That game reminded me a lot of Iran 1997. Complete dominance without completing the job. Juric even played the role of Aurelio Vidmar for the night.
The body language of Ange from the last two games suggests to me he is almost broken. We won't have time to parachute a Guus in this time. He had plenty of credits in the bank after Asian Cup but they expired tonight. The insistence on playing short out of the back is simply insane. Not even the top teams do it on every single occasion, let alone a nation as technically mediocre as us.
On the positives, Mooy was great, I thought Leckie was actually Ok, and Gerbasch a huge upgrade on Brad Smith (how did Smith start against Japan again?)
Big night ahead with the other group even tighter than ours.