Agree can see Kruse having a field day. We should beat them.

I reckon they will be wearing him like a moccasin, which of course means more space for Leckie and Kruse.

Try not being a dumb cunt and ill take you seriously.

I smell a hat-trick.

I reckon Timmy is licking his lips.

You've been a massive scourge on this forum for so long. Time for you to pack your bags and piss off 442.
Everyone's had it with your shit. You offer nothing useful and your endless attacks do nothing but stir people up on this site. Time for the Mods to show you the door.

All of Ange's teams start slowly in the opening 20minutes or so, i don't know why. Roar, Victory, Socceroos.

It will be a big opportunity missed if we do not beat UAE. Going into this tournament if someone said our Semi Final is against the UAE and the final is against Korea or Iraq I would have taken that without thinking twice.

Yes but that could easily happen to us.

We have a habit of conceding early and having to chase the match.

We also started poorly in the last game and should've been two behind at half time. We got lucky.

I hope we pump them 5-0 but it'll be close and tense. It always is. We never do it easy.

think they will start Milligan or troisi with Jedi and luongo

yep. we can beat them. it's going to be a lot tougher than most people think.

if we win we are going to have to score a few goals. they will get a couple past us.

don't want to have egg on my face but I'm going 4-0 australia

We'll open them up like a kings cross hooker. Will blow out to 4-0 or so

1 dimensional and should be able to shut them down, unlike Japan who can beat you a number of ways. But they are good and are a worthy semi finalist make no doubt about.

Japan missed 3-4 headers from point blank.

If UAE sit back and defend Timmy's going to have a field day.

IF UAE decide they want to play then it's going to be tough.

By scoring an early goal (one of the best of the tournament in regards to distance and angle) against a lethargic Japan who hadn't rotated any players.

-PB

I can see this going to penalties.

We always say this on our forum "that we'll beat them easily" and it never eventuates

They just beat Japan.

There'll be a melt down if we don't beat them. Japan had easily enough chances to put 4-5 (maybe more) away, and they were poor by their standards. If we can remove the nervous start we could see another repeat of the 2011 semi final score line.

Until we come up against Korea in the final.

Glad im ,ot the only one. Its bad enough we have mods spamming.

Another quality thread. Ban and lock. Sick of seeing these threads. Absolute bullshit.

I was at the game tonight, and the UAE seemed to be in the same gear all night. Only their forwards seemed to tire, but they were able to soak up a lot of pressure for long periods. The Socceroos will need to score first.

Anything can happen in football, we didn't expect it tonight thats for sure, but if we play to our full potential and with a bit of luck we will win.

First step is starting Oar ahead Bresh

win with the b team

I bet the Roos players are breathing a bit better now.

would be a disappointment if we don't. Our best chance ever to win a major tournament, and on home soil too...

Australia will win, and will win Asian cup

If UAE score early, it going to be tough night. We can't miss our chances, that what killed japan. It was like AUS v S. Korea, if we took our chances we would have won, but we wasted them. Its about being clincial with our chances and getting shots on target, that keeper like to punch the ball so we have to be ready for the second ball.

Aside from Cahill's goals, was the Socceroos performance good enough to beat UAE?

Edited by socceroofan4life: 23/1/2015 11:20:25 PM