Scrappy win in Jordan lucky bonus really. Top of group after only 4 games is great. Syria looking strong with 5/5- hope we can dodge them & Japan next round

Kuwait winning their opening game of the Gulf Cup 3-1 against Saudi, but losing their second match 1-2 against Oman last night.

Been saying this for a long time....and he should be made captain;  that honour would elevate his game to an even higher level.

brb looking for Iranian football forums.

If we were in the same spot as Iran right now half the forum would be on suicide watch

I mean Iran are really in a hole. They need to watch Iraq and Bahrain next week. If Iraq win they'll have a 7 point advantage. Bahrain winning would see two teams pull away from Iran. I guess Iran would like that game to be a draw.

South Korea should be fine but the others are lingering. I'm so glad we've got the dirty work done early but it's not over yet. 

* Hong Kong

The structure of qualifying means that all the group 1 teams all have an easy run home. Iran should still make it and the only biggish team I think will miss will be Uzbekistan. They conceded 2 goals in the last 5 minutes against the Saudis and totally blew it. Oh well as long as only one of the Saudis and Uzbeks go through that is a major boost for us. Looking good for us qualifying though as of the big four teams only Japan and us are cruising.

It was Pot 1 v Pot 2 last night so bound to be some upsets again good to see the 2nd and 3rd tier AFC nations steadily improving

Happy with the win as it is a graveyard for us over there but I thought the overall play and performance was quite poor and scrappy especially in the 2nd half . This isn't the first time we've noticeably dropped in the 2nd half in these qualifiers and probably won't be the last. 

We SHOULD have this group wrapped up now with only one more away game to play really want to see us experiment more with tactics and lineups now.

It would be awesome, but they won't. Last night Bahrain had a chance to open up a gap to Iran, but could only draw against Burma. They're obviously too shit. Iran will qualify from 2nd.

Quite a few slightly unusual results last night. Even South Korea drew with Lebanon. 

Now having watched the game (thanks ABC for on demand replay) I can safely say that was absolutely disgraceful in the second half. Also Jordan completely robbed of a penalty, yes initial contact was shoulder to shoulder but he would not have gone to ground if he wasn't subsequently tripped. Unless there is more improvement in (yet again) ball speed and transitional play AMNT is going to get taught some lessons in the next round of qualifying.

Solid performance and good to keep a clean sheet at a tough place.

Rogic was probably our best but like the rest they got fatigued in the second half and started to make mistakes.

I agree Boyle was good off the bench just backing himself and running at defenders but in context it was against a tired Jordan defence but it’s good to have options on the bench.

Agree the crossing wasn’t the best but something to improve especially with Smith.

Hopefully we can wrap it soon so we can rest a few players.

Good win. Nothing after the first goal kinda sucks. Taggart got absolutely butt fucked by poor delivery after shithouse delivery.

Surprised Rogic didn't even get on the score sheet. Fucking what did we do for 80 minutes nothing at all by the looks

wow imagine if iran miss out 

correct, who.
I suppose some would suggest Behich.
No matter the 2nd half and we should've done this or that snatching the away win is all that counts.

Pala, good response to the you tube highlights loser :P

https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/takeaways-from-australias-win-over-jordan-534021

This is probably better here. 

But his centre back partner Milos Degenek was often left to guard the left flank alone as Brad Smith pushed up and Jackson Irvine drifted inside. Jordan continually exploited the gaps that Smith left

That's how Arnie rolls with both sides pushing up. 

Smith and Awer Mabil were guilty of a number of wasted crosses against Jordan ending decent attacking opportunities. Smith often seemed to overhit his deliveries while Mabil drilled many of his crosses into defenders' legs.

That sort of shitty crossing is endemic in the A League as well.  Always frustrating.  

football was nice to watch at times. Commentators sounded weirdly bored though!

3 points in the middle east is always a great achievement!

Really means we are good for the second round. Current second placed teams - 
                  Goal Dif           points             number
China             +11                 7                     4
Kuwait            +13                7                     3
Bahrain           +2                  8                     2
Uzbekestan     +4                 6                     8
Oman              +6                 9                     1
Kyrgstan          +5                 6                     7
Thailand          +3                 7                     5
Lebanon          +2                 7                      6

Those in 1 to 5 currently in position to qualify for the next round of qualifying.

Undefeated start to the campaign.  Well done to Arnie and the Roos!

Good news to wake up to.  Well done.   Great pass to Taggart & touch for the goal. 

Take the points and run lol.

Just repeating it here. Jeggo got a yellow and is suspended for the next game.

Ha. This Is the 2nd one ive missed this qualification,  yet before this quali id not missed one in id say over a decade. 

Obviously there's plenty of talk on here and i tend to have fox sports news as background noise at home,  have they not been pushing it cause i can't recall much if anything said about it and didn't know whether id missed it because of that. 

Or maybe it's just me. I was awake too as our toddler decided it was playtime all night. 

Who would you have instead?

https://youtu.be/YyhSi52V_sw

Highlights here. Why didn't we shoot more today? We often went to the corner and just played with it. An odd one but the result is what we wanted. 

Just learning now NZ will play in Lithuania Tuesday. Nevertheless we really should have set something up. 

Agree to it all. Luongo is still our Wildcard and this decent Wednesday form is exciting. Sainsbury needs the fitness. Arzani, Boyle, Ikon and Mabil are going to be fantastic. Leckie and Borrello will have to lift. 

Also, how bloody good does Martin Boyle look! Him and Arzani to be back (fully) and all of a sudden you’ve got some great quality and great depth. Tough decisions for arnie to pick someone to miss out. Maybe Goodwin and borrello make way for ikon and Arzani. 

I don’t care where or how, but Jackson Irvine has to be in the Socceroos starting XI

A rather scrappy effort by the 'roos, but will take the 3 points.
GA, never let Mooy take another corner!
Why Brad Smith back in the squad?