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swannsong wrote:I have heard that many of the Australian players were seen reading Australian newspapers before the game. It stands to reason then, that Travis Dodd's manager's comments would have distracted Australia and caused them to lose against Japan !

Add in the Vidmar factor........

Russia2018 wrote:Asia breathes a sigh of relief

More like, YOU breath a sigh of relief.

fucking carney you are fucking shit.

1-0 down and he brought on Kilkenny, why in the hell would you not put on somebody like Nathan Burns, somebody who is going to run at defenders with some pace, we had nothing to lose! In other news we need to work on is a set piece specialist, that clutch free kick was the biggest waste of excitemnet ive ever experienced. Our corners were woeful always going long we're lucky Japan just defended poorly off them and we managed to actually create some half chances.

We should have won. We were the better side in a tight and quality game.

Socceroos problems can be summed up with.

1) Our best strikers are actually midfielders. (Kewell and Cahill)

2) David Carney.

that sounds about right

after watching that game australian soccer has gone back 20years. long ball rubbish isn't going to see the socceroos very
far outside of asia even in it! poor corners every time...and start a final with emerton on the bench. nice.

njords_saga wrote:after watching that game australian soccer has gone back 20years. long ball rubbish isn't going to see the socceroos very
far outside of asia even in it! poor corners every time...and start a final with emerton on the bench. nice.

Possibly a tactic designed for this tournament....it got them to the final...

swannsong wrote:

njords_saga wrote:after watching that game australian soccer has gone back 20years. long ball rubbish isn't going to see the socceroos very
far outside of asia even in it! poor corners every time...and start a final with emerton on the bench. nice.

Possibly a tactic designed for this tournament....it got them to the final...

exactly right

but attacking forwards who can use their "tricks" to actually beat "cleanly" a player is lacking in this country.

what we have is a player that can outrun & out muscle defenders...clean dribbling skillful stuff that say..Nicky Carle can achieve...is not at our highest standard...not yet anyway.

as a spectacle, terrible match
the crowd appeared so bored they resorted to the Mexican Wave

even Blatter went home

Aussies did their best to spoil and stop the Japanese from playing their football but in the end quality won out
it was a good try from Australia, but they just werent good enough

add to this, Japan should've had 2 penalties in the first half

Russia2018 wrote:as a spectacle, terrible match
the crowd appeared so bored they resorted to the Mexican Wave

even Blatter went home

Aussies did their best to spoil and stop the Japanese from playing their football but in the end quality won out
it was a good try from Australia, but they just werent good enough

add to this, Japan should've had 2 penalties in the first half

= Valeri.....they were all over each other.
= The Big O.....ball to hand from 1 metre.

I know you're obviously loving the result....makes for good fishing.
Quality did not win out in the end...Japan did....2 good finishes and 1 went in as a result of defensive lapse in the 112th. minute.

swannsong wrote:

Russia2018 wrote:as a spectacle, terrible match
the crowd appeared so bored they resorted to the Mexican Wave

even Blatter went home

Aussies did their best to spoil and stop the Japanese from playing their football but in the end quality won out
it was a good try from Australia, but they just werent good enough

add to this, Japan should've had 2 penalties in the first half

= Valeri.....they were all over each other.
= The Big O.....ball to hand from 1 metre.

I know you're obviously loving the result....makes for good fishing.
Quality did not win out in the end...Japan did....2 good finishes and 1 went in as a result of defensive lapse in the 112th. minute.

in the end Australia could not defeat Korea or Japan
this needs to be put into perspective. i think Aussie football may have a difficult next 4 years as the quality is just not coming through any more as it did in the 90's

S Korea didnt beat Japan or Australia either.

PS - didnt think it was a bad game at all, apart from some poor finishing, both teams gave it the full throttle. Live, learn.

Heartbreak

We just cant catch a break in these big tournaments. And to make it worse we got a bus from crown caisno at 5am and while walking to our hotel the sun started rising...worst feeling!

Harry Kewell and David Carney, 2 players who if they did their jobs, Australia would have won the game.

Russia2018 wrote:

swannsong wrote:

Russia2018 wrote:as a spectacle, terrible match
the crowd appeared so bored they resorted to the Mexican Wave

even Blatter went home

Aussies did their best to spoil and stop the Japanese from playing their football but in the end quality won out
it was a good try from Australia, but they just werent good enough

add to this, Japan should've had 2 penalties in the first half

= Valeri.....they were all over each other.
= The Big O.....ball to hand from 1 metre.

I know you're obviously loving the result....makes for good fishing.
Quality did not win out in the end...Japan did....2 good finishes and 1 went in as a result of defensive lapse in the 112th. minute.

in the end Australia could not defeat Korea or Japan
this needs to be put into perspective. i think Aussie football may have a difficult next 4 years as the quality is just not coming through any more as it did in the 90's

There was very, very little separating the top three teams in this Asian Cup.

True, Australia needs to rebuild their team, but should have no trouble remaining in the top three over the next 4 years.

Russia2018 wrote:as a spectacle, terrible match
the crowd appeared so bored they resorted to the Mexican Wave

even Blatter went home

Aussies did their best to spoil and stop the Japanese from playing their football but in the end quality won out
it was a good try from Australia, but they just werent good enough

add to this, Japan should've had 2 penalties in the first half

(don't feed the troll)

Don't know which match you were watching.

In the stadium, the atmosphere was electric and appeared to be played end-to-end. Both penalties were not there. Australia dominated the chances and should have won. It had nothing to do with 'quality'. The game was won and lost on a mistake.

Russia2018 wrote: in the end Australia could not defeat Korea or Japan
this needs to be put into perspective. i think Aussie football may have a difficult next 4 years as the quality is just not coming through any more as it did in the 90's

(don't feed the troll)

Neither Korea nor Japan could defeat Australia in 90 minutes either....

BUT BUT BUT Japan couldn't beat Syria....

Kitchimo wrote: Neither Korea nor Japan could defeat Australia in 90 minutes either....

BUT BUT BUT Japan couldn't beat Syria....

Syria's obviously the best team in the Cup then, and unluckily got knocked out due to refereeing errors, amirite.

Japan beat Syria 2-1, but couldn't beat Jordan.

Oops. Either or, point's been made.

We needed Josh Kennedy for all those long diagonal crosses slung in.

ps, did anyone see that graph on FoxsportsFC tonite (Tues) of current players' ages if they made it to 2014? It ranged from 41 to most of them in the mid-thirties, to just a couple at 29 years of age. It's stating the obvious, but we need renewal!

the scary thing is, zaccheroni is targetting that japanese side to 2014, yet it was ticking along nicely with players like nagatomo, honda, kagawa, okazaki and endo, plus tulios pressence to come into the backline, things look good for the blue samurai

Nagamoto signed for Inter Milan after the tournament!