Japan held its first matches in 2020 only in October. Hajime Moriyasu’s charges played against Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire. On the whole, the result turned out well. The game against the Cameroonians was to some extent a warm-up after a long break, so it would be naive to expect the samurai to win. As a result, all went to the world with a score 0:0. Everything went to the same result with the Ivorians. The most boring two halves of goals did not promise, as in the first compensated minute, Naomichi Ueda brought victory to the Japanese with an accurate blow 1:0.
Guests scored 3 points in the first two matches. Having lost to Argentina with a minimum score, the Ecuadorians beat then one of the favorites of the tournament, Uruguay with a score 4:2 and occupy the 5th place, which is the play-off zone (the first four go directly to the final tournament). Frankly speaking, the composition of the national team is also not stellar, but, nevertheless, it is stronger than that of their rivals. Three players in the Ecuadorian team play in Europe, for Krasnodar, for Turkish Malatyaspor and German Augsburg, one for Brazilian S?o Paulo, almost half of the team plays for Mexican clubs. More scientific football prediction today can be obtained from the link provided.
