FIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFC

FT Thursday, August 31, 2017
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Japan WWWDD 2
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JPN202
Saitama Stadium 2002 · ESPN3

Match Report

Head to Head

JPN leads series 2-0-3

Lineups

JPN

  1. Eiji KawashimaG
  2. 19Hiroki SakaiD
  3. Yuto NagatomoD
  4. Gen ShojiD
  5. 22Maya YoshidaD
  6. 24Yosuke IdeguchiM
  7. Hotaru YamaguchiM
  8. 11Takashi InuiM
  9. Makoto HasebeM
  10. Yuya OsakoF
  11. 18Takuma AsanoF

AUS

  1. 1Mathew RyanG
  2. 5Mark MilliganD
  3. 6Matthew SpiranovicD
  4. 3Brad SmithD
  5. 20Trent SainsburyD
  6. 23Tom RogicM
  7. 22Jackson IrvineM
  8. 7Mathew LeckieM
  9. 21Massimo LuongoM
  10. 10Robbie KruseF
  11. 14James TroisiF

Timeline

  1. 41' Takuma Asano (Japan) Goal at 41'
  2. 42' Yuya Osako (Japan) Yellow Card at 42'
  3. 61' Tomislav Juric (Australia) Substitution at 61'
  4. 70' Tim Cahill (Australia) Substitution at 70'
  5. 75' Genki Haraguchi (Japan) Substitution at 75'
  6. 82' Yosuke Ideguchi (Japan) Goal at 82'
  7. 86' Mustafa Amini (Australia) Substitution at 86'
  8. 87' Shinji Okazaki (Japan) Substitution at 87'
  9. 89' Yuya Kubo (Japan) Substitution at 89'
  10. 90' Robbie Kruse (Australia) Yellow Card at 90'

WCQ - AFC News

All news
ESPN Mikhail De Guzman and Pam Puri What Philippines learned from two ASEAN campaigns Philippines have shown enough promise over the past two tournaments. They now need to show progress. ESPN Joey Lynch, Gabriel Tan, Stuart Randall AFC to introduce Nations League in shake-up of World Cup, Asian Cup qualification The Asian Football Confederation is set to introduce a Nations League competition, which will affect the qualification process for the World Cup and Asian Cup. ESPN Joey Lynch Garriock: Football Australia 'in favour' of AFC Nations League concept Football Australia has given an early thumbs-up to the AFC's proposed Nations League concept, with director Heather Garriock describing it as a 'great concept' to strengthen Asia's position in world football. ESPN Gabriel Tan Ilhan Fandi pleased with start to life at Lion City Sailors, eyeing more under Mark Jackson Three games in and now reunited with a former coach, Ilhan Fandi is satisfied with how life is going at the Sailors.