The Southampton defender has not always enjoyed coming up against the big striker during their Premier League tussles, but Lukaku's failure to continue his hot streak of form owed largely to Yoshida's refusal to afford him space. Yoshida epitomised Japan's dogged resilience having kept Lukaku subdued throughout a pulsating 90 minutes at the Rostov Arena. Takashi Inui is only the third player to have scored multiple goals in a World Cup tournament for Japan, after Junichi Inamoto in 2002 (2) and Keisuke Honda in 2010 (2).Eden Hazard has been directly involved in 19 goals in his 18 games for Belgium under Roberto Martinez, scoring 10 and assisting nine. There were just 10 in the previous five tournaments combined (1998, 2002, 2006, 20).
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