(Reuters) – PSV Eindhoven winger Ritsu Doan has been added to Japan’s squad for his or her upcoming World Cup qualifiers in opposition to Vietnam and Oman, the Japan Soccer Affiliation introduced on Saturday.
Doan had initially been left off the squad for the video games in Hanoi and Muscat, set for Nov. 11 and 16 respectively, due to a knee harm.
Nevertheless, coach Hajime Moriyasu has drafted the 23-year-old into his squad as Japan seems to be to beat a disappointing begin to the ultimate section of Asia’s preliminaries for subsequent 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar.
The Japanese are actually in fourth place in Group B, with six factors from their first 4 video games, six adrift of leaders Saudi Arabia.
Solely the highest two groups in every of the 2 teams in Asia’s qualifying match advance to Qatar 2022, with the third place finishers advancing right into a collection of playoffs for a possible fifth berth for the continent’s groups.
(Reporting by Michael Church; Modifying by Clarence Fernandez)
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