Jubilantly winning Australia, Japan won tickets to the World Cup 2022

Before the trip to Australia, Japan only needed one win to win tickets to the 2022 World Cup. The Sunrise team showed its class when winning convincingly against the home team.

This is a match where Japan played very well. They controlled the game quite well before the opponent was pushed into a corner. They controlled 57% of the game, launching 20 shots (compared to Australia’s 9).

The Japanese players were quite unlucky for most of this match. They hit the crossbar with two shots and missed a series of delicious opportunities.

It was only when Kaoru Mitoma entered the field that they were able to break this “snap”. The striker took less than 10 minutes to be on the field to score 2 goals for Japan in the last minutes.

With the victory over Australia, Japan won the ticket World Cup 2022 while being 6 points ahead of Australia (only one round left). Saudi Arabia also got this ticket without playing in the China match when they were also 4 points ahead of the Kangaroo team.

Japan is showing good form in recent times when winning 5 consecutive matches in the third qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup. Meanwhile, Australia has been disappointing when it has continuously dropped points in recent times. They were held by both Oman and China.

That puts the army of coach Graham Arnold in danger. In this match, Australia is 3 points behind Japan. That means, the Kangaroo team must win against the opponent.

In the event of failure, Australia will certainly not be able to win tickets directly to the 2022 World Cup. And if they draw with Japan, the possibility of them going on is also very small when in the last match, the team from the rising sun only confronts Vietnam team.