Japan – Paraguay Prediction & Picks (12.06.2018)

Another of the selections that closes its stage of preparation for the 2018 World Cup, will be the Asian team of Japan, which on Tuesday will face a tough South American team like Paraguay, in play to be played at the Tivoli Stadion Tirol in Innsbruck, Austria.

Paraguay:

Unfortunately, the Guarani team squandered the great opportunity they had to say present at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, when in the last game of the playoffs they had to beat Venezuela at home and in the end a goal by Yangel Herrera with five minutes to go. He left them with all the sadness in the world.

The truth is that the blow was so hard, that Paraguay is one of the teams that has done less work since that game in November of 2017, since it has only played a friendly game that was against the United States against those who were also defeated by the minimum difference and on Tuesday those led by Gustavo Morinigo want to break that losing streak and add a good result against a World Cup team such as Japan.

Japan:

Meanwhile, it seems that the Japanese team is paying dearly for having changed coach very close to the World Cup Russia 2018, and is that the hand of Akira Nishino positive results do not come.

Thus the last weekend was defeated by 2-0 in his visit to Switzerland and with it added his third consecutive loss and his fourth game without being able to win, and most worrying is that he could not be present with goal in the last two games, so this Tuesday they hope to be able to change the poor performance within the field of play, to arrive with another mentality in their game against Colombia for the World Cup debut.

The game on Tuesday will be the fifth game between these teams, it all started at the 1999 Copa América Paraguay with a 4-0 South American victory, then in 2008 they met at the Kirin Cup where they drew 0-0, in 2010 they played at the eighth-finals of the World Cup in South Africa with a goalless draw in the 90 minutes and qualifying Paraguay through penalties, while their last match was in a 2010 friendly match where Japan was finally able to break the spell and won by the slightest difference.