On Tuesday, the Japanese national football team wasted the first two points in its career in the decisive stage of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
The Japanese national team tied 1-1 with its Australian guest in the fourth round of the third group of the decisive stage of the Asian qualifiers for the World Cup, which is hosted by the United States of America, Canada and Mexico.
The two goals of the match came in the second half, where friendly fire played a role in scoring them, and the Australian team scored in the 58th minute through Japanese player Shogo Taniguchi, who scored an accidental goal against his country’s team.
The visitors were not very happy with their progress, after the Japanese national team equalized in the 76th minute through Cameron Burgess, the Australian national team defender, who scored an own goal for the host team.
Despite the draw, the Japanese team, which won its first three matches in the group, remained at the top with 10 points, 5 points ahead of Australia, which is temporarily in second place.
Later Tuesday, in the same group, the Saudi team, which is in third place with four points, will meet its guest, the Bahraini team, which is in fourth place with the same number of points.
The Chinese national team, which is at the bottom of the standings without points, will also play in the third group, with its guest, the Indonesian national team, which is in fifth place with three points.
The 18 teams participating in the decisive stage of the qualifiers were distributed into 3 groups, with each group containing 6 teams competing in a divided league system of two round-robin stages.
The top two teams from each group qualify directly to the 2026 World Cup finals, while the two teams in third and fourth places move on to compete in the fourth round to compete for two tickets to the World Cup and a ticket to the global playoff.
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