Squad announcement live at 5pm AEST: https://youtu.be/ge7AaqmRULo

Can't really assess this until the game starts. If we knock them easily off the ball I'll feel good. They'll come out wildly no doubt. 

Very strong midfield.

Daniel ARZANI	Lommel SK, Belgium	6 (1)
Aziz BEHICH	Giresunspor, Turkey	41 (2)
Martin BOYLE	Hibernian FC, Scotland	7 (3)
Milos DEGENEK	Red Star Belgrade, Serbia	31 (1)
Kenneth DOUGALL	Blackpool FC, England	3 (0)
Mitchell DUKE	Fagiano Okayama, Japan	9 (4)
Callum ELDER	Hull City AFC, England	0 (0)
Denis GENREAU	Toulouse FC, France	1 (0)
Rhyan GRANT	Sydney FC, Australia	14 (0)
Ajdin HRUSTIC	Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany	7 (1)
Jackson IRVINE	FC St. Pauli, Germany	37 (6)
Paul IZZO (Gk)	Xanthi FC, Greece	0 (0)
James JEGGO	Aris Thessalonki, Greece	5 (0)
Awer MABIL	FC Midtjylland, Denmark	17 (4)
Ryan MCGOWAN	Kuwait SC, Kuwait	21 (0)
Riley MCGREE	Birmingham City FC, England	3 (0)`
Aaron MOOY	Shanghai Port FC, China	43 (6)
Tom ROGIC	Celtic FC, Scotland	47 (9)
Mathew RYAN (Gk)	Real Sociedad, Spain	61 (0)
Trent SAINSBURY	KV Kortrijk, Belgium	50 (3)
Brad SMITH	Seattle Sounders FC, United States of America	22 (0)
Harry SOUTTAR	Stoke City FC, England	5 (6)
Ryan STRAIN	Maccabi Haifa, Israel	0 (0)
Adam TAGGART	Cerezo Osaka, Japan	12 (6)
Lawrence THOMAS (Gk)	SønderjyskE Fodbold, Denmark	1 (0)
Danny Vukovic (Gk)	NEC Nijmegen, Netherlands	4 (0)
Bailey WRIGHT	Sunderland AFC, England	24 (1)

https://www.socceroos.com.au/news/september-squad-announcement

No Ruka 🙁

Cheers Pala. I'll put the squad in position order to for easy reading. Can't stand the Roos and their alphabetical order.

Can't get over the 3 left backs and so many centre backs. Borrello has been out for a bit. We seem thin up top but those midfielders are also an attacking threat. Really won't care about two 1:0 wins at this stage. 

Ryan, Thomas, Vukovic, Izzo
Strain, Grant, Degenek, Souttar, Sainsbury, McGowan, Wright, Behich, Elder, Smith
Dougall, Genreau, Hrustic, Irvine, Jeggo, Mooy, Rogic, McGree
Arzani, Boyle, Duke, Mabil, Taggart

Pretty sure he's still clubless. At least we have a lot of options waiting around who didn't get picked. A lot of these squad members aren't going to play anyway. It's annoying that someone like McGree got a 2017 call up but still has so few caps.

4 goalkeepers ??

Izzo just in case. I guess 4 will be cut for each game day.

Only got his first cap in June this year.

Hmmm are we back 3ing vs China perhaps? Elder is a fantastic crosser. Wish we'd tried this in the previous round at least. I could live with this 11 and it does offer plenty of danger from set plays which I assume China still can't organise themselves for.


                              Ryan
           Sainsbury   Degenek   Souttar
Grant                                                     Elder
                 Mooy       Hrustic
                        Rogic
                Boyle  Taggart

Admittedly we've been blessed in midfield but he is the one player I want to see more and more in the national team.

I agree.

Has to potential to get 50+ caps

Preview show on 10 Bold at 4pm AEST tomorrow, first chance for Ten to make a good impression.

Speed hosting? :D

Strain wouldn't be there if Karacic was fit

Arnie suggested the only reason there are 3 LBs is because Smith arrives on Wednesday. 

RB and ST are positions of concern with no Maclaren, Leckie and Karacic available. With those three instead of Duke, McGowan and Izzo that squad is bloody strong. Desperately want to see Deng push on because we would then have 4 very strong CBs with him, Souttar, Degenek and Sainsbury. Juric should be in too IMO.

Zappas didn't say, although Hill tweeted a video from the set today: https://twitter.com/simonhill1894/status/1431504026965712897

Hopefully the lighting's better on the day lol

I’d like to see smith as a left winger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_national_football_team#Current_squad

Experience in key positions and some Brazilians creeping in. Also really curious how other group games go.

Could be an option considering the paucity of forwards. He probably won't play the first game though as he'll only just have arrived from the US.

People wanted kuol or Juric, none

Ryan
Grant-Sainsbury-Degenek-Elder
Jeggo
Boyle-Mooy-Irvine-Hrustic
Taggart

Great to see Strain. He was great last season and built a really good number of appearances in the A-L before going abroad, where he's doing well and starting now. He's playing European football now and regularly too. The RB position will be very competitive in coming years. 

position coverage

GKs: 4
Left backs: 3
Right back: 3
cb: 4
DM 4
AM 4
wingers: 3
strikers: 2

not much depth up front but thats no surprise I suppose

It makes for hard reading to see where regular squad Socceroos are playing abroad these days.... 

hope strain gets a run, underrated player.

you should take a look at the 2014 wc squad - this a massive improvement

2012-2014 were fucking darks days lmao.

Does Arzani just get a free pass into every side? He played good for about 20 minutes at the olympics and has not bolted a spot down anywhere. Stay and concentrate on getting a club game.