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

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would rather us go through the qualifiers, win against Syria, and then play the 4th place central american team. Probably USA. Watch Pulisic and Dempsey tear us a new one. And realise we shouldn't be there
 

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Oh sorry, which other players did we have available who could score? Australia has always had a massive issue finding strikers. Even a great player like Viduka was useless in internationals.
Surely there was soemone who could kick a goal. We seem to be able in the A-League.
Im sure one of them could of.
Viduka was more a hold up man than a goal scoring machine when wearing the G&G.

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They should have been defending after they went up 2-1 as there wasn't enough time to score two goals, and the third goal meant nothing.
Would the Socceroos have gone through on level goal difference with Saudi Arabia? If not, they should have been defending after going 1-0 up.
 

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Lol.

If we drew, Saudis would only need a draw to progress, and you're saying that means nothing?
WTF are you going on about? We needed to win by 5 or 6 goals to seal our spot. 1 goal against means nothing when we need to score many goals. We should have never been in a position to draw if the players could score.
 

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Surely there was soemone who could kick a goal. We seem to be able in the A-League.
Im sure one of them could of.
Viduka was more a hold up man than a goal scoring machine when wearing the G&G.

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Which has been the problem with previous teams. We usually only played one striker and they'd usually have to wait for help when going forward.
 

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WTF are you going on about? We needed to win by 5 or 6 goals to seal our spot. 1 goal against means nothing when we need to score many goals. We should have never been in a position to draw if the players could score.
Are you delusional or something?
A win puts us 3 points ahead.
A draw puts us 1 point ahead.

What is it about that you don't understand?
 

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If we go through the playoffs the Central American team will kill us. USA or Honduras would both destroy us; both have good attacking players. We are severely lacking in that area at the moment.

It was so so dumb to keep attacking so hard after we went up 1-0 and then 2-1. We had to go up by 4 or more for the goal difference to make a difference and were never going to score that many in 10 minutes. Unbelievably stupid from Ange and nearly paid the price.

We had about a million shots but very few of quality.
 
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