GAME SUMMARY: USA 3, Japan 2

USA 3 Japan 2

Goals: Pope (Twellman) 24, Dempsey (Twellman) 39, Twellman (Donovan) 50; Maki (Kaji) 60, Nakazawa (Ogasawara) 90+

USA – Hartman, Klein (Carroll, 79), Conrad, Pope, Dunivant (Pearce, 90), Noonan (Rolfe, 87), Zavagnin, Donovan, Dempsey (Olsen, 69), Wolff (Johnson, 58), Twellman (Ching, 68)

JAPAN – Kawaguchi, Tanaka (Hasebe, 55) Miyamoto, Nakazawa; Kaji, Fukunishi (Abe, 55), Endo (Sato, 46), Santos, Ogasawara, Ono (Motoyama, 68), Kubo (Maki, 46)

Stats: USA-Japan
Shots: 22-7
Saves: 2-5
Corner Kicks: 13-5
Fouls: 12-14
Offside: 2-2

Yellow cards: USA — Klein 8, Olsen 75, Pope 76.; Japan – Endo 26, Nakazawa 32.

Red cards: none

Referee: Horacio Elizondo (ARG)