I think this definately helped us, the less football we have to play to make it the better lol.

Schwarzer absolutely saved us in Montevideo. I’m glad we didn’t have to play in Lima

So the defining moment from the 2005 qualification moment in Sydney was John Aloisi running around the track with his shirt off until the team catches up to him. In contrast, the definining moment from today's 2022 qualification moment is Andrew Redmayne doing a squat with a stupefying look on his face waiting for the team to run to him and mob him.

If Redmayne realises that his instantaneous actions, after saving the penalty, would become etched in Aussie football legend, I wonder if he'd do it differently :)

aha yeah, that was fun

That's time lost though. 

never been more happy to be 'wrong' in my life 

No, tomorrow's game. 

that mabil penalty was the best ball he's ever hit, what a finish to the game. wait was harry souttar on the sideline?

😀

We weren't the team playing for penalties for most of the game mate
Give me a break.

We were the better team on the day in a cagey game. 
We were better than Peru full stop. It's amazing the lengths people will go to in order to justify their cultural cringe

Good on you.Now the hard part starts as we should be aiming to get past the group stage.Qatar is like a second home to us now

Yes it was -now that is commitment from the big fella

I thought the referee was very good.The Peruvian supporters gave the game atmosphere and it is always a tough way to lose.

Agree.

Ref was fantastic he mostly got calls right and took no nonsense - Bad refs cop it hard but good refs rarely get praised this bloke did a solid job 

Didn't seem like an upset the way the teams played, Grazor!

Agree the ref was fair however, late in the second half of ET he was giving Behich the hurry up when he got cramp yet allowed the Peru player 2 mins to get treated on the pitch without so much as a whisper???? Apart from that "invisible reffing" which was great to see...

As for the Peru fans, 120 min non stop singing, wow must have been amazing atmosphere.... huge balls on the one middle aged dude in the Socceroos top in the midst of all that though, my eye kept on going to him all game ... Well played buddy ... respect to you whoever you are :)

Be amazed.

We outplayed them.

You were correct.

Interesting to revisit your predictions and the responses, John.

Tbh though remate could’ve probably just saved them by standing there. Not sure it helped. He looked a bit dumb on the first few. 

*redmayne 

would be nice i'd be happy to win against Tunisia to at least give us a 'sniff' i think the last couple world cups we have pretty much be out by the 3rd game killing a lot of excitement

I dont expect anything but a loss to French but if we can go in to the Denmark game with at least 3 points it would actually be incredibly exciting and we 'could' make it to the rd of 16 but im not holding my breath on outsing the Danes but it would be nice to not be pretty much out after game 2 

What one has to recognise is that the current team is a better team unit, than the individuals who comprise that  team.

They have been coached in a system. Hence, when they play senior football for Australia, they have been playing that system all through their development years.

This helps team cohesion. Australia has been well-coached, but has had little time in camps, like some of the Asian opposition who mainly play in their domestic leagues. The Socceroos have improved in camp over  four successive weeks and three successive games.

I wonder if Lyndon Dykes is not regretting his decision. Boyle and Souttar won't be!

I also wonder whether us being at the World Cup, and Italy not, could see Volpato and/or Circati commit to Australia after all. Especially since 2026 onwards is a 48 team world cup, so we should really expect to be in every world cup for a good time to come, as long as we aren't complacent.

Commiserations to the Peru fans though. The tears they shed were real. They are hurt. Absolutely devastated they are. So close to making the world cup only to fall at the final hurdle.


And to make it worse the Australian keeper that took their penalty shootout shots was dancing like a drunken bogan lol

Yeah that was great.

yep was good gamesmenship by Mr Wiggle.
I actually thought the ref may have given him a yellow for that, the intent was more obvious than their keeper desparately needing a dose of H2O lol.......

My footy mates in our chat group we're already calling Redmayne Grobbelaar from the first pens :)

Surely Peru can’t be better than Colombia or Chile. They were rubbish. 

Exactly.. as I say on this site ALL the time, we must be the only group of supporters in world football that talk their players DOWN! We have an inferiority complex, ange used to mention it when he started coaching us and it's even more ture today. 

The current team we have is nowhere near as bad as ppl make out infact many would get games in that 06 team. All of hrustic, rogic, mooy, Ryan, Souttar, Boyle, sainsbury and Irvine would have made that squad. 

And conversely as I said earlier before the match that peru team was not very good at all infact on paper we had a stronger lineup than them, albeit just. With rogic, souttar, sains and Taggart fit I think we'd have beaten them in normal time. 

Unfortunately most of our fans are ignorant and assumptive ... "oh peru finished 5th in south America, oh they must be better than us" without even looking at the fucking team sheet. 

Their best player is a 32 yr old Italian playing in serie b, 4 of their players play MLS and 2 in Sweden. I didn't see anyone in their side coming off a europa league final. 


Time to drop the inferiorty complex guys.. after all, this same group of players had a world record just 1 yr ago. 

I'm shocked Australia qualified (but very happy they did).

To be honest, I completely wrote off the Socceroos, and I assumed Peru would beat the Socceroos easily, I didn't even bother to get up to watch the game I was so pessimistic.

When I woke up this morning, I by accident, stumbled across the ABC news website and I couldn't believe what I was reading, but well done to the Socceroos, they played their guts out, and proved that they can handle pressure. And like many here, I too wrote off Graham Arnold, but he did it under very difficult circumstances (COVID).

Obviously, it would have been preferable for the Socceroos to have qualified automatically by finishing in the top two, but it wasn't to be, however qualifying the hard way, does build character in a team.

Australia is a tough group ie. France, Denmark and Tunisia, but they have nothing to lose, and go in as underdogs.