Netherlands vs. Japan team news: Eight Premier League players named for World Cup Group F opener

Ronald Koeman has selected Crysencio Summerville successful his Netherlands XI for Sunday's World Cup fixture against Japan.

Despite the West Ham United winger lone making his elder planetary debut earlier this month, helium gets the motion connected the close flank.

As good arsenic the Championship attacker, Koeman has selected 7 players who ply their commercialized successful the Premier League, including skipper Virgil van Dijk.

Amid speculation regarding his nine future, Jan Paul van Hecke partners the Liverpool prima successful the mediate of the defence.

After his beardown 2nd fractional of the play with Roma, Donyell Malen is selected arsenic the fig nine, portion Manchester City midfielder Tijjani Reijnders is the astir precocious of the 3 Oranje players successful the motor room.

Japan sanction 9 players who started triumph implicit England

Meanwhile, Japan brag Hajime Moriyasu has selected 9 of the players that started the 1-0 triumph implicit England astatine Wembley Stadium successful March.

Kaoru Mitoma was a known wounded absentee, portion Junya Ito besides misses retired for the Asian giants.

Daizen Maeda and Takefusa Kubo are the 2 players who travel into the team. It remains to beryllium seen whether Maeda oregon Keito Nakamura volition beryllium deployed astatine near wing-back.

Ayase Ueda, who netted 25 goals for Feyenoord successful this season's Eredivisie, leads the attack.

Crystal Palace prima Daichi Kamada takes his spot successful the motor room, with Bayern Munich defender Hiroki Ito named successful the backmost three.

This crippled kicks disconnected six hours earlier Sweden and Tunisia quadrate disconnected successful the different opening fixture of Group F.

Netherlands XI: Verbruggen; Dumfries, Van Hecke, Van Dijk, Van de Veen; De Jong, Gravenberch; Summerville, Reijnders, Gakpo; Malen

Japan XI: Suzuki; Taniguchi, Watanabe, H Ito; Doan, Sano, Kamada, Nakamura; Kubo, Maeda; Ueda