Mark Milligan with Socceroos captain Lucas Neill. The Melbourne Victory midfielder will be one of five changes from the Oman match and coach Holger Osieck believes the players are good enough to execute their own gameplan rather than just negating group B leaders Japan. Milligan will start in midfield tonight at Saitama Stadium along with Mark Bresciano, with coach Holger Osieck exercising caution on Mile Jedinak. Join us for a live blog of the Socceroos v Japan clash - from 8.30pm AEST The midfielder is likely to take his place on the bench after doing just light training all week following an ankle injury in Crystal Palace's Championship playoff win against Watford. Milligan played in the East-Asian Cup qualifiers but it's his first qualifying appearance since June last year when he was unlucky to be sent off for a second yellow card, 43 minutes after coming on for the injured Bresciano and his first start since the Saudi Arabia clash in February 2012. Lucas Neill, Sasa Ognenovski, Bresciano and Tommy Oar are the other inclusions with James Holland, Alex Brosque, Robert Cornthwaite, Michael Thwaite and Jedinak making way. Osieck paid tribute to Japan but said he would tell his players to believe in themselves before they run out in front of 60,000 fans tonight. I don't think that matters. We have our own ideas, we know what we have to do. We definitely have to consider the various elements of the Japanese game but I am pretty sure we can run through our own game plan," Osieck said. We definitely analysed it (the Oman game) and hopefully we will erase all that stuff. We worked on some issues in training, we try to get a better understanding and to definitely improve some of the issues that haven't been to my expectation. I'm convinced of my team, we have a quality group, we have a lot to offer and we play some good technical football and we are tactically well balanced. Captain Lucas Neill said the Socceroos' record against Japan gave the players belief. While the Socceroos lost to Japan in extra time of the 2011 Asian Cup final and on penalties at the 2007 Asian Cup, Australia's last loss in normal time was back at the 2001 Confederations Cup. "We have not lost to Japan in normal time in a long time," Neill said. We go into the game with the belief that if we play to our potential, or near our best, we have a very good chance of getting the points.