Japan vs China prediction and betting tips on September 5, 2024
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Game Prediction
The 1st round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers will feature a match between the national teams of Japan and China on September 5, 2024. The favourite is obvious, but the guests will try to surprise their neighbour.
Japan vs China: key statistics and trends
- Japan has won 4 times in a row.
- China has lost only 1 out of 4 previous games.
- The most common score between the teams is a 0-0 draw (3 times).
- Japan has won 9 home matches in a row.
- Japan has not conceded in 4 confrontations in a row.
- Japan has scored at least once in 23 previous meetings.
- China has conceded in each of 5 previous confrontations.
- Japan wins the first half in 82% of matches, China – in 14% of games.
Our prediction for the match Japan vs China
“The Samurai Blue” is one of the best teams in all of Asia. Suffice it to say that the team has been playing at every single World Cup since 1998, and has reached the play-offs on numerous occasions, including 2 previous ones. “The Dragon Team” has played at the World Cup only once, in 2002, losing all matches with a total score of 0-9.
The difference in class was also evident at the Winter Asian Cup. The Chinese team did not score a single goal there: there happened a couple of goalless draws in the confrontations with Tajikistan and Lebanon, a 0-1 result in the game against Qatar (and it was eliminated after the group stage). Moriyasu’s wards confidently advanced from the group, beat Bahrain with a 3-1 score, but stumbled in the meeting against Iran in the quarter-finals – they lost due to a penalty goal in the 6th minute of added time.
“The Samurai” had no problems with the previous round of qualification, except for the cancellation of the trip to the DPRK. As a result, there were 6 wins in 6 matches with a total score of 24-0. As for the Chinese team, it was headed by Branko Ivankovic in February, and took 5 points in 4 matches, mainly in the struggle with Singapore (there was also a home draw with Thailand and a defeat made by South Korea). As a result, the team overtook the Thais in the dispute for 2nd place only on additional parameters.
Japan vs China: possible starting line-ups
Japan (possible line-up): Osako – Machida, Itakura, Tomiyasu – Nakamura, Minamino, Kubo, Endo, Tanaka, Doan – Ueda.
China (possible line-up): Wang Dalei – Liu Yang, Zhu Chenjie, Browning, Yang Zexiang – Xie Wenneng, Wang Shangyuan, Jiang Shenglong, Xu Haoyang – Behram Abduweli, Fernandinho.
Previous head-to-head matches: Japan vs China
“The Celestial Empire” has won only 1, the very first head-to-head match back in 1980. And the team tied their home game in 2022 after 4 defeats in a row in the previous qualifying round.
Free prediction for the match Japan vs China
“The Samurai” are much stronger and will play on the native field. We bet on the hosts’ success with “a -2.0 goal handicap” (odd: 1.8).