Socceroos 2018 WCQ THREAD-v HONDURAS FOR SPOT IN RUSSIA (Dates TBC)

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Lets be brutally honest here, we learnt nothing last night. Whilst it was nice to put a few on the board the opposition wasnt close to A League standard.
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Rogic was promising (this combined with his recent form with Celtic) and was good to see Leckie finally score again for his country
There won't be a lot of difficult tests this early on in Qualification.
Do we have any friendlies lined up soon?
 

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True, but to be fair WCQ are about results and we got exactly what we needed. Win and a large increase in GD.
No doubting that, just hard to get an idea about just how good some of the guys were.
 

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Lets be brutally honest here, we learnt nothing last night. Whilst it was nice to put a few on the board the opposition wasnt close to A League standard.
Even against poor opposition I think we learnt that Luongo, Rogic and Mooy ar\e all able to play together, despite playing similar positions.
 
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Even against poor opposition I think we learnt that Luongo, Rogic and Mooy ar\e all able to play together, despite playing similar positions.

The question is will they be exposed defensively against a better side? All very well to be running rings around a side when there's no pressure on you, but it could be a different story against the Japan/Koreas of the world. Bangladesh gave us a ridiculous amount of time and space, something which just won't happen all that often/

I'm more than happy to see those three work in tandem against the weaker teams, I'd just rather a bit more defensive stability in tougher games.
 

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Bailey Wright looks a good prospect, Spiranovic and Sainsbury are quality and Irvine is playing well in Scotland. We just need Curtis Good to get fit......
 

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I think we'll find this match easier than the Kyrgyzstan one. Tajikistan's form hasn't been overly good.
 

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Spiranovic in doubt with illness.
 

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