Amazing that our defender is practically the leading scorer, if we take off penalties. Good spread of goals across players. Just need a couple of them on Monday and defend for your lives.

There's nothing to ponder. Jmac is the only striker we've got. He has to play. Leckie's not a striker. Maybe throw Boyle further up the field as a quasi forward. With Boyle, Mclaren, Mcgree, Hrustic we have decent scoring options.

My big fear is he will bring Duke back just for the whole "physical presence" thing. :shudders:

And in the last 10 years our results against them are 5W, 2D, 1L

The list of scorers at least shows we are not a one trick pony like in 2018 with Jedineck and Timmy a distant second. 

Jedinak was a scorer?

He scored twice in the world cup (penalties) and a hatrick against Honduras in the playoffs. 

Yes from penalties and free kicks.He scored 2 penalties in the last WC -against Denmark and France and in the play off game v Honduras 2 penalties and a free kick(which did take a deflection off a defender)

Whole bunch of new posters. 

Good stuff.

Yeah and some names and profile pics I'm fairly familiar with surprise me that they're under 100 total posts. Quality over quantity their posts are. 

Tim Cahill?

Will Arnold start Hrustic v Peru despite being on Yellow card? Would be death if he got 2nd yellow and Roos down to 10 men?! I guess at this point it’s just ALL IN no matter the risks

Oh wow is that how the cards work?

do peru have players on a yellow?

Why did juric decline so much this year?

Probably our best striker apart from cahill in terms of international performances imo

scored some key goals for us, and not just when put on a plate

I could be wrong but think they carry over

Hrustic wouldn't be sent off for getting a yellow against Peru, mate. Each game starts afresh and a player can only be sent off for a red or two yellows regardless of previous games.

Can someone please find where it is stated that yellow cards from one playoff, i.e., Hrustic would be on a yellow at the start of the Peru game. I find that very hard to believe. 

Are you joking? You really don't know how cards work in football??

Even if we somehow get past Peru, I'll spoil the WC for youses:

1. Spiflicated by the surrender monkeys
2. Sneak a win against Tunisia
3. Either (i) get thrashed by the Danes (if they need the points), or (ii) park a Mad Max bus and steal a draw (if a draw suits them)
3(ii). We get fustigated by Argentina, and our new team anthem is officially adopted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV2A8icT7PI

He was massive in the WC qualification. He stupidly played at the WC with an injury I believe. The move to Bulgaria killed him off. A shame because he had been doing well and would probably be near peak now had he kicked on.

Without the injuries he'd surely be signed up by Dortmund or Leverkusen. 

Close, Freiburg enquired. You're an insufferable prat, you know that? 

As insufferable as linking every player with a random European club for no other reason. 

Hardly. We all try to discuss and justify what our players should aspire to. Any Australian who succeeds should aspire to be signed by good clubs. All you have ever done in every reply to anyone on this forum is abuse and antagonise. Not once have you engaged in any kind of discussion and that shouldn't leave you wondering why people don't respond to anything you write on here. Your account should've been closed after the first few posts.

It can be different in WCQ windows/rounds - just wanted to make sure Hrustic won’t be on yellow at start of Peru game that’s all

I have to say, your pulchritude appears inversely proportional to your vocabulary ;)

As someone explained earlier, Hrustic wasn't sitting on a yellow coming into this morning's game, so the one yellow he got today pretty much means nothing in the context of the Peru game.

Agree.

The stupid move was not taking up the $15 million offer to play in China.

reading Peruvian news....

Un “equipo muy básico” e “inferior al de Rusia 2018″: así ven los especialistas a Australia

I think we have a massive advantage over Peru in that we are totally familiar with the stadium and the Middle- east in general.  

Plus we've played a number of sudden death elimination qualifiers - today, Scotland 1985, Israel 1989, 1993 against Argentina, 1997 against Iran, 2001 and 2005 against Uruguay, plus last WCQ Campaign against Syria and Costa Rica. Arnold as a player and coach has been involved since 1997, or even 1993. He has a lot of sudden death experience in big games.

Apart from a really good Chilean side in World Cup 2014, outside the big three of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, I think the other South American teams may have done little outside South America.

Unless Peru are so superior to us, technically, and I doubt they will be superior tactically, plus have better physical conditioning, which I doubt, I think  Peru could struggle. A number of past Socceroos said they initially found playing in Asia  to be quite  a culture shock from 2006 - 2008. Hence, they considered they underperformed.

A big advantage will be for Aus to score first - more than against most higher ranked Asian teams.

I have no doubt they will be superior to us technically, in tight spaces, when they are in Ball Possession. I  think they could get really frustrated if they are behind and lose composure.

It will also be interesting to see where we are in comparison to Uruguay in 2005. Both are/have been ranked 5th best in South America - in 2005 and now.