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oh feck................. The hard way we play and the way Honduras are going to fall about the place wasting time is a recipe for lots of cards.
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Still a better referee than Peter Green.
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+xStill a better referee than Peter Green. True that. Should've handed Millsy 3 yellows, but I'd still rather they not give them than hand them out for imaginary fouls like this bloke.
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Langerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula.
Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid.
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+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. He does not need to do 3 stops, there are a number of ways to do it with 2 stops. For example, Valencia -> Madrid -> Mexico City -> San Pedro Sula
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johnszasz
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+x+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. He does not need to do 3 stops, there are a number of ways to do it with 2 stops. For example, Valencia -> Madrid -> Mexico City -> San Pedro Sula Yeah I find it odd he didn't get a train to Madrid and just go across the pond from there. Anyway I think he's arrived. The rest should be there now.
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johnszasz
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+x+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. He does not need to do 3 stops, there are a number of ways to do it with 2 stops. For example, Valencia -> Madrid -> Mexico City -> San Pedro Sula Yeah I find it odd he didn't get a train to Madrid and just go across the pond from there. Anyway I think he's arrived. The rest should be there now.
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So as it stands Kruse, Milligan and Leckie are in Australia? I've seen no reports of cutting down to 23. Risdon training in number 7 and Jeggo 5.
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+x+x+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. He does not need to do 3 stops, there are a number of ways to do it with 2 stops. For example, Valencia -> Madrid -> Mexico City -> San Pedro Sula Yeah I find it odd he didn't get a train to Madrid and just go across the pond from there. Anyway I think he's arrived. The rest should be there now. Seems that Air Europa flight is only on Thursdays, which would mean he'd just get there the day before the game.
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+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. Why bother calling him up lol
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Just seen some pics/video of the pitch. It doesn't look great but not terrible either, could get heavy with rain. Bomb it up to Juric regularly imo.
By now, American Samoa must have realised that Australias 22-0 win over Tonga two days earlier was no fluke.
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+x+xLangerak with his itinerary. Valencia Frankfurt Paris Mexico City San Pedro Sula. Interestingly air Europa have a direct flight on Thursday from Madrid. Why bother calling him up lol A mystery, it clearly should be Ryan plus 2 of Birighitti, Jones and Vukovic.
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I'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space.
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+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. And for the better I think. Both players are better used at home, and we'd be much more likely to get a draw or narrow win with proper fullbacks
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+x+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. And for the better I think. Both players are better used at home, and we'd be much more likely to get a draw or narrow win with proper fullbacks But how will we replace their pace on the counter, say what you want about the likes of Kruse but against Syria in Malaysia his pace and getting behind the defence was essential. We then took him off and the Syrians then just pushed up and applied a ton of pressure knowing we couldn't do anything to stop it.
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+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. 4 4 2 diamond coming back... yeah baby. this is why the sessions have been secretive.
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+x+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. 4 4 2 diamond coming back... yeah baby. this is why the sessions have been secretive. Hate that setup. Need to have 3 in the midfield. Any more is too much, any less is not enough.
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+x+x+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. 4 4 2 diamond coming back... yeah baby. this is why the sessions have been secretive. Hate that setup. Need to have 3 in the midfield. Any more is too much, any less is not enough. Was pretty rubbish when we've used it. Although tbf, playing Luongo as a winger may have had something to do with it.
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Jedinak will start no doubt. With Risdon and Behich on the flanks we probably can exploit our midfield benefits too.
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Degenek Sainsbury Jurman
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Luongo and Jedinak will need to keep an eye on our wingbacks when they get forward. Two players with captain experience I can trust to do that. I'm please with our depth when we have Wright, Rogic, Irvine and others not being mentioned much for a start.
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I just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin.
Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left!
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+xI just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin. Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left! This wouldn't be the game where i'd play a player out of position, especially a very young player in what will be an incredibly intimidating atmosphere. We need the players to be as comfortable and confident as possible.
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+x+x+x+xI'm just starting to wonder if Ange might be planning to play with a more defensive setup in San Pedro Sula? No Leckie or Kruse reduces a lot of our creativity on the flanks. we'll probably play Behich and Risdon as the wingbacks and play narrow to clog up the midfield to deny them space. 4 4 2 diamond coming back... yeah baby. this is why the sessions have been secretive. Hate that setup. Need to have 3 in the midfield. Any more is too much, any less is not enough. Was pretty rubbish when we've used it. Although tbf, playing Luongo as a winger may have had something to do with it. well with a 442 diamond the only wingers are the fullbacks. problem is the left and right center mids get pushed out to the sides trying to find space. its just too congested in the middle. so you end up with your center mids playing wider where they aren't effective and it turns into a crappy 442. i absolutely loath playing in a diamond 4, especially in the right and left spots. 2 in the middle also sucks because while its good when attacking as you can very easily make the field huge and have heaps of room, you will constantly get raped in the middle by any team playing with 3. 3 is just the perfect number.
