England - Japan

The Austrian country is still the cradle of great friendly matches, not only between Spain and Saudi Arabia , and the next game against South Korea but also the one who has lived among the selections of candidates, and one that many say they achieved comfortably pass the group stage.

Thus, the selected England faced Japan's power with a party that could well be classified as "accidents", not the injuries, but also because the chance had much to do on the final result.

The score was opened for Japan, with a goal from Marcus Tulio Tanaka just six minutes, forcing then to England to seek out the party seeking to defeat an opponent who decided to withdraw and betting on the counterattack.

The ultra-defensive decision persuaded the group led by Fabio Capello to take over the volume achieved in the game, winning even the execution of a penalty at 57th minute, which could not be exploited by Frank Lampard.

Attempts continued, and it was Tanaka who in an unfortunate play, scored against his own net on 73 minutes, achieving a temporal equalizer for the English side.

Ten minutes later, and another own goal (marked by Nakazawa) England coach managed to win by 2-1 and took leave of the friendly encounter facing the 2010 World Cup .