiro Takano ( All Rounder ) Masayuki Shimokawa (Captain), Terukazu Nitta (All rounder ), Etsuki Manita (All rounder ), Takamitsu Kono (Defender ), Shingo Saito (Defender ). Tetsuro Abe( Defender ).

Iran has shown their intent within first 5 minutes of the game, as they were able to all out Japan at 6th minute. No raider from Japan was able to make a impression in front of Fazal and other defenders from Iran, by the half time score line was 9-19 in favor of Iran.

Second half started in a positive note for Japan as their captain Shimokawa, got some crucial touch point. In the second half Iran has substituted all most all of their key player expect Fazal, which gave them window to Japan to make a come back, as a result of which Japan was able to all out Iran at 36th minute.

But this effort came so late from Japan, it only helped them to reduce the loss margin less then 7, which gave them 1 point from this match. The final score line from the match 34-38 in favor of Iran, and with this win Iran confirm its place in semifinal.

Source : Star Sports 3.