In a strong dialogue in the Asian zone's top 12 matches, Group B leader Saudi Arabia men's football team came to the away game to challenge the strong Japanese men's football team, both teams are big favourites, this round of narrow road to meet. After the competition of the whole game, the Japanese men's football team won, the score was 2-0, and won the World Preliminary Round for 5 consecutive wins, the points became 18 points, ranking second, only 1 point behind the Saudi team, 13 points higher than the national football team. After this campaign, Group B was completely chaotic, if Australia won, the points would be 17 points, all three teams had a chance to qualify, and they could eventually qualify for the play-offs. Judging from the qualifying situation of the Japanese team, if it defeats Australia in the next round, it will directly advance to the World Cup!
The Japanese men's fifa rank is 26th and 2nd in Asia, while the Saudi team's FIFA ranking is 51 and 6th in Asia. In this World Preliminary Round, Saudi Arabia's performance is eye-catching, in the B group with more strong teams, Saudi Arabia scored 19 points in 7 rounds of competition, ranking first in the group, and is very promising to directly qualify for the World Cup. The Japanese men's soccer team scored 15 points in 7 rounds, 1 point more than the Australian men's soccer team, and if Morihoichi wants to directly qualify, he needs to get 3 points in this game, otherwise, once relegated to the play-offs, the Japanese men's soccer team may not be able to lock up the World Cup qualification.
Facing the strong Saudi men's team, the Japanese team did not dare to slacken off, Mori Hoichi basically continued the previous starting lineup, Daisuke also played as a center forward, Takumi Minamino was on the left, Jun Ito was also on the right, Endo, Hidemasa Morita and Tanaka Bi appeared in midfield, on the back line, in the absence of Maya Yoshida and Kenyo Fuan, Itakura and Akigo Taniguchi appeared in the position of center back, Nagatomo Yu was a left-back, Hiroki Sakai appeared at right-back, and the starting goalkeeper of the Japanese team would be Shuiichi Kwonda. In the Saudi arabian starting lineup, Albirakan is the forward center, Kanu, Muwallad and Aldosari appear, the players responsible for the midfield defense are Marki and Hassan, Blaise and Amri are in the back line, and Alovais is the Saudi goalkeeper.
In the 12th minute of the match, the Japanese team launched an attack, Nagatomo Yusuke crossed from the left, and the Saudi defender broke the siege. In the 32nd minute, the Saudi team conceded the ball, Ito Jun also formed a breakthrough, in the right side of the cross to the goal, the receiving Takushi Minamino deftly swung past the defender, and then a powerful shot bounced on the goalkeeper to score the goal, 1-0, The Japanese team broke the deadlock on the field. In the 5th minute of first-half stoppage time, the Saudi team won a corner kick opportunity, drove the ball into the box, the Japanese defender's header was released, the Saudi team crossed, and Japanese goalkeeper Shuichi Kwonda got the ball.
In the 48th minute, the Japanese team crossed from the right, and Takumi Minamino missed a good opportunity in front of the goal, which made Takumi Minamino very sorry, he had the opportunity to score twice. In the 50th minute, Japan scored again, and Jun ito scored from a distance to help Japan lead 2-0 on the field. In the end, Japan won and continued to rank 2nd in the group.