Buy your lottery tickets now and get Sanfrecce Hiroshima manager Eddie Thompson to select your numbers.

"Lucky Eddie" predicted the result of Wednesday's Japan-New Zealand Under-23 friendly at Tokyo's National Stadium and was spot-on at 4-0 for the home side. But such was the gulf between the two sides, it could have been 10-0.

"I was very impressed with the Japanese team," New Zealand coach Ken Dugdale commented afterward. "We learned a lot of lessons tonight at a high level of football that we're not used to.