On the evening of October 15, Beijing time, in the fourth round of Group C of the Asian Round of 18 of the World Preliminary Championship, the Japan men's football team failed to continue its winning streak, drawing 1-1 at home with the Australia men's football team, and the opening 3 consecutive wins were ended, which means that there is no winning team in this round of 18.
In Asian football, Japan has the strongest overall strength, and this World Preliminary Championship has won 9 consecutive games, including the round of 36, and the round of 18 starts 7-0 national football, 5-0 Bahrain, 2-0 Saudi Arabia, and leads the standings. So far, Japan has become the first team in football history from any continent to win nine consecutive matches after the start of the World Preliminary Tournament and keep conceding zero goals.
Heading into the fourth round, Japan face Australia at home, who won their first round of 18 matches at home to the national football team in the previous round. In the last round of 12, Japan beat Australia home and away, including a 2-1 win at home.
In the latest FIFA rankings, Japan ranked 16th, Asia ranked 1st, Australia ranked 25th, and Asia ranked 4th.
In the 6th minute, Hisashi hit the side-netting with a shot from a small angle. In the 34th minute, Kaoru Mikasa cut inside and fired a shot that grazed the post, and the above two shots showed that Japan was scoreless.
In the first half, Japan had only 1 of 6 shots on target and 5 corners with 70% possession, and still failed to score, while Australia only had 1 shot on target and did not get a corner kick opportunity.
In the second half, Japan continued to lay siege to Australia's backline.
In the 52nd minute, Hisashi broke through on the right and crossed to the goal, and the Australia player stretched out his foot and kicked the ball into his own goal, which the goalkeeper confiscated. In the 56th minute, Hisashi crossed again, and Takumi Minamino's header was deflected.
In the 58th minute, the Japan backline conceded a goal:
Australia's cross from the right side of the field to the goal, Shogo Taniguchi cleared in front of the goal and turned into a self-imposed own, Japan fell behind 0-1 at home, which was also the team's first goal conceded in the round of 18.
In the 76th minute, Japan will equalize:
Nakamura burst into the box with the ball and passed it to goal, Burgess poked the ball into his own goal, and Australia also made their own own.
After that, Japan fought back frantically and failed to overtake the score to complete the reversal, and finally the two sides drew 1-1.
After Japan was forced to draw by Australia, accumulated 10 points in 4 rounds, continued to lead the standings, but pitted the national football team, because Australia is one of the main opponents of the national football competition for group qualification, before the game were generally optimistic that Japan could win smoothly, and was taken away by Australia 1 point, which is definitely bad news for the national football team, but also affects the entire group qualifying situation, not only affecting the national football team, but also affecting Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Indonesia.