Spain Women vs Japan Women 2024 Olympics predictions: Can the world champions make a winning start on debut?
World champions Spain make their debut at the Olympics and begin their quest for gold when they face Japan.
Spain Women vs Japan Women 2024 Olympics prediction: Can the world champions make a winning start on debut?
Spain Women vs Japan Women Latest Prediction
The showdown between Spain Women vs Japan Women occurs at 4pm (UK time) on Thursday 25th July at Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes.
This is a rerun of a Group C game from the 2023 World Cup when Japan routed Spain 4-0, but the result snapped the eventual winners into action for the rest of the tournament. This time, the game should indicate just how far both nations can go in France and, regardless of the result, should provide plenty of entertainment for the purists.
Spain earned a spot at the Olympics for the first time after winning 3-0 against the Netherlands in the semifinals of the UEFA Women’s Nations League. Goals from Jenni Hermoso, Aitana Bonmati, and Ona Batlle secured their place in the tournament. While achieving this, they simultaneously played in front of a record attendance of 21,856 at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville.
Japan, meanwhile, secured a spot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a 2-1 victory over North Korea in February. The Nadeshiko, world champions in 2011, have yet to taste Olympic success in five previous attempts, with their best run coming at London 2012 when they reached the final only to lose to the USA.
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Spain Women latest team news
La Roja will arrive with many of their star players in imperious form, especially Aitana Bonmatí, who won The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2023. She was central in Barcelona’s Champions League final victory over Lyon. Other members of the Spanish team who are likely to perform exceptionally well in Paris include Alexia Putellas, Jenni Hermoso, Irene Paredes, and Salma Paralluelo.
Japan Women latest team news
Sitting seventh in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings, Japan boast a squad packed with quality, headlined by 150-cap defender Saki Kumagai and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Golden Boot winner Hinata Miyazawa.
Elsewhere, Yui Hasegawa has developed into one of the finest central midfielders in the world and she’ll be ably supported by the likes of Liverpool’s Fuka Nagano and starlet Aoba Fujino, while West Ham United’s Riko Ueki is poised to lead the line in what should be the team’s standard 3-4-2-1.
Spain Women vs Japan Women head-to-head
Japan emphatically ended a four-game winless run against Spain when they ran out 4-0 winners in New Zealand at last summer’s World Cup finals.
Spain Women vs Japan Women H2H | |||||||
Date | Score | Ground | |||||
31/07/2023 | Japan Women 4-0 Spain Women | Sky Stadium, Wellington | |||||
15/11/2022 | Spain Women 1-0 Japan Women | Estadio La Cartuja, Sevilla | |||||
05/03/2020 | Spain Women 3-1 Japan Women | Inter & Co Stadium, Orlando | |||||
02/06/2019 | Spain Women 1-1 Japan Women | Stade Gérard Houllier, Le Touquet | |||||
01/03/2017 | Japan Women 1-2 Spain Women | Estádio Municipal Bela Vista, Algarve |
How to watch Spain Women vs Japan Women Live
Spain Women and Japan Women kicks off on Thursday, 25 July, at 4pm (UK time) and will be broadcast live in the UK on Eurosport 1. You can stream the Olympics online on Eurosport and Discovery+, where every piece of the action will be available, and also on the BBC iPlayer app and BBC website, which can broadcast a maximum of two live streams of Olympic action at any one time.