All times listed are
local time. In the third minute,
Carlos Sánchez blocked
Shinji Kagawa's 20-yard shot with his arm, denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity and the referee pointed to the penalty spot before showing the midfielder a straight red card. After lengthy protests, Sánchez eventually left the field and Kagawa slotted the penalty into the bottom right corner of the net.
José Pékerman then replaced
Juan Cuadrado with
Wílmar Barrios at the half-hour mark, and an equaliser arrived nine minutes later, from a
Juan Fernando Quintero free kick, shot low under the jumping wall which the goalkeeper failed to keep out. In the second half,
David Ospina dived full length to his left to stop
Takashi Inui's curling 20-yard shot.
Yuya Osako then headed the ball into the far corner of the net from a
Keisuke Honda corner from the left. With 13 minutes left,
James Rodríguez's strike from inside the box was turned over the crossbar by the outstretched leg of Osako. Quintero became the first Colombian player in history to score at two World Cups. Japan became the first Asian team to beat a side from South America in the competition's history. Honda became the first player from an Asian nation to provide an assist in three different World Cup tournaments since 1966.
Eiji Kawashima (35 years, 91 days) became the oldest player to appear for Japan in a World Cup finals match. Senegal had the first clear chance in the 18th minute,
M'Baye Niang dragging an effort wide after a break. Senegal took the lead when
Idrissa Gueye's 20-yard shot took a huge deflection off
Thiago Cionek to flick in Poland goalkeeper
Wojciech Szczęsny's goal and give Senegal the lead.
Robert Lewandowski stepped up to float a 25-yard free-kick over the wall,
Khadim N'Diaye dived to turn the ball away.
Grzegorz Krychowiak hooked a high ball back towards his own goal from inside the Senegal half and with Szczesny attempting to intercept by coming out of his penalty area, Niang knocked the ball past him before side footing into an unguarded goal.
Arkadiusz Milik slotted a
Łukasz Piszczek cross wide at the near post.
Dawid Kownacki's headed attempt was saved late on by N'Diaye but the goalkeeper was beaten by Krychowiak's header with five minutes to go after a free kick from the right. Cionek became the first Polish player to score an own goal in a World Cup match. Cionek's own goal was only the second time an African nation has benefited from an own goal in a World Cup match, after
Andoni Zubizarreta for
Spain against Nigeria in 1998. Senegal continued their impressive undefeated run in an opening World Cup match, having beaten
France 1–0 in 2002.
Japan vs Senegal The two teams had faced each other three times, most recently in a friendly in 2003, won by Senegal 1–0. Wagué became the youngest African goalscorer at a World Cup, at the age of 19 years and 268 days. With his goal, Honda became the first Japanese player to score at three different World Cups, as well as the top scoring Asian player in World Cup history with four goals. Japan equalled their best points tally of four after two group games at a World Cup, just as they did as co-hosts in
2002.
Poland vs Colombia The two teams had met in five matches, most recently in a 2006 friendly, won by Colombia 2–1. Poland were the first European nation to be eliminated from the 2018 World Cup. Including Colombia's victory against Poland, there were 14 World Cup goals scored on 24 June 2018 - the most on a single day of action in the competition (maximum 3 games) since 10 June 1990 (also 14).
Japan vs Poland The two teams had met twice, most recently in a friendly game in 2002, won by Japan 2–0. Poland beat Japan for the first time in an official match, having defeated Japan in four unofficial matches. Poland won each of their 14 games in which they scored first in World Cup finals. Poland kept a clean sheet at the World Cup for the first time since winning
1–0 against Portugal in 1986. On another side, since the new millennium, Poland had repeated their poor performances in 2002 and 2006 World Cups, eliminated after losing two opening matches before grabbing a late victory in the final match. There was some criticism of the final minutes in the game, as both sides appeared to settle for the 1–0 scoreline.
Senegal vs Colombia The two teams had met only once, a 2014 friendly game which ended in a 2–2 draw. With Senegal being the last African team to be knocked out of Russia 2018, there were no teams from Africa in the round of 16 for the first time since the stage was introduced in 1986. Colombia were the only team to reach the knockout stage despite losing their opening match of the tournament. Senegal became the third team to be eliminated despite winning their opening game of the tournament (also Iran and Serbia); and even moreover, this was the first time Senegal got eliminated from the group stage, despite owning a huge advantage prior to the match against Colombia. The last time as many as three teams failed to get through the group stage despite winning their opener was in 2002 (Argentina, Costa Rica, and Russia). ==Discipline==