Betting tips for Colombia vs Japan 19.06.2018

The Coffee Selection opens its participation in this World Cup by measuring the always attractive selection of Japan in the match that opens Group H. Colombia suffered until the end to seal its classification for the World Cup next summer. The coffee growers complicated their lives a lot, yielding an unexpected defeat against Paraguay in the penultimate day. The tie in Peru, together with the rest of the results, ended up being enough to qualify without even needing the repechage.

The team coached by Argentina's Pekerman started with a home victory against Peru (2-0), in a match in which a late inning on James Rodriguez kept the Madrid midfielder in the dry dock for two months. Without James, the national team fell to Uruguay (3-0) just a few days later, drawing against Chile at home (1-1), with James back, and falling at home against Argentina for a short 0-1 . Already the following day, the equipment gained to Paraguay to home by 0-1, counting on the absence of a James Rodriguez that traveled injured from Madrid. In the previous day, the team gave a draw at home to the team of Uruguay, leader of the group. In the next two games, Colombia tied at home against Chile (0-0) and was thrashed by Argentina (3-0), before adding two victories in the two games against Bolivia (1-0) and Ecuador (0-2). ) before clicking in Venezuela. The Colombians traveled to Brazil, where they lost 2-1 in a game in which Neymar Jr. was decisive. Before their defeat in Brazil, the team had won the last three games, against Bolivia in La Paz (2-3), against Ecuador (3-1) and in the cited match against Vinotinto. In the last two days, the coffee table tied at home against Brazil (1-1), lost 1-2 at home to Paraguay and tied 1 in Peru. In the last two friendlies, Colombia lost in South Korea (2-1) and thrashed China (0-4).



Japan ended up behind South Korea in the East Asian Championship group. The Japanese lost the lead on the last day, losing 1-4 at home to Koreans. That defeat did not matter since both teams will be in the World Cup.

This will be Japan's 4th friendly since then. In March, they drew 1-1 against Mali and lost to Ukraine (1-2). Already last week, lost to another African team, Ghana, by 0-2.

Framed in the same group as Colombia, Senegal and Poland, the truth is that the Nipponese do not arrive at their best in this World Cup despite having numerous players in the European leagues, especially in the Bundesliga. The new player of Real Betis, Takashi Inui, will be one of the stars of a team that has a veteran as the ex-Milan Honda, the central Southampton Yoshida or the intergalactic Nagatomo.