Japan-Tunisia is a friendly and is played Tuesday at 12:10 p.m.: news, probable formations, predictions, live TV and streaming.
Seventh friendly in a row for Japan, which hasn’t played an official match since the round of 16 with Croatia at Qatar 2022, which ended in a bitter defeat on penalty kicks. Hajime Moriyasu’s Nipponese are in any case confirming the excellent things they showed in the last World Cup, taking some far from trivial satisfaction.
One above all, the historic 4-1 victory over Germany last September, which effectively ended Hansi Flick’s tenure as technical commissioner of the German national team. A few days later Endo and co. also rifled four goals against Turkey, and last Friday they repeated themselves with Canada, scrambled 4-1 in Niigata. Impressive is the number of goals scored by Japan in the last five games: yes, they may be friendlies, but 22 total goals are not scored just like that, by accident. After all, so many key players (Kamada, Kubo, Endo, just to name a few), now play at high levels in Europe, so such exponential growth should not be surprising.
In the last friendly match before the start of qualification for the next World Cup, the Japanese will face Tunisia, fresh from the test against South Korea.
Kadri, Tunisia selector
A friendly with no history, ended 4-0 for the hosts. Very severe lesson for Jalel Kadri’s selection, which had not played since September, when it had beaten (again in a friendly) Egypt with a clear 3-1. Tunisia, which in any case has already snatched a pass for the next African Cup of Nations, finishing first in its group.
The Prediction
Japan is having a magical time, especially from the point of view of scoring. And the differences with Tunisia today appear clear: despite a minimum of turnover on the part of coach Moriyasu, we therefore expect a wide success by the Japanese, who should score two to four goals.
The probable lineups of Japan-Tunisia
- JAPAN (4-3-3): Osako; Maikuma, Taniguchi, Machida, Nakayama; Ito, Endo, Tanaka; Minamino, Furuhashi, Nakamura.
- TUNISIA (3-4-3): Dahmen; Meriah, Talbi, Abdi; Kechrida, Laidouni, Skhiri, Maaloul; Mejbri, Msakni, Achouri.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-1
