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Sport / league:: International Friendly
Event / fixture:: Japan v Australia
Event date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 at 9:20 PM
Market:: Asian Handicap
Tip:: Australia 1 @ 1.90 (SBOBET)
Tip Result:: Refund

This contest will be anything but friendly as these super powers of the Asia Confederation clash for the 10th time. Japan holds the edge 4 wins to 2 but it is worth noting that two of those wins came in extra-time. In addition, Japan's most recent win over the green and gold, 3-2 in July '13 in the East Asian Cup, can almost be considered void as both managers used largely experimental sides in that competition. One thing's for sure, both these nations bring the best out of each other on the football pitch and this will be no different. Since their disappointing World Cup campaign where they managed just a single point (in a group consisting of Greece, Ivory Coast and Colombia), The Blue Samurai has a record of 3 wins and 2 losses. Those wins came against notoriously bad travelers Venezuela (3-0), Jamaica via an own goal (1-0), and Honduras (6-0) - hardly inspiring stuff. Ange Postecoglou's troops had by far the more impressive World Cup campaign (despite not registering a single point) in a tough group consisting of Chile, Netherlands and Spain. The Socceroos gaffer has chopped and changed since which has culminated in a poor run results. I can see the Aussies been extra motivated for this one as it's the final warm-up game before hosting the Asian Cup in January. A performance and first XI, not too dissimilar to what we saw in Brazil (against Chile and Netherlands) will get Australia at least a draw.

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