Socceroos International Friendly - Socceroos V Argentina

[giggler99]

Up against the World Cup champions in a friendly match which will be played in China. Another opportunity to impress and blood some new players toward the road to the Asian Cup.

International Friendly

Australia V Argentina

When:
Thursday 15th June 2023
10.00pm AEST 9:30pm CST, 8:00pm WST

Where:
The Workers’ Stadium, Beijing, China

Broadcast:
Live and free on Network 10 (check local guides) streamed on Paramount Plus

Squad:​

Name	Current Club, Country	‘A’ Caps (Goals)	Junior Club (Member Federation/Country)
Nathaniel ATKINSON	Heart of Midlothian FC, Scotland	6 (0)	Riverside Olympic FC / Football Tasmania
Keanu BACCUS	St Mirren FC, Scotland	5 (0)	Parklea FC / Football New South Wales
Brandon BORRELLO	Western Sydney Wanderers FC, Australia	6 (1)	Modbury Jets SC / Football South Australia
Jordan BOS	Melbourne City FC, Australia	1 (0)	Hoppers Crossing SC / Football Victoria
Alessandro CIRCATI	Parma Calcio 1913, Italy	(0)	Perth Soccer Club / Football West
Cameron DEVLIN	Heart of Midlothian FC, Scotland	2 (0)	Sutherland Sharks FC / Football New South Wales
Mitchell DUKE	Fagiano Okayama, Japan	26 (9)	Liverpool Rangers SC / Football New South Wales
Joe GAUCI (Gk)	Adelaide United FC, Australia	1 (0)	Cumberland United FC / Football South Australia
Denis GENREAU	Toulouse FC, France	2 (0)	Brighton SC / Football Victoria
Thomas GLOVER (Gk)	Melbourne City FC, Australia	(0)	Menai Hawks / Football New South Wales
Ajdin HRUSTIC	Hellas Verona FC, Italy	23 (3)	Heatherton United SC / Football Victoria
Joel KING	Odense Boldklub, Denmark on loan to Sydney FC, Australia	4 (0)	Shellharbour Junior FC / Football New South Wales
Mathew LECKIE	Melbourne City FC, Australia	77 (14)	Brimbank Stallions FC / Football Victoria
Jamie MACLAREN	Melbourne City FC, Australia	29 (8)	Green Gully SC / Football Victoria
Riley MCGREE	Middlesbrough FC, England	16 (1)	Gawler Eagles FC / Football South Australia
Connor METCALFE	FC St. Pauli, Germany	7 (0)	South Cardiff FC / Northern NSW Football
Aiden O’NEILL	Melbourne City FC, Australia	2 (0)	University of Queensland Football Club (Formerly Kenmore FC) / Football Queensland
Alexander ROBERTSON	Manchester City FC, England	1 (0)	Pagewood Botany FC / Football New South Wales
Kye ROWLES	Heart of Midlothian FC, Scotland	9 (0)	Palm Beach SC / Football Queensland
Mathew RYAN (Gk) (Cpt)	AZ Alkmaar, Netherland	80 (0)	Blacktown City FC / Football New South Wales
Gianni STENSNESS	Viking FK, Norway	2 (0)	Pittwater RSL FC / Collaroy Cromer SC / Football NSW
Harry SOUTTAR	Leicester City FC, England	15 (6)	Brechin City Boys Club (Scotland)
Ryan STRAIN	St Mirren FC, Scotland	1 (0)	Aston Villa FC (UK)

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[Jeremias]

Very inexperienced squad.

The result doesn't mean much but it's a great opportunity for a lot of these younger guys in particular. Not expecting a full strength Argentina but regardless it's going to have a number of WC winners and testing yourself against that sort of quality is worth its weight in gold.

Really keen to see Circarti in particular. What a great result that is to have him commit to us rather than Italy, hopefully there are a few more similar stories to come in the not too distant future. Says a lot about the national side and the direction in which it is heading.

 

[burge13]

No kuol?

 

[Jeremias]

No kuol?

No - he's in France with the U23s.

 

[Hamingja]

Only 2 players with more than 30 caps!

Good to see Hrustic back

No real genuine competition for Ryan, he is going to end up Australia's most capped player most likely, 30 more to knock off Schwarzer

 

[Zidane98]

Only 2 players with more than 30 caps!

Good to see Hrustic back

No real genuine competition for Ryan, he is going to end up Australia's most capped player most likely, 30 more to knock off Schwarzer

Gauci will be the one.

 

[foxdog50]

Gauci will be the one.

Whats the chances he heads overseas next season?

 

[gaskin]

Whats the chances he heads overseas next season?

Pretty high, IMO. If he doesn't get a move this window then he definitely will next year.

 

[foxdog50]

Pretty high, IMO. If he doesn't get a move this window then he definitely will next year.

I would hope he moves this transfer window...
Glover is another one I'd hope gets a transfer

 

[gaskin]

I would hope he moves this transfer window...
Glover is another one I'd hope gets a transfer

Glover has gone to Europe. City announced a few days ago that he and O'Neil were heading overseas but I don't think we know yet where Glover is going.

 

[Chetan Gupta]

Socceroos parked the bus against Argentina in WC. In friendly game they can attack more. In 90th minute they will follow Messi to get his shirt!

 

[Sippa]

I know Duke had an ok WC but surely for us to grow we gotta be trialling someone other than him or mclaren for that matter .. in friendlies..

 

[Fabab]

Messi !

 

[Zidane98]

I know Duke had an ok WC but surely for us to grow we gotta be trialling someone other than him or mclaren for that matter .. in friendlies..

Asian Cup 24 will be end of the line for the likes of him, Leckie etc.

 

[ams4crows]

Leckie needs to be benched immediately time to move on from him

 

[jhong]

I know Duke had an ok WC but surely for us to grow we gotta be trialling someone other than him or mclaren for that matter .. in friendlies..

Bit hard when olyroos and U-18s are also playing at the same time . Hopefully some youngsters will emerge and force their way in

 

[AJ_2000]

Interesting line up. Limited options up front, but its broken a few times for us where we haven't been able to capitalise as we haven't been super clean, or goals at the WC came of pushing the paved and striking on sight regret than trim b to created a better chance

 

[AJ_2000]

Bit hard when olyroos and U-18s are also playing at the same time . Hopefully some youngsters will emerge and force their way in

And selection had been focussed on getting more passing time in to the youth on their tours.

 

[jhong]

Nearly

 

[Zidane98]

typeclub must be loving the Chinese crowd going nuts over Messi every time he touches the ball...

 

[Jeremias]

Bos looking really good at left back.

Should be a regular at this level for many years to come.

 

[Zidane98]

Bos looking really good at left back.

Should be a regular at this level for many years to come.

I reckon he'll go to the very top. Ideal Robertson successor for Liverpool in 3 years time.

 

[nobbyiscool]

We actually dominated that half - until we got to their 16 yard box. There's no way we should be down here.

 

[AJ_2000]

Aside from a few cluck ups, including the first goal, we've been pretty comfortable. Bos is getting off the chain (clearly have done the scouting on him and his desire to turn inside) and Duke was unlock got to score.

We've come along way in a short time under arnold. Normally we'd be overwhelmed against a superior opponent, but I qatar and here we look capable

 

[jhong]

Our lack of a class striker stands out . Still feels like Argentina can turn it on if they want to , but now just content to go at 75%.