Nice drive into the box but we delay the shot a fraction too long and the chance goes

we win the penalty shootout and take the bronze

malaysia actually looked tougher than thailand, very organized

https://assets.the-afc.com/2025_AFC_U17_Asian_Cup/Qualifiers/AFC-U17-Asian-Cup-2025-Qualifiers---updated.pdf

https://assets.the-afc.com/2025_AFC_U20_Asian_Cup/Qualifiers/AFC-U20-Asian-Cup-2025-Qualifiers---updated.pdf

Currenrly 1 nil up 
Been a stalemate til now with australia effective getting the ball back instantly but lose the ball quickly when playing into solomon islands half

This looks like a third string squad looking at the team list. Must be trying to improve our depth

we miss an open net after some pretty link up play

pretty poor to be honest, not a lot of sugar coating that. Conditions might be playing a role

the squad is pretty mitigating circumstances

really interesting how we are now doing a lot more youth football with a variety of squad quality

in the nsl era there was a lot of emphasis of bridging the gap for up coming youth to get them match ready. Youth squads were used to pressure clubs to play young players

maybe we are doing that again?

now losing 2-1

no obvious coaching issues as a team - we seem to have the right distances between the lines and opening passing lanes

just getting some basics wrong at an individual level. If a ball is underhit a player will just watch the ball rather than running to it which lets it get intercepted

if we get into the box after some clever 1-2 a player will just freeze in indecision

the goal we got was a technical finish though

This is a tour so curious if they improve or if any players are good enough for the u17 asian cup 

annnnd we lost

bit of a drop in quality from our better youth teams tbh

Apparentlt it was solomon islands u19 team and our 2nd/3rd string u17 team. Thats pretty mitigating tbh didnt realize the age gao

I wonder what are our 1st and 2nd stringers are doing now that's more important?

Good question. I guess it depends on the point of the tournaments

In the 90s they were used by les to accelerate young players to senior match readiness so they would get minutes earlier in their career and try and pressure clubs to sign or play young players on their fringes

Would be nice if trevor morgan had a chat on a podcast or something to communicate the vision and give a summary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6F9Kov_yU

Joeys against Solomon Islands U19 about to start

3 nil at half time

Doing a lot better at the physical side of the game against a u19 side. Harrassing players, stepping towards under hit passes, riding challenges, winning 2nd balls

This will be good prep to get early a league minutes which i hope is the point of these tournaments

Like the first game we faded in the 2nd half. Good practice þo get up to speed physically

watching the replay 

looks like we faded 2nd half

remember this is our joeys v their u19, but a much weaker nation too

https://www.youtube.com/live/5zCDsBRjVPE

https://x.com/FootballAUS/status/1827949039046086709

u23 squad. Birth year and minutes last season in brackets

Gks: Beach (2003), cox(2004,90), warshawsky (2004,180)

cbs Majekodumni (2004,704), Hayden Matthews (2004,1032), Nathan Paull (2003, 598),

lbs Kasey Bos (2004,7)

rbs Madanha (2004,255) Rawlins (2004,781), Simmons (2003,1373)

mids: Alagish (2003,1073) Hollman (2003, 1484) Priestman (2003, 1514) Valadon (2003, 235)

wingers: Jed Drew (2003,1378), Dukuly (2003, 37), Grimaldi (2003, 939), Taylor (2004,1801)

strikers: Bozanovski (2004, 211), Blair (2004,38) Vidic (2004,100), Walatee (2004,56)

I guess we are only selecting players born 2003/2004? Bernando is the best player I can see missing who has an acl injury. Archie goodwin is 2004 i believe too but got a zillion strikers

Where's younis? 

Looks like its a 2005 free zone haha

we struggling a bit against vanuatu... they've had some good chances on the counter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygPeFqoWY0 0-0 after 30 mins.

nice build up and goal for the aussies 

watching the replay is this vanuatu's senior team?

despite that being a 2nd string u21 side against their senior squad (albeit one missing kaltak) that equalled our biggest ever win against vanuatu. Last time we won 3-0 was at home in 2004

https://www.11v11.com/teams/australia/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Vanuatu/

goals were nice and some really nice skills from a lot of the players. Grimaldi, Taylor, priestman, matthews, some good talent there

our u21 win 4-0 against vanuatu senior team. Good performances though we missed some really gettable chances

Vidic and bozanovski look decent

Incidentally this was australia's biggest win against thier senior team

We should do more of these but with slightly better nations such as India, New Zealand, Tajikistan etc. I believe players learn more from playing against older more senior players 

if we do enough it extends the season, and helps fringe a league youth players get first team minutes

Thought Vidic was poor tbh. His goal was a cracker but he was so ridiculously wasteful it’s not funny.

Yeah all over we were very wasteful

There was one moment where vidic recieved the ball with his back to goal, turned and shot just wide that grabbed my eye tho