Japan U17 vs Australia U17 Prediction, 10:00 p.m. April 10: Deciding Fate

TPO - Australia and Japan are considered to be much stronger than the rest of Group B. However, with their not-so-good results, they now have to fight each other to decide which team will advance. Between Australia and Japan, only one representative will advance to the next round and win a ticket to the World Cup, and today's match will be their final.

Prediction before the match U17 Japan vs U17 Australia

After 2 matches, Japan still has the upper hand with 4 points. They thought they would have secured a ticket if they could defend their victory over Vietnam. But the goal conceded in the last seconds puts the team at risk of being eliminated. That would happen if Japan loses to Australia and the match between Vietnam and UAE ends in a draw.

If Vietnam draws with UAE and Japan loses to Australia by no more than 4 goals, they will still be able to continue. The above analysis shows that the opportunity for Japan is quite open. The problem is that they cannot repeat the mistake like in the match with Vietnam. Meanwhile, for Australia, their only task is 3 points.

Of course, with youth football, especially players under 17, anything can happen. Not many people thought Australia would lose to UAE, and few people could believe that Vietnam would hold Japan to a draw in a game where they were completely overwhelmed. Anything can happen in this match.

Australia has not shown much since the beginning of the tournament.

Form, head-to-head history of U17 Japan vs U17 Australia

But it must be admitted that Japan is rated much higher than its opponent. Unlike the national team, Australian youth football is not very formidable in Asia. In the history of participating in the U17 continental tournament, the furthest Australia has gone is the semi-finals. Their achievements are only on par with Vietnam. Meanwhile, Japan is the defending champion, the team with the most championships in history with 4 titles.

Japan have a strong, flexible and technical style of play based on players who have trained together for many years. They always strike fear into opponents in the continent. Australia even fell victim to Japan in a 1-3 defeat two years ago.

Besides dominating Australia, Japan is also confident with a record of only losing 1 out of the last 13 matches. And that only defeat happened to Spain.

Meanwhile, Australia has not won any of its last 3 matches, with 2 defeats. They even lost to a weaker opponent, Solomon Islands, and also drew 0-0 with Indonesia. Australia's victories mainly came against top weak opponents such as the Northern Mariana Islands, Vanuatu, Kuwait, etc.

The match against Vietnam showed that Australia could not create a dynamic and sharp style of play. They mainly relied on breakthroughs from a few outstanding players in the team such as Tatu, Macnicol... Perhaps that approach will not be enough for the kangaroo team to create a surprise against Japan tonight.

Expected lineup U17 Japan vs U17 Australia

Japan U17: Ejike, Fujii, Shinozaki, Noguchi, Kabayama, Kanda, Chona, Himeno, Yoshida, Asada, Kamo.

U17 Australia: Ajanovic, Kutleshi, Parkin, Garbowski, Pullella, Eames, Anastasio, Macnicol, Williams, Tatu, Sambrook.

Score prediction: U17 Japan 3-1 U17 Australia

Dang Lai

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