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Nah Grella was good, didn't have a graet one though. Gave away the ball alot. Neill's a gun. Ithink Skoko and Culina were really dominant in midfield though. Emerton also had a pretty good game as well as Chipperfield, dominated Greece down the flanks.broncoman said:pretty sound performance
Kalac looked a bit unsure at times which is a worry, the highlght for me was the fact the back guys really all did their job perfectly, Grella an Neill were our best and everyone else just played their bit. Viduka showed signs of his top form, easily beating defenders with his strength at times...
Theres a lot to take out of the game but Holland will be a massive test...
Watched some of the game and he does like playing the dangerous ball in his own half, nearly cost the Australians on a few occasions.Cloete said:Nah Grella was good, didn't have a graet one though. Gave away the ball alot. Neill's a gun. Ithink Skoko and Culina were really dominant in midfield though. Emerton also had a pretty good game as well as Chipperfield, dominated Greece down the flanks.
Better team won pretty comfortably really. Nice way to send them off to Germany, with 98,000 people watching the 1-0 win.
Yeah pretty much. Particularly if you saw the 2nd half. The large amounts of subs didn't help things, as Simon mentioned. Australia still should have scored a couple more though. Wilkshire's strike was very close, hit it very sweetly.TT Boy said:Watched some of the game and he does like playing the dangerous ball in his own half, nearly cost the Australians on a few occasions.
Must say from what I saw of it, it was pretty dire game mainly because Greece have to be the most boring team in International football. They have technically good players, Basinas, Stelios, Karagounis et cetera but Otto Rehhagel's team have almost become a self parody of the defensive and strong organised team of Euro 2004, completely yielded of ambition.
Also what is the point of such a game? I can understand fixtures against competent and good International teams. Teams Australia will come across in the World Cup but this game is plain stupid.broncoman said:also which bright spark decided to schedule the Leichtenstien match on June 7, bit too close to our opening game for my liking...
just gives us one extra match to get the guys used to playing together, the match itself is barely above the level of a training match but i guess physcologically it will get the team into a good frame of mind before the tournament...TT Boy said:Also what is the point of such a game? I can understand fixtures against competent and good International teams. Teams Australia will come across in the World Cup but this game is plain stupid.
...Australia to lose 2-1broncoman said:just gives us one extra match to get the guys used to playing together, the match itself is barely above the level of a training match but i guess physcologically it will get the team into a good frame of mind before the tournament...
cant see it happeningvic_orthdox said:...Australia to lose 2-1
It's a meaningless friendly isn't it?Craig said:That would be funny
(That and Marc would never let the whole CW forget about it)
and a chance to get some valuable practice in, not all countries have the chance to play their top team together 10 times a year...marc71178 said:It's a meaningless friendly isn't it?
Like all games between now and 9th June, the only things that will come out of them are injuries.
He did, but Cahill scored off the rebound, so Australia still got a goal from it.BoyBrumby said:Said on Sky News just now that Fat Mark shanked a pen too.
Impressive result, especially with ten men. It could be Oz are worth a cautious punt on making the 16, depending on what odds one can get, obv.