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Pim Verbeek's Socceroos, who have yet to concede a goal, top Group A with nine points - two ahead of Japan. Both teams have played three games.

Japan and Iran, who host Group B leaders South Korea on Wednesday, are both gunning for home victories that would see them leapfrog their group rivals at the halfway stage of the final qualifying round.

"I don't mind if we have to get ugly. We'll go for three points for a win," Nakamura said ahead of the showdown at the 70,000-capacity Yokohama International Stadium.

"Most of the Australian team have played for strong European clubs for many years and compete at a high level, so I don't think we can stick to a beautiful formula in which we can only focus on good passes and scoring goals.

"We need to care about the small details, such as going back to our defensive formation as soon as we lose the ball and being quick in starting set plays."

The 30-year-old Celtic midfielder, who joined Takeshi Okada's squad on Friday after returning from Glasgow, remembered how Japan lost 3-1 to Australia in the group stage of the 2006 World Cup, when all the Socceroo goals came in the final nine minutes.

"We'll never repeat the same mistake," he said.

Along with Nakamura, Okada has also called up four other Europe-based players: Eintracht Frankfurt's Junichi Inamoto, St Etienne's Daisuke Matsui, and Makoto Hasebe and Yoshito Okubo of Wolfsburg.

Okada again came under pressure following a 1-0 away defeat to lower-ranked Bahrain in an Asian Cup qualifier two weeks ago, although confidence was restored with last Wednesday's 5-1 friendly home win against an under-strength Finland side, with Shinji Okazaki scoring two goals.

Verbeek has recalled Everton star Tim Cahill, West Ham defender Lucas Neill and Blackburn midfielder Vince Grella to his squad, which includes only one domestic A-League player - Craig Moore.

Brett Emerton and Harry Kewell are ruled out with injuries.

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