In my opinion Saudi Arabia is clear favorite of today's match up and they should be able to make comfortable win with at least 4 goals margin.

For the safety reasons match going to be played in Saudi Arabia so this is is first huge advantage for 'hosts'. First match between both teams finished with Saudi Arabia 3:0 win, but Singapore were very lucky to not conceded more goals there - Saudi Arabia created 11 (!) big chances to score.

Today I see even bigger problems for Singapore with defending Saudi Arabia attacks. In last match 4 days ago they lost 0:5 against Uzbekistan and they looked extremely bad in defense. In comparison to that game now they have one new big missing - key defender Hamzah is unavailable. In addition to that, key central defender Baharudin, defensive midfielder and team captain Harun and top striker Fandi are unavailable (all of them played in firsr match between both teams). That should have extremely bad impact on their performance today, especially in defense.

Saudi Arabia coming for this match full of confidence as they won last two matches to against Syria and Palestine to 'nil' and scored 8 goals in the process. In both matches they had ball possession above 75%. I expect another dominant performance today against depleted Singapore team.

Despite bad results Singapore coach Yoshida plans to play the same way like in previous game, so it's hard to see positive result for them today, he said: ''Our philosophy, we have to follow that. We have to try to build up (from the back) and deal with it, even if Saudi Arabia are going to press against us. We have to stick to it and learn from these matches. It is important for us. We have nothing to lose. If we want to avoid losing and just focus on defending for 90 minutes, we will die. Of course we will spend more of the match defending because of the strength of the opponents but we must try to attack when we can."

在我看来，沙特阿拉伯显然是今天比赛的最爱，他们应该能够以至少4个进球的差距轻松取胜。

出于安全考虑，比赛将在沙特举行，这是东道主的第一个巨大优势。两队之间的第一场比赛以沙特阿拉伯3:0获胜，但新加坡非常幸运，没丢更多的球——沙特阿拉伯创造了11个进球机会。

今天，我看到新加坡在为沙特阿拉伯的袭击辩护时面临更大的问题。在4天前的比赛中，他们0:5输给了乌兹别克斯坦，他们的防守看起来非常糟糕。与那场比赛相比，现在他们又少了一个重要球员——关键后卫哈姆扎。除此之外，关键中卫巴哈鲁丁、防守型中场兼队长哈伦和顶级前锋范迪都不能上场(他们都参加了两队的第一场比赛)。这应该会对他们今天的表现产生非常糟糕的影响，尤其是在防守方面。

沙特阿拉伯对这场比赛充满信心，他们在最后两场比赛中以0比0战胜叙利亚和巴勒斯坦，并进了8个球。在两场比赛中，他们的控球率都在75%以上。我希望今天对阵耗尽的新人队时，能有另一场强势的表现。

尽管结果不佳，新加坡教练吉田仍计划像以前一样打比赛，所以今天很难看到积极的结果，他说:“我们的理念，我们必须遵循。我们必须试着(从后面)建立并处理它，即使沙特阿拉伯会对我们施压。我们必须坚持下去，从这些比赛中学习。这对我们很重要。我们没什么好失去的。如果我们想避免失败，只专注于防守90分钟，我们就会死。当然，我们会花更多的时间来防守，因为对手的实力，但我们必须在可以的时候努力进攻。”