🚨 Kaoru Mitoma’s late double sends Japan to the World Cup

Kaoru Mitoma scored a late brace to assist Japan beat Australia 2-0 and guide their place on the Qatar World Cup.

Going into the match in Sydney, the permutations had been clear for Japan, with a victory sufficient to guide their ticket to the World Cup in Qatar as one in every of two computerized qualifiers.

It was an end-to-end contest within the opening 45 minutes, with each groups creating a variety of goalscoring alternatives. 

Australia thought that they had opened the scores halfway by the primary half when Martin Boyle discovered the again of the online, however his pleasure was short-lived as referee Nawaf Shukralla dominated it out for a foul.

Takumi Minamino then got here near giving Japan the opener simply earlier than the half-hour mark, however his effort went simply huge of the left put up. 

The Liverpool man then struck the crossbar within the thirty seventh minute with a ferocious shot from the age of the field because the match went into the break nonetheless scoreless. 

The second half was equally participating as each side pushed to get the elusive aim, and for a minute appeared it was not coming going into the final minute of the match. 

It was then that Mikoma opened the scores within the 89th minute when he collected a killer go contained in the field that put him one-on-one towards the goalkeeper, and he drilled a low drive deep contained in the left put up.

Deep in added time, Mikoma made an amazing solo run and pulled the set off from contained in the field, beating Mathew Ryan with a low strike into the center of the aim for a 2-0 win. 

The loss means Australia will now face two playoff matches.