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+xI just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin. Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left! if he plays mcgowan ill be doing a lot of swearing, even more than normal. that guy just the worst.
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+x+xI just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin. Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left! This wouldn't be the game where i'd play a player out of position, especially a very young player in what will be an incredibly intimidating atmosphere. We need the players to be as comfortable and confident as possible. Yeah you're right. Gersbach should be considered a future RWB option and we could test it. That left foot is too good though.
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+x+x+xI just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin. Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left! This wouldn't be the game where i'd play a player out of position, especially a very young player in what will be an incredibly intimidating atmosphere. We need the players to be as comfortable and confident as possible. Yeah you're right. Gersbach should be considered a future RWB option and we could test it. That left foot is too good though. Gersbach should not be playing RWB because he should be play LWB.
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+x+xI just hope Ange doesn't go full psycho and start McGowan. I can't trust the guy much. Ruka is only best from the bench when they get tired. Goodwin can't start such a big game I feel. It appears 3 will be dropped if Leckie, Kruse and Milligan return. My tip is McGowan, Jeggo and Goodwin. Can Gersbach play on the right? I don't mind Risdon so much but Imagine Gersbach right and behich left! if he plays mcgowan ill be doing a lot of swearing, even more than normal. that guy just the worst. McGowan should not play but he did play in Australia's best performance of recent time, the game against Chile and did quite well.
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For what it's worth: 
By now, American Samoa must have realised that Australias 22-0 win over Tonga two days earlier was no fluke.
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World Cup qualifier: Socceroos striker Tomi Juric using sauna for Honduras preparationEvery day after training during the weeks before he travelled to Honduras, Tomi Juric did something he hated. After every gruelling training session at the foot of the Swiss mountains where the temperature was just a few degrees above freezing, the Socceroos' striker would sit in a sauna. For 15 minutes at a time, he would force his body to cope with the hot, humid air while his muscles were on the verge of cramping after tiring sessions with his club, Luzern. As he describes it, stints in the sauna were the best way he could prepare for lasting 90 minutes in the tropical climate of San Pedro Sula.  Sweating it out: Tomi Juric has been spending time in the sauna to prepare for the Honduras clash. Photo: AAPWith Robbie Kruse injured and sent straight to Australia and Tim Cahill still in doubt for the first leg, there's a strong chance Juric will have to last the entire game in one of the more challenging climates for any footballer, let alone one coming from a late European autumn. While his teammates were getting changed, Juric stayed in the sauna to help himself adjust as quick as possible for a match that will be played just below 30 degrees and with 82 per cent humidity. "I've been prepping for it as well, doing a lot of heat adjusting in the sauna. It's just that little bit for that 1 per cent maybe," he said. "If it helps, it helps, we know it's going to be humid here. The most important thing is we know what to expect regarding the conditions. We'll be as prepared as possible for it." The 26-year-old wasn't just content on earning a place in the squad for Honduras, nor a starting position in the first 11, but being able to play at his absolute best in taxing conditions. It's why he continued to lie in a sauna in Honduras, using the facilities at their training ground at Estadio Morazan. "I just sit in there after training. I try to get a good 10, 15 minutes in. I'm not a big fan of the sauna, I do it because it will help a little bit and just to get the feel of the heat," Juric said. "It's cold in Switzerland now. If I just came in here it would be a bit of a shock to the system. It's just to keep it on level terms." The heat and humidity may have required major adjustment for Juric but he has no concern for the hostile environment inside the Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula. Honduras' home fans are some of the most passionate in Latin America and the infamous stadium an intimidating cauldron, and that's exactly what Juric wants. "I quite enjoy that, these hostile environments. I like playing in these sort of games," he said. "I did it with the Wanderers where we travelled to some pretty hostile environments. "When we played in Guangzhou against Evergrande it was one of the big ones in regards of the occasion and what was on the line for them and their fans. I quite enjoy it. I think that will bring the best out of a lot of us." That was the least of Juric's worries upon landing in Honduras to find out his luggage didn't arrive, meaning he had to train in his running shoes during his first session with the Socceroos. It wasn't until Wednesday when Juric could resume full training with his boots after his bag arrived late on Tuesday night. "I lost my bag – or they lost my bag. It got in last night which is good. I can join into training today which will be good, I'm looking forward to it," he said. "Today will be back to normal [my bag arrived] last night, nothing's missing, so it's good."
World Cup qualifier: Socceroos striker Tomi Juric using sauna for Honduras preparation
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