JAPAN Gonda Muramatsu, Hiroki Sakai, Yoshida, Suzuki Otsu, Yamamurt, Usami, Yamaguchi Sugimoto, Saito

EGYPT El-Shenawy Fathi, Fathy, Hegazy, Ramadan Gaber, Hassan, Gomaa, El-Nenny Salah, Mohsen

The Blue Samurai went on to comfortably top Group D after a 1-0 win and goalless draw with Morocco and Honduras respectively, and will be hoping to secure their passage to the semi-finals for the first time since they won bronze in 1968.

The 2010 Asia Games champions are likely to stick with the same side that were held by second-place Honduras.

Egypt, meanwhile, secured their passage to the quarter-final with a 3-1 win over Belarus to clinch second place in Group C behind gold medal favourites Brazil after a 3-2 defeat to Canarinho and a 1-1 draw with New Zealand.

The Pharoahs were backed to make the final by Red Devils coach Georgi Kondratyev, but the Africans are set to lose captain Mohamed Aboutrika and striker Emad Moteab, who will return to their club side Al Alhy ahead of their African Champions League clash with Ghanaian side Berekum Chelsea.

• Japan's last appearance in an Olympic quarter-final was at Sydney 2000, when they drew 2-2 with the United States.

• The Blue Samurai last reached an Olympic semi-final in 1968, suffering a 5-0 hammering at the hands of eventual gold medallists Hungary.
   
• They did, however, beat Mexico 2-0 to clinch the bronze medal that year.
   
• Japan's first ever Olympic quarter-final was at the Berlin Games in 1936, where they suffered an 8-0 defeat against 1934 World Cup and eventual gold medallists Italy.
   
• Takashi Sekizuka's (pictured right) team were the first Japan side to defeat Spain at any level, when they beat La Roja 1-0 at Hampden Park in their first Group D clash.
  
  
• Japan finished bottom of their group in the last Olympics in Beijing, having lost all three fixtures.
   
• Egypt have not qualified for an Olympic Games since Barcelona 1992, where they crashed out in the first round.

• The Pharoahs have reached the quarter-finals on four occasions, bowing out at Paris 1924 and Los Angeles in 1984.

• They did, however, reach the bronze medal match in Amsterdam in 1928 and Tokyo in 1964, but missed out on a medal on both occasions. 

• Egypt have won the gold medal at the All-Africa Games on two occasions, Nairobi 1987 and Herare 1995, and a bronze in Lagos in 1973.