Socceroos vs Turkey 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺🇹🇷
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Mathew Ryan23 of 23 XIs · 100%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 20 more
Alessandro Circati23 of 23 XIs · 100%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 20 more
Jackson Irvine23 of 23 XIs · 100%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 20 more
Jordan Bos23 of 23 XIs · 100%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 20 more
Mohamed Touré23 of 23 XIs · 100%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 20 more
Harry Souttar22 of 23 XIs · 96%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 19 more
Nestory Irankunda21 of 23 XIs · 91%Voters: Herringbone, JS96, melbcityguy, and 18 more
Cristian Volpato21 of 23 XIs · 91%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, melbcityguy, and 18 more
Jacob Italiano18 of 23 XIs · 78%Voters: Bbouy, grazorblade, Herringbone, and 15 more
Cameron Burgess16 of 23 XIs · 70%Voters: Herringbone, JS96, Mr Cleansheets, and 13 more
Cameron Devlin13 of 23 XIs · 57%Voters: JS96, melbcityguy, Mr Cleansheets, and 10 more
Paul Okon-Engstler8 of 23 XIs · 35%Voters: Bbouy, grazorblade, melbcityguy, and 5 more
Lucas Herrington6 of 23 XIs · 26%Voters: Bbouy, grazorblade, HonestSpursFan, and 3 more
Connor Metcalfe5 of 23 XIs · 22%Voters: grazorblade, Herringbone, JS96, and 2 more
Jason Geria3 of 23 XIs · 13%Voters: Mr Cleansheets, TJMitchell, vanlassen
Ajdin Hrustic2 of 23 XIs · 9%Voters: JS96, Anonymous member
Milos Degenek1 of 23 XIs · 4%Voters: patjennings
Kai Trewin1 of 23 XIs · 4%Voters: rebelliousfeminist974
Aiden O'Neill1 of 23 XIs · 4%Voters: mikoz09
melbcityguy
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That's where Brad Smith is
DandyCasey
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Trying to prepare the nerves and expect the worst (us attempting to repel wave after wave of attack). Not sure I am ready.
Cunningstunt
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The comments out of the Turkish players might grate, but they are pretty accurate. They have a few injury question marks, but their top players are elite. Would not be surprising for them to make a deep run.
Turkey will control the match. My prediction is for Popa to go for experience for this match. Burgess, Leckie, Metcalfe, O'Neill. A draw would be an exceptional result.
90 minutes of haramball and drinks breaks to come...
Turkey will control the match. My prediction is for Popa to go for experience for this match. Burgess, Leckie, Metcalfe, O'Neill. A draw would be an exceptional result.
90 minutes of haramball and drinks breaks to come...
jas88
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Please can we win a foul just outside the box haha
Roar92_
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I can see him pulling something out of the bag. Whether it’s enough, I’m not sure.
Man, I remember straight after the 2022 World Cup thinking about the 2026 World Cup and players like Circati, Bos, Irankunda, Volpato and Toure performing for us. I had Robertson in mind as well. Glad to see that most of them are playing for us and most will start as well. Feels like the first time we are really here to heavily showcase our young talent to the world.
NicCarBel
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Did anyone see/hear the interview on a Perth radio station with someone from Swinburne FC who have forfeited their reserve grade game I think it was in Melbourne because FV couldn’t reschedule it away from 2pm today? Epitome of small minded AFL
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I didn't see or hear the interview but Football360 covered the story and it appeared in my feed.
socceroosmad
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Shock selection - Souttar benched!!
(Oh sorry thought this was Scotland thread
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(Oh sorry thought this was Scotland thread
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Carn the Socceroos!
Dan_The_Red
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Lineup should be out soon. Lets fucking GOOOOO!!
DandyCasey
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The Scots are boring me.... good mental preparation for Popa-ball!Shock selection - Souttar benched!!
(Oh sorry thought this was Scotland thread
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Morning lads from england,
not gonna lie, kind of terrified, our gallipoli 2.0 haha
24 minutes still starting xi
Bit of hopium: scotlands struggles v haiti seems to show what a lack of world cup experience can do to a country.
not gonna lie, kind of terrified, our gallipoli 2.0 haha
24 minutes still starting xi
Bit of hopium: scotlands struggles v haiti seems to show what a lack of world cup experience can do to a country.