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watched Australia v germany 2010
first time I watched it since it was quite painful at the time
Watching it without emotions I feel quite differently about it. I've seen a lot of matches between Australia and the 6 world powerhouses italy, germany france spain, brazil and argentina. Most are pretty ugly in terms of the gulf in class, except for England in 2003. I actually think this was mostly pretty good up until the very harsh red card
both goals conceded were pretty poor with schwarzer making a mistake for both and there being no pressure on the cross for the 2nd. We were pretty good at passing our way out of trouble, showing a lot of composure and culina was great at opening passing lanes. We also threatened up front a bit, though were certainly the weaker team.
Against those 6 powerhouses, I would say the only 2 performances from us which were better were brazil 2006, france 2018 and Argentina 2022. I am missing some of our confederation cup games (that I'd love to get!)
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