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United Arab Emirates vs Japan Prediction & Betting tips
Very exciting game does not wait at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain, when by the date 6 of Group B in the Asian Qualifiers, the United Arab Emirates will receive a visit from Japan.
United Arab Emirates :
Things in Group B are tight, so Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia and the United Arab Emirates have an equal opportunity to become the first two and reach Russia 2018 directly.
Those led by Mahdi Ali began the group stage with a win in their visit to Japan by 1-2, the theme for them is that they have been nothing regular, since then came a 0-1 home defeat to Australia, Then beat Thailand 3-1, then lost 3-0 on their visit to Saudi Arabia, and now a 2-0 victory against Iraq, results that if they place it in the fourth place, are only one point First place that is currently occupied by Saudi Arabia.
For their part, those led by Vahid Halihodzic since losing in their debut against the Arab Emirates have not lost again, thus adding 3 victories and a draw in the last four games, to be placed in the second place that is direct zone for Russia 2018, although he knows that there is still nothing defined by how tight the group is at the moment.
Japan :
As for direct confrontations, fans in the United Arab Emirates have ample reasons to feel confident that they can get a good result here, since each time they face Japan very often finds a way to disturb them, The last 7 games between the two, the United Arab Emirates won 4 times against the 2 victories of Japan.
Japan have not won in their two trips to the Emirates for the qualifying matches for the World Cup, both parties end in draws, although it must be said that the last was 1997.
The fact is that United Arab Emirates under the direction of natural trainer Mahdi Ali, has shown up to now that you do not feel intimidated by strong teams, they have many players experienced in their ranks and very talented, such as the cases of Omar Abdulrahman And Ahmed Khalil; And while Japan will enter as a favorite, we believe that United Arab Emirates can give more of a headache, so in this game we will for the option of More than 2 Asian goals, it must be said that with this alternative, in If there are two goals, we will return the bet.
Possible alignments:
United Arab Emirates: Ali Khaseif; Walid Abbas, Tariq Ahmed, Mohanad Salem, Ali Ahmed Mabkhout; Ahmed Khalil, Khamis Esmail, Abdulaziz Sanqour, Mohamed Abdulrahman, Ismail Ahmed; Omar Abdulrahman.
Japan: S. Nishikawa; Y. Nagatomo, M. Morishige, G. Haraguchi, H. Kiyotake; Y. Kubo, Y. Ōsako, H. Yamaguchi; M. Hasebe, H. Sakai, M. Yoshida.
United Arab Emirates vs Japan head to head
01.09.16 WC Japan United Arab Emirates 1 : 2
23.01.15 CUP Japan United Arab Emirates 1 : 2
(1 : 1)
06.09.12 FI Japan United Arab Emirates 1 : 0
09.10.08 FI Japan United Arab Emirates 1 : 1
13.07.07 CUP United Arab Emirates Japan 1 : 3