Kick-off: 4.00pm local (1.00pm GMT).FIFA world ranking: Germany 11, Japan 24.Germany had now lost a game at the World Cup finals after scoring the opening goal for the first time since their quarter-final with Bulgaria in East Rutherford in 1994 (27 games)..Germany had now lost consecutive games at the World Cup finals for the first time since their opening game of the 1982 tournament when Algeria came from behind to win 2-1 in Gijon..Germany had now lost their opening game at a World Cup finals for a third time; also 1982 versus Algeria and 2018 versus Mexico. .Aged 19 years and 270 days, Jamal Musiala became the youngest player to play for Germany in a game at the World Cup finals since Karl-Heinz Schnellinger against Czechoslovakia in Helsingborg on 11 June 1958 (19 years and 72 days). When he subsequently came on as a late substitue, Youssoufa Moukoko became the new record holder for their youngest-ever player at a World Cup tournament (18 years and three days)..This was the first time that Japan had won a game at the World Cup finals after conceding the opening goal (played ten, lost seven) .Eight of Japan’s 26-man squad currently played their club football in Germany (19 in Europe). In their first World Cup finals in 1998, all of their 22 players played in the domestic J League..Yūto Nagatomo became the first player to play for Japan at four World Cup finals..This game was played on the day of a national holiday in Japan (Labour Thanksgiving Day)..A penalty had now been awarded in six of the ten games played so far in this World Cup tournament..