Japan and Iran the two teams we feared the most are out.

Surely having the tournament at home, we are the favourites to win this? Yes we lost to Korea but if we were to make the final we will be the favourite against Korea / Iraq.

Imagine if we were to win the tournament and Iraq made the final :lol:

Wins against Kuwait, Oman, China, UAE, Iraq to win it :o :lol:

ange shiting himself because we must win the cup now. it when from we must get to semi to we must win the cup now

Ours to lose

Ours to lose now.

UAE are more than capable of beating us if they can beat Japan.

Im not close to confident tbh.

Yeah My thoughts too, ours to lose. What a situation to win our first Major Tournament at Senior level as Men.

No need to be confident, however you must admit we are the favourites going into that game, and would be going into a final at home.

You obviously didn't watch the game. If Honda, Kagawa and Muto didn't go full retard in front of goal they would have put 6 passed them at least.

We will absolutely wallop the UAE if we find our groove in Newcastle.

South Korea did beat us so we cannot be too cocky but yes we are the best team left.

Korea was the poorest side at the World Cup along with us from Asia. Korea really should have finished on 0 points if it was not for the russian keeper gifting them a point.

Iran looked rock solid at this tournament, didn't think anyone would put a goal past them, in fact if it were not for the red they would have got through, i felt they were the better team playing around 80 minutes with 10 men and scoring 2 goals. At the World Cup Iran looked decent to me, at least in the first 2 games the defence was rock solid, they tried to come out and play against Bosnia who were clearly on another level to them.

Japan is the known powerhouse, i always knew we would have a 50/50 chance against them as they can't finish and can't deal with our physicality but still Japan is the team with the most well known players, defending champions and the bookies favourite.

It's all relative.. Would've Iran performed that well in our group? Australia as bad in theirs? We'll never know so I don't why anyone is taking anything from the WC.

Re: op everyone that's still in it is in the driver's seat until you go behind in the match. Today of all days should've taught us that..

Edited by absent_doz_2259: 24/1/2015 12:40:38 AM

Australia v South Korea final.

Way better than UAE V Iraq

We'll pump UAE. They showed tonight that they can't mark off crosses and Cahill, Milligan and Jedinak will punish them.

Not sure that we'll pump them but their difficulties with defending crosses was noticeable tonight. Japan missed some dead set sitters.

Stop counting chickens!

Are we favourites to win it? It's a dream draw.

Nup, I'm absolutely confident that Cahill will kill them.

If Timbo has a bad night , then forget it. You are completely a one man band, one trick pony, etc etc.
At the start i thought you would do well to reach the semi's, nothing has changed my train of thought.

Not sure if you're trolling or just stupid.

Cahill had an off night against Oman and we scored 4.

We've had 8 different scorers in 4 games.

Edited by sydneyfc1987: 24/1/2015 01:52:24 AM

Favourites? I think so yes.
We should be better prepared, better conditioned, better rested, our research of the opposition should be better than theirs, our best players are better than their best and if we go up before they do, we will certainly be in the 'drivers seat'.

The 1980, 1996, 2000, 2004 OFC Nations Cup say hi.

I don't think we're in the driving seat, Sth Korea have shown defensively they are hard to break down (only team without conceding left if I recall). I think fans confidence though with Japan and Iran out has lifted.

Major tournament

dont get ahead of yourself. it's certainly not ours to lose.

we have to beat south korea. they are the form team for the tournament and are the favourites.

Who only beat us one nil with our best players sitting on the bench.

I believe we have more than enough to beat them.

-PB

And we would be at home, inalabrah is just downplaying it not to cause a jinx, it is ours to win. Whether we do it or not we will see, many things can happen but it is silly to believe we would not be favourites at the moment, even with the loss to South Korea.

haha yeah, I intentionally wrote Major Tournament so nubs here don't act smart with the OFC Nations Cup, Heineken :oops: :oops:

How many against Sth Korea, the best team you have played against ?
The first 8 goals were against dross TBF.

YOU? where you from?

If we win the tournament you will probably be saying it doesn't count because we did not beat Japan and Iran :roll:

Everyone just needs to calm the F down. All remaining teams have capable scorers, and we still have a defense capable of incredible brain farts of mind smashing proportions. That isn't to say that we can't win it, just that we are still in the same situation as before, beat down the team in front of us one fame at a time

im not downplaying it. they beat us. they shut us out. they can do it again. dont get cocky.

Past 6 meetings: 1w 2d 3l

asian cup - aus 0 sk 1

20/7/13 Australia 0 South Korea 0 (in Seoul)

14/11/12 Australia 2 South Korea 1 (Hwaseong)

14/1/11 Australia 1 South Korea 1 (Doha)

5/9/09 Australia 1 South Korea 3 (Seoul)

3/6/01 Australia 0 South Korean 1 (Suwon)

Edited by inala brah: 24/1/2015 01:31:28 PM

just gonna leave this here... looks real pretty

It's a very very good opportunity.

we shut our selves out with poor finishing.

Edited by jonomv: 24/1/2015 02:28:25 PM

None of this means shit. Maybe the most recent match but the rest, no means fuck all. Pointless to use, even going back 4 years ago when we drew against Korea in the Asian Cup only 2 players that started for us will start against Korea on Tuesday (Cahill, Jedinak)

Only 7/31 players selected for the last Asian Cup are in this years squad. Let alone going back 14 years ago..

In the group game against SK we had PLENTY of chances to equalise, this without our strongest lineup on the park. I'm more worried about UAE at the minute. They are looking very organised defensively and going foward, Abdulrahman and Mabkhout are very dangerous.

If UAE had wont in normal time I'd be very very concerned.

but I feel we will be fresher and fitter. play our passing game, and if we havent conceded by 60 mins I think we will overrun them.

Hate all you want, but at the time the OFC Nations Cup was the first major tournament Australia could win.

The World Cup was on offer well before this existed. #JustSaying

I don't see UAE being much of a threat, some of the chances japan missed were just horrific, it was essentially a match played in one side of the field. We should win this tournament now, I'd still be nervous if we weren't playing on home soil but the way yesterday's events unfolded we are in the box seat, japan gone and our other biggest rival Iran who also have the physical aspect that matches us gone as well.