Japan vs Romania, World Championship Water Polo – Schedule & Where to Watch on TV

Water polo World Championship Water Polo Japan - Romania
Result
20:19 penalties
21/07/2025 at 22:35 (Time Zone – GMT-4 (America/New_York))
  • World Championship - 9th-12th places - 9th place

Chances of winning


Japan
71.1%
Draw
9.8%
Romania
19.1%

Initial Probability

(when we started the analysis)
69.7% 11.1% 19.2%

Our Initial ML Estimation

64.5% 12% 20.7%


Analysis of Changes in Winning Probabilities:

  • Japan has improved its chances compared to the initial analysis. (+1.4%)
  • Romania has seen a decrease in its chances compared to the initial analysis. (-0.1%)
  • ML Model estimates a lower probability for Japan than the current prediction. (-6.6%)
  • Note: The ML model's lower estimate suggests that there may be underlying issues with Japan that the model has picked up on.
  • ML Model estimates a higher probability for Romania than the current prediction. (+1.6%)
  • Japan - Romania Odds

    1 X 2 Marga
    Avarage Now
    (Initially)
    1.29
    (1.32)
    9.38
    (8.3)
    4.81
    (4.8)
    8.7%
    (8.6%)

  • The most likely Over/Under: 32.50
  • The most likely Handicap: 1 (-4)
  • Preview Facts
    • Both teams have been playing unpredictably.
    • In this match, Japan is a strong favorite.
    • In the last 1 head-to-head match, Japan won 1 match, drew 0 matches, lost 0 matches, and goals 16:12.
    What were the results of their latest head-to-head matches?
    The latest head-to-head matches between Japan - Romania were as follows:
    08.01.2025 Romania - Japan 12:16
    Latest results of Japan
    20.07.2025 Japan - Brazil 22:11
    18.07.2025 Serbia - Japan 21:14
    15.07.2025 Australia - Japan 11:12
    14.07.2025 Japan - Hungary 18:23
    12.07.2025 Spain - Japan 22:16
    Latest results of Romania
    20.07.2025 Romania - Canada 18:12
    18.07.2025 Romania - Hungary 11:15
    16.07.2025 Serbia - Romania 19:9
    13.07.2025 South Africa - Romania 5:24
    12.07.2025 Romania - Italy 5:17
    Draw
    Play Offs

    1/8-finals
    1ItalyBye
    2BrazilGreece5 : 17
    3SpainBye
    4CanadaMontenegro10 : 22
    5USABye
    6SerbiaJapan21 : 14
    7CroatiaBye
    8RomaniaHungary11 : 15

    Quarter-finals
    1ItalyGreece11 : 17
    2SpainMontenegro14 : 5
    3USASerbia9 : 14
    4CroatiaHungary12 : 18

    Semi-finals
    1GreeceSpain9 : 11
    2SerbiaHungary18 : 19

    Final
    1SpainHungary15 : 13

    3rd place
    2GreeceSerbia16 : 7