Australian Soccer Thread (A-League/FFA Cup/Socceroos/Matildas) (Part 2)

Flicked over to it at around the 30 minute mark. It’s like watching an AFL side play against an U14 side.

And I’m not even sure we’re playing overly well.

Have been watching and we have been pretty ordinary but Bangladesh are absolute minnows. They are almost the worst ranked side in the world and many federation clubs over here would beat them

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Lol, McLaren about a meter offside, goal allowed to stand.

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Lol bunch of hooliganz must’ve ripped a seat out. One of them was holding it up and singing

Refs from Uzbekistan.
Why no VAR?

pretty sick that the tillies now have a men’s side

-edit- and jason akermanis plays for them?

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Do we not have an actual penalty taker in the squad?

my 7 year old daughter literally walked into the room and said “are you watching boy matildas”

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given the opposition hard to take much out of that but encouraging signs from Boss, miller and metcalfe. all look really powerful and mature on the ball and provide the quality in wide areas we’ve lacked for a while.

screw Arnold for not playing Nestory though. honestly, he has to be involved in this campaign IMO.

This is how I shall refer to them from now on.

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Colombia beat Brazil 2-1 and Uruguay bat Argentina 2-0

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I thought the previous winner went in automatically. So why do Argentina need qualifiers?

Just keeping their eye in?

given about 75 teams qualify this time around i think they’ll be ok

south america get 6 spots and a 7th has to qualify through a further play off. that’s up from 4+1 for the last WC

Yep, with only 10 nations you have to be pretty stiff to miss out now

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I am waiting for Venezuela to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.

I get it’s a sort of a quality thing, but it’s rubbish that many get in from one confederation with so few total teams.

At least they changed the final format back to 4 team groups.

I missed this one from Metcalfe a couple of months ago

It’s interesting to consider what our best 11 could look like in 3 years time. I think Arnold p should be looking to get Nestory in asap.

Miller --Souter – Rowles – Bos
--------O’Neill – metcalf-----
----Nestory --Mcgree-- kuol----
---------------Yengi---------------