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#AsianQualifiers - Road To 26 | Group C : Japan 6-0 Indonesia

Group C: Japan 6-0 Indonesia

Suita: Daichi Kamada scored twice in the first half to lead Japan to a 6-0 defeat of Indonesia on Tuesday as Hajime Moriyasu’s side closed out their successful AFC Asian Qualifiers™ - Road to 26 campaign with a seventh win in 10 matches in Group C.
Kamada gave Japan the lead with a 15th minute header and, after Takefuso Kubo doubled the advantage four minutes later, the Crystal Palace forward scored his side’s third six minutes into first half injury time.

Ryoya Morishita and Shuto Machino added the fourth and fifth in the 55th and 58th minutes respectively and substitute Mao Hosoya thumped in his side’s sixth with nine minutes remaining as Japan celebrated their qualification for the FIFA World Cup with a huge win.
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Japan notched up the comfortable victory after Moriyasu made nine changes to the side that lost 1-0 against Australia on Thursday, with Kubo taking the captain’s armband and causing an early threat to the Indonesian defence.

The Real Sociedad attacker drove through the midfield in the early exchanges before slipping possession into debutant Shunsuke Mito, but the Sparta Rotterdam winger’s cutback towards the penalty spot was cleared.
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Machino headed over Emil Audero’s crossbar in the 11th minute when he met Junnosuke Suzuki’s lofted ball into the centre and less than four minutes later the home side’s pressure paid off.

Mito drifted down the left to work the ball back onto his right foot and bend a cross towards the edge of the six yard box that Kamada rose to head home, the downward effort crawling over the line despite the best efforts of Audero.
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Kubo doubled the lead four minutes later as his link up with Kamada punished the visiting defence, the playmaker receiving a return pass from his team mate at a corner and, after seeing Audero save his initial strike, Kubo lashed the ball into the roof of the net.

Group C: Japan v Indonesia

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Kubo almost added to the home side’s tally in the final minute of the half, dragging his shot wide having latched onto Machino’s scooped pass into the penalty area, and it was left to Kamada to hit Japan’s third deep into injury time.

Not surprisingly Kubo was at the heart of the move, trading passes with Mito before slipping the ball into Kamada and he sidestepped a pair of Indonesian defenders before lifting the ball over Audero to score.
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Morishita stroked a side-footed volley in from close range 10 minutes into the second half from Machino’s cross on the left to score the fourth before Machino slotted in the fifth following Kubo’s cheeky lofted pass over the defence three minutes later.
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Substitute Kodai Sano was twice denied in quick succession by Audero and Keito Nakamura threatened to hit the sixth for the Japanese but it was Hosoya who next found the net for the Samurai Blue after Kota Tawaratsumida’s work down the left.

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