| Score | 1-1 :: penalties 5-4 to United Arab Emirates |
| Referee | Alireza Faghani |
| Competition | AFC Asian Cup Quarter-final |
| Venue | ANZ Stadium, Sydney |
| Attendance | 19,094 |
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Manager: Javier Aguirre
| Gaku Shibasaki | 81 |
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| Yoshinori Mutō for Takashi Inui | 46 |
| Gaku Shibasaki for Yasuhito Endo | 54 |
| Yohei Toyoda for Shinji Okazaki | 65 |
Manager: Mahdi Ali Hassan Redha
| Ali Mabkhout | 7 |
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| Ismail Ahmed for Abdulaziz Haikal | 54 |
| Majed Hassan for Amer Abdulrahman | 54 |
| Habib Al Fardan for Ahmed Khalil | 58 |
| Ismail Al Hammadi | 26 | Y |
| Khamis Esmaeel | 45 | Y |
| Ismail Ahmed | 116 | Y |
| Omar Abdulrahman | 119 | Y |