Socceroos World Cup Qualifiers Third Round - Australia V Oman/Japan

[Bleedblueandgold]

What is Japan's jersey?

 

[Fabab]

Get stuck in Australia,dont let them settle.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

This is gonna be a massive challenge!
Very glad it's in prime time.

 

[Hamingja]

Behich well out of his depth

 

[juss]

Damn. To be fair they look a class above so far.
That's crap defending though with an air swing clearance.

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Oh God that was very very poor...
Too easy for Japan.

 

[gaskin]

That sucks massive balls. They have been great so far.

 

[CakeEater]

Can we sub Timmy Cahill on yet?

 

[BluesBusiness1991]

Behich shouldn’t be playing. Cant get regular game time in Turkey.. terrible terrible defending

 

[jhong]

Lol at the defending by us so far , Japan are up for this

 

[juss]

The Japanese keeper looks a bit shaky tbh. I reckon he's vulnerable to an error

 

[Mile High Tiger]

Behich well out of his depth

Just another reason to hate him. Useless ****

 

[gaskin]

If Behich is the best left back we have, something is wrong.

 

[peternorth]

We are everyones grand final

 

[lewdogs]

We are playing quite well here but that defensive brain fade will probably cost us.

 

[juss]

Unfortunately we are never going to be good enough to play through them when they're all in the back half, and risk being hit on a turn over.

 

[Fabab]

Defence is terrible so far.

 

[jhong]

We are giving possession away far too often .

 

[AJ_2000]

This looks like pretty much any game we've played against Japan since 2007....

They press us, we turn the ball over and they're frantic on the counter attack.

We then get nervous, and dish up and the killer turnovers when under no pressure and the counter attacks are even worse.

Not much help with the ref letting play roll, as we could do with a few set pieces to get the momentum back.

Japan will sit back if we're better with the ball. If the Midfield and defenders can get a foothold we'll look better. More crap turnovers and we're digging our own grave

 

[Collingwoodity]

Really breaking down in midfield.

 

[juss]

Form is transient, but you look at the teams and the clubs the players play for, Japan are a class above us. It's showing just in the way the teams move the ball.

 

[kozi]

Expected a lot better than this.

Japan do need the W more and it sure as hell shows

 

[juss]

We need halftime to reset

 

[Collingwoodity]

Same problem we have had since the 2006 Socceroos. Our movement off the ball is sub standard.

 

[Pablito]

Unfortunately we are never going to be good enough to play through them when they're all in the back half, and risk being hit on a turn over.

I'd rather them turn it over trying to play positive football in the front half then inevitably turning it over playing hesitant and safe football in the back half.