World Cup 2010 South Africa group stage match – Japan Vs Cameroon preview

Eto'o Cameroons most influential player - Photo By : Getty Images

Cameroon are looking as the favorite for the Group E clash with Japan on Monday. Japan have received much criticism after losing all their warm up games and only managing a draw against Zimbabwe.

Japan have also looked very poor upfront, managing to score only one goal in all their warm up games.

Cameroon have also received stick recently with poor performances in the African Nations Cup. Eto’o even threatened to quit after receiving criticism from Roger Milla, arguably Cameroons greatest forward.

With both teams defense being poor, one would expect a game with many goals but Cameroon with the electric speed of Eto’o can easily cause problems for the Asian side who has performed very badly in their warm-up games.

Prediction
Cameroon has a full squad and no injury worries other than Arsenal midfielder Alexandre Song be a doubt. Japan also has a fit squad after midfielder Makoto Hasebe returned to the team after an injury.

When evaluating both teams, Cameroon looks the stronger side especially with the likes of Eto’O when fit can cause devastating problems to the defense.

Japan with their poor defense conceding nine goals and only managing to score a single goal during the warm-ups puts great doubt on the Japanese side.

Cameroon to win 2 – 0

Japan World Cup Squad

Goalkeepers
Seigo Narazaki, Eiji Kawashima, Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
Defenders
Yuichi Komano, Marcus Tulio Tanaka, Yuto Nagatomo, Atsuto Uchida, Daiki Iwamasa, Yasuyuki Konno, Yuji Nakazawa
Midfielders
Yuki Abe, Yasuhito Endo, Daisuke Matsui, Shunsuke Nakamura, Kengo Nakamura, Makoto Hasebe, Keisuke Honda, Junichi Inamoto
Forwards
Shinji Okazaki, Keiji Tamada, Kishi Yano, Yoshito Okubo, Takayuki Morimoto

Cameroon World Cup Squad

Goalkeepers
Carlos Kameni, Hamidou Souleymanou, Guy Roland Ndy Assembe
Defenders
Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Nicolas Nkoulou, Rigobert Song, Sebastien Bassong, Geremi Njitap, Gaetan Bong, Aurelien Chedjou, Stephane Mbia
Midfielders
Alex Song, Landry Nguemo, Achille Emana, Jean Makoun, Enoh Eyong Tarkang, Georges Mandjeck, Joel Matip
Forwards
Samuel Eto’o, Eric Choupo-Moting, Achille Webo, Mohamadou Idrissou, Vincent Aboubakar

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