Yea, that was a shocker. 

Agree with this which was excellent

Fucking autocomplete... behich *

well fmd. Maybe you did not watch the game. Yes the defender slipped but it was a very nice piece of skill by Juric to flick the ball over the back, catching his opponent off balance. And IMO we domonated the match and created several chances away from home in a quite foreign environment. Not sure what you expect? Maybe you think we are Argentina or Germany or something. We clearly are not. With the players we had and a couple of our better ones missing, I thought we clearly were the better team in an inter-continental playoff away from home

we have good strikers who can score goals. juric is clearly not one of them. his attempt at holding up the ball is to take 3 touches them flop all over the group and never get a free kick. must have the worst flop to free kick ratio in world football. flopped 4 times this morning and no free kicks. can't score to save himself either, god knows his shots to goal ratio for Oz, probably needs a good 100 shots to score. funniest thing is ange refuses to even give him a strike partner. lets play with 4 CMs when we're already good in the middle of the park! god forbid we ever try and solve our issues of creating and scoring! 

i watched the game. and got exactly what i expected sadly. i hate watching us play. forget argentina or brazil, i'd be happy if we were nearly as good as sydney fc or newcastle.

53.2% of our attacks coming through the left as opposed to 25.9% from the right and 20.9% centrally.

Behich>Risdon

89.6% pass completion from Mooy, the highest in our midfield, but I bet the stats are much lower for passes into the penalty area!

Only 47.4% for Risdon, although of course their roles were different.

behich>............................................>risdon>smith

3 shockers.

i'd like to see irvine's pass completion rate.  he seemed to turn over the ball with every touch.

the wasting of possession in the opponents half just kills me to watch.  

afc is not far off becoming the number 3 conference in the world

53.6% for Irvine, although he was in a more advanced role, and assited 2 chances and took two shots himself.

Stats here.

cheers for the link!!.. so he did turn it over every second touch...  imo that's not good enough.  boy needs to learn how to hold the ball safely and pass.

bailey wright 63%
josh risdon 47%
Jackson irvine 53%

this is very poor passing 

:lol:

Mooy 93.4% crosses and free kicks to absolutely no one.

Is there not a single player that can take a free kick besides Mooy?

Besides which if you're taking a free kick on the left into the box you want a left footer to swing it away from the keeper between the 6 yard box and the penalty spot.  Not one delivery there despite numerous chances.

I noticed that.  I wonder why?

Im just replying to the most recent one, in know others have disagreed. A few positive things against a couple of minnow teams doesn't mean anything. Until the guy can play attractive and cohesive football for the national team then ill continue to hold my opinion. The goal against Syria was sloppy anyway and he was lucky have made contact with the ball. Look I'm not saying the guy wasn't once good, and he seems to have found some club form, but put him next to Mooy and the guy looks like NSWPL2 player. Mind you Mooy had a poor game today.

Good to see Behich and Luongo bringing some of their club form into the NT.  Better result than thought might be. Are Leckie and Kruse injury free now or are they still in doubt.  Their experience should be a huge asset.  

Well I am surprised we got a draw in the away leg, because Hondouras are hard to beat at home, I thought we were going to get smashed.

But once again poor finishing is royally fucking up the Socceroos, bad finishing (in addition to some bad defending) is what got the Socceroos into this intercontinental mess in the first place.

We are still in it, and I suppose the only other consolation (in addition to not losing), is that Hondouras are poor travellers, but we must respect them, any win or score draw will see them through.

So potential line ups on Wednesday night?

--------------------Ryan--------------------
-----Milligan--Sainsbury--Jurman----
-------------Jedinak--Mooy--------------
Leckie-----------Luongo-------------Behich
-------------Rogic--------------------------
--------------------------Cahill-------------

Perhaps we might need to see one of Kruse, Troisi or Gersbach there insted of Behich/Luongo just to give us a bit more penetration. However I find it hard to drop either of them considering the form for both club and country they are currently in. 

I'll leave it for Ange to sort out...

Juric has to learn to head the ball down.  Cahill wouldn't have made the same error.

Thought Australia played overall much more positive in this game then the others.  The pitch looked very heavy underfoot which wouldn't have helped.

Did see a lot more 'go forward' from Australia in this game.  Not your usual backwards and sideways rubbish we've seen in the last 10 matches.

Interesting stat I heard on the commentary that Australia hadn't won a game o/s in over a year.  Is that right?

When its all said and done we are in an excellent position. The team played extremely well in the conditions. Yes the finishing/crossing was sub par but there are some real positives in the way this team is playing. Harsh that a lot of the focus is on Juric's miss, I thought he played a very solid game holding the ball up in tight spaces and pressing/closing down channels from the front. Luongo, Behich, Sainsbury were the stand outs for me, but overall a great team effort.

I would like to see:


------------------Ryan-----------------------
Degenek------Sainsbury--------- Jurman
Leckie---- Luongo---Milligan---- Behich 
 --------- Mooy ----- Cahill-----------------
---------------Juric----------------------------

Timmy playing in a slight withdrawn role against Chile was the best I'd seen him play in years. If he's fit it will give us a real attacking intent. If not, I'd look to Kruse with Rogic on as an impact player.

Either way we should be able to bring in 4/5 fresh sets of legs into the starting XI which will be an immense bonus.

We really need someone else to take freekicks a and corners, mooy can't do it. Surely we have another option. Game after game he wastes what is our biggest advantage. The bloke has really gotta pick it up for the roos, yep he gets on the ball alot, but his poor first touch and nothing but sideways passing leaves alot to be desired. Not to mention if he ever joins in a counter attack he kills it with his slow ball movement. 

Yep, last away win was UAE in September 2016. 

Of the eight matches since then seven were draws, at least.

Our home record is also certainly worth bringing up.

Didn't we beat Cameroon at the Confed Cup??

That header he only had to put either side of the goalkeeper and it was goal. Usually strikers are taught to head it down and back the way the ball was coming (as generally keeper will be wrong footed). Juric did neither.

Was anyone else really disappointed with how Honduras played?? I haven't seen Australia dominate an away game like that since our first round qualifiers (Krygzstan at home were more threatening and built up attacks better than Honduras did in this game). I really thought they'd bring more to the table being at home (I thought they'd play with more skill than the Syrians).

Do Honduras usually just play the long ball .. not generally the sort of play you associate with an Central American team, especially at home (and to a country that probably hasn't played in Central America for decades).

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