Game: Japan vs. México
Date: Sunday, June 13th
Time: 1:00 a.m. Eastern, 12:00 a.m. Central, 10:00 p.m. Pacific, 2:00 p.m. Japan, 5:00 a.m. UTC
Venue: Kanseki Stadium Tochigi (Utsonomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan)
All-time record: Japan has won four of the five contests against México with El Tri winning the fifth, a 2-1 victory in the 2007 World Cup Qualifiers. Japan had won the first leg 2-0 however, and advanced to the World Cup in China. The teams met in the following World Cup in Germany, where Japan beat México 4-0 en route to their only World Cup win to date.