MILAN – Yuto Nagtomo played 90 minutes for Japan as they beat Jordan to finish top of their Asian Cup group and set up a quarter-final clash with UAE.

Having previously seen off Palestine and Iraq, the Samurai Blue made it three wins from three with today’s 2-0 success at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium. Keisuke Honda opened the scoring on 24 minutes before Shinji Kagawa made sure of victory with a second in the 82nd minute.