Japan – Thailand Prediction & Preview and Betting Tips (28.03.2017)

Prediction for Japan – Thailand

Win Japan or Thailand and both do not score @ 1.80

Match of the qualifying phase of the AFC for the 2018 World Cup that faces Japan and Thailand.
Bet on “Win Japan or Taliandia and both do not score”.

Japan

First of all make clear the why of the pick. What I wanted to take was “Japan wins at 0” (or the equivalent “… and both do not tick”). For some reason this option is the biggest fee I have found for what I wanted to select. The Luckia also have a good share to “Both do not score” at 1.74 share and yet the “Win Japan without conceding goal” is at 1.71. So you could say that Thailand here is filling.

Japan is 2nd in their group. He has 13 points in 6 games (4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss). At home has won 2 wins and 1 loss (the defeat was against UAE). In the other 2 games also fit goal (Iraq and Saudi Arabia, being the second the current leader of the group – by the difference of goals).

Although in the 3 games as a local has conceded goal, it is for Thailand that I go with the pick.
Thailand is clearly the worst selection of the group. He has added only 1 point in all 6 games and has 3 goals in favor and 15 against. He only scored in 1 match outside the country, against United Arab Emirates.

Thailand did not make horrible matches but because it faced selections that did not give much war at the time of wanting possession. Japan is usually a team that wants to have the ball, normally failing the goal.

Thailand

Japan leaves as clear favorite and, considering that they will want to have the ball, I doubt that Thailand has many occasions. Japan has a player of European name and the local Japanese league is not much better than Thai. That is why I expect a victory of Japan in which I did not fit goal.

Another good option could be the Handicap in favor of Japan but I am not convinced by such low quotas. Japan has the big problem of being very fail up. Capable of creating many occasions against selections of his level or inferior but that it costs him to score goal.
Any result 0 is worth it, so we should not worry about Japan’s lack of punch. What we are looking for is essentially that they can keep the goal at 0 and I hope Thailand will be able to do it.

In the match they played in Thailand were 0-2 and Thailand finished only 2 times (1 of them between the 3 clubs). If it is true that in that match was equalized possession but, as it turned out, it is very difficult to create occasions. That is why I hope that Japan will be able to maintain the goal at 0 or in a game that, although not transcendental, should help them to achieve a better goal difference in case they end up playing the direct classification for the World Cup.