Maybe things are yet to really get moving but another night of sparky football is not widely matched today by unfettered praise.

Japan in particular is taking it easy.

The surprise rest of the night -- the Blue Samurai defeating a much fancied Colombia 2-1 -- has, so far, had something of a muted reaction back home, the 10 million circulation newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, preferring to point out how its supporters were outnumbered by a thronging South American contingent.

The UK’s Sun though is far more praising, and descriptive, of the Samurai support in Saransk.

"Japan showed once again why they have the best fans at the World Cup after they stayed behind to CLEAN up the stadium following their win against Colombia," it gushes, something they did too at the last World Cup apparently after losing to the Ivory Coast.

Cleanliness though is catching clearly as hours later, Senegal fans stayed behind to clean up before leaving the stadium after a 2-1 win over a hapless Poland.

"This is the best thing you will see today," read one tweet that carried a video of the tidy work.

But Colombian daily, El Tiempo, is on another page wholly.

"Why are we going to the World Cup to show our vulgarity" it shouts with its Foreign Ministry reproaching the behaviour of fans who violated Russian laws and insulted Japanese fans it says by posing videos of the themselves sneaking an odd beer or two into the Mordovia Arena last night.

"What leads a person to invest a considerable sum of money -- it is estimated an economic plan to go to the orbital appointment exceeds 20 million pesos (about $9,300) -- arrive in Russia, record objectionable videos and then upload them to the network, to exhibit?" El Tiempo asks.

Maybe the ruse is to detract from a woeful display from Colombia, its El Mundo newspaper correctly posing the question pre-match of whether its leading individuals would gel.

"The pending issue for the Tricolour is to improve the collective game. It is clear that it has individuals of the highest level, players of proven hierarchy, but in the last time the great achilles heel has been in the game as a whole," is the wordy, if accurate, analysis.