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Pointed out to my son the Tunisian reaction to any tackle depending on whether they are in their defensive or attacking half.
 
Kewell was just talking about MOM, reckon he forgot about Souttar who IMO has been excellent. A wall at the back
 
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You can clearly see the technical deficiency of Australian players, foot skills are technically poor even compared to a team like Tunisia.
 
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mrposhman said:
You can clearly see the technical deficiency of Australian players, foot skills are technically poor even compared to a team like Tunisia.
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Our lack of skills is directly proportional to the number of A League players in the squad.
 
Inexperience from Mabil there. Not the time to go for the goal, time to head to the corner flag.

Got the win though, surprised they didn't need the 2nd goal though.
 
And breathe.

Better, especially the first half. We were lucky we had a ref that didn't take too much *smile*.

Denmark will be a lot tougher.
 
Only the 3rd team to win a World Cup finals game for us out of 6 finals campaigns - 2006, 2010 and now 2022. Maybe more to come ;) :banana
 
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How’s the egg on the sky is falling brigade?

And the Arnold haters?

Go the Socceroos
 
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Baloo said:
Our lack of skills is directly proportional to the number of A League players in the squad.
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Exactly what I was saying during the week though, this isn't a strong Australia squad, and their ball retention is a clear sign of that.

Its interesting watching this as an England / Australia supporter. I can definitely see trends with England in the apparent "golden generation" in the late 90's, early 2000's. We were strong enough to beat easy opposition, but it was very clear that our technical skills were nowhere near the best countries in the world, hence why we could generally get to quarters but then struggle. We went away and looked at the academy setup and invested a lot of money in technical coaching to catch up with the other European and South American countries and I think we are finally seeing some of that come to fruition.

Hopefully Australia look at this and invest where its needed, we have a big enough country to be able to have a stronger domestic league and International team.
 
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