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

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Only 4 minutes, what a joke.

Saudi are a disgrace to Football with their shitty time wasting tactics, can't wait to see them get smashed 8-0 by Germany again.
They're in. That what matters. Scrap through, who cares how.

While Ange/Australia want to play beautiful football out the back and come 3rd..
 

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Extra games can't hurt, we get an extra 4 now, compared to 3 at a WC.
If we are to make it playing these extra games could only be beneficial, sort out a few issues hopefully.
 

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What a ******* nothing campaign. WC Should've already been locked in. What a waste.
That team against Japan. What was that?!
Then to draw with Thailand away. UAE away. Iraq too. Goddamn it. Just play normal style, attack pass and move. Who cares about 70% possession when it's all for nothing.
 

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Extra games can't hurt, we get an extra 4 now, compared to 3 at a WC.
If we are to make it playing these extra games could only be beneficial, sort out a few issues hopefully.
Goddamn, if Ange persists (if he doesn't lose his job that is) with the freaking back 3, then we're in big trouble. Why tinker and change during a WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION CAMPAIGN?! Just do it in the ConFeds. Or friendlies. But no.
 

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When did this fascination with managers using a back 3 happen? Everton & Arsenal have tried and failed with it, Australia is disgusting with it.

I just don't ever see it work and yet managers continue to use it?
 

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So long Ange.

To not qualify automatically with only 1 loss shows how poor we have been. No killer instinct.
Two up front. Have to be. We struggled so much with just Juric alone. And no more Jedinak/Milligan. Time for them to retire. They slow things down
 

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When did this fascination with managers using a back 3 happen? Everton & Arsenal have tried and failed with it, Australia is disgusting with it.

I just don't ever see it work and yet managers continue to use it?
Because Conte made it work.

A guy who has always made it work. What a shock that it doesn't translate when other managers don't use it.

Bizarre tactics from Ange.
 

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Load of shit Saudi Arabia got to play Japan when it meant nothing to them.
why is it a load of shit? There were 9 other matches in this round of qualifiers to be in control of their destiny, like Japan were.

Japan and Saudia Arabia got 6 points out of Thailand too. Thailand got 2 points out of this whole 3rd round campaign....1 of them off AUS.

Frankly, Ange has tried to play wonderball with a bunch of plodders and crazy starting XI selections. And the same old problems exist with scoring goals. The shoe-horning of players into wingbacks (Gersbach is the only recognised one) has been a massive failure, as has the insistence to play out from the back at all costs.

He needs a game plan that suits the personnel.
 
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