While Baba and Valjent have played the ninety minutess with their selections in the first match of these dates, Kubo and Muriqi have stayed on the bench without going out to play for a minute and with important displacements.
The Japanese has been with his team in Australia. The Japanese team won 0-2 and secured its presence in the Qatar World Cup but Take Kubo did not play a single minute game and followed the classification of his team from the bench.
In the case of the Kosovar Vedat Muriqi was also left without playing in the friendly in which his team thrashed Burkina Faso 5-0.
On the other side of the coin, Martin Valjent and Iddrisu Baba played the full 90 minutes for their national teams. The Slovakian lost 2-0 in a friendly in Norway while the African drew 0-0 at home in a qualifying match for Qatar in the duel that pitted his Ghana team against Nigeria.
Next Tuesday Baba’s Ghana returns the visit to Nigeria; Valjent’s Slovakia will travel to Finland; Japan, with Take Kubo, will receive Vietnam and Kosovo with Muriqi in his ranks will travel to Switzerland.