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Yuichi Komano’s penalty shot hits the crossbar and bounces out. Disaster for Japan. The Paraguayans made all their spot kicks and bounced out Japan, 5-3.
Check out Keisuke Honda cool as a cucumber with his shot. But so was Oscar Cardozo.
The rest of the match was a huge let down. As far as boring matches go, the one that comes to mind was Switzerland vs Ukraine in 2006 but this was not far off.
The Guaranies dedicated their win to Salvador Cabanas who is still recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.
“What we are achieving is for him,” said forward Cristian Riveros after a penalty kicks shootout victory over Japan pushed Paraguay into its first World Cup quarterfinal. “We called him from our room last week, and we’ll continue to do so.”