The second ranking 5-8 duel offered an interesting fight between Japan, the last team of the elite pool, and Ireland, the best newcomer of the Tournament. European squad was verifying performance improvement from the beginning of the match and led 4:0 after only seven minutes of play. However, Japanese are not affected by any score, endured, played patiently and started to lower their opponents advantage and even managed to lead 7:6 until the halftime.

The second half was in Irish hands and turned the score in their favor. They created a seven goals advantage (14:7) under leadership of Lauren Cohen and eased a little bit. In the last ten minutes, Japan amazingly enlivened again, but did not have enough time to do more than to modify the score to final 13:15. Ireland will fight against Wales for the fifth place. Japan will play a seventh place match against Scotland.