The World Cup qualifiers in the Asian region ushered in a highly concerned game, the Japanese men's football team and the Saudi men's football team began to compete, in the end, Saudi Arabia lost, the score was 0-2, the Japanese team won, won 5 consecutive wins, the points became 18 points, the qualifying situation is very good, the fastest case, if the Japanese team defeats the Australian men's football team in the next round, then they will be 1 round in advance!
The Saudi men's soccer team is the first place in Group B, and after the first seven rounds, the 6th-place Saudi team in Asia has achieved an unbeaten record of 6 wins and 1 draw, scoring 10 goals, conceding only 3 goals, and reaching 19 points. Japan's FIFA ranking is no. 2 in Asia, their record is 5 wins and 2 losses, the points are 15 points, the past 4 rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament, the Japanese team has won all the best, very good form. In this group, Australia is 14 points, in 3rd place. As for the national football team, we only scored 5 points in 7 rounds of competition, and the hope of appearing on the World Cup field was extremely slim.
Before the game, since Saudi Arabia's points are 19 points, theoretically, the win is 22 points, which will lead the Japanese team by 7 points, and if the B group leader gets 3 points, Saudi Arabia will advance to the World Cup in advance. Once Japan wins, the battle for Group B will be complicated, with Japan, Saudi Arabia and Australia all having a chance to finish in the top two.
The first goal of the match occurred in the 32nd minute, when the Japanese men's football team attacked on the right side, breakthrough master Ito Jun also broke through on the right side, the Saudi defender could not keep up with his footsteps, and then, Ito Jun also sent the ball to the box, Takushi Minamino flashed the angle of the shot, and then a powerful shot broke through the Saudi team's gate, the score came to 0-1, the Saudi team fell behind. Takumi Minamino was very happy after the goal, and he and Jun Ito also hugged each other to celebrate the goal.
The game came to the 50th minute, the Japanese team scored again, Ito Jun also directly chose to shoot after taking the ball, a near-perfect world wave made it difficult for the Saudi goalkeeper to save, the Japanese team led 2-0 on the field, this goal made the Japanese players celebrate madly, and the Saudi players were very frustrated on the field, and their manager also looked bad.
It has to be said that Ito Jun has once again become the key gentleman in the game, the last round against the national football team, the Japanese winger made a penalty, and scored a header, this game against Saudi Arabia, Ito Jun also broke out again, making 2 goals, two consecutive rounds of the World Preliminary Round of 12, he made 4 goals, is the new thigh of the Japanese team. After 3 minutes of stoppage time, Saudi Arabia still could not score, losing 0-2!