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Socceroos vs Turkey 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺🇹🇷

Toebash said:
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I think this is what’s being referred to.

I struggle to comprehend how Australia (a fucking pot 2 nation) winning against Türkiye (a euro playoff qualifier) is a bigger upset than Cameroon beating Brazil or Saudi Arabia beating Argentina.
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It is an example of a time when stats are not as meaningful as other value judgements.

Our +62 stat puts us as the fifth highest - but the emotional context of other games is so much greater.

I have no idea how they determine the figure, but it looks like the 2 goal difference adds more value given all the top results are 2 goal floggings and the lower ones are the cheeky one goal snatches.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
How the hell can they know how old viewers are? There were about 30 of us gathered at a bbq, ages from 5ish to one old pops of 70.
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They probably ask viewers for their age group when carrying out their surveys in addition to whether they purchase groceries to facilitate the grocery shoppers' and associated age range demographic reporting.
 
LFC said:
a friggin mad great shock eh ! none of us expected getting that first goal let alone the 2nd, unbelievable.
Winners beers taste best hahaha
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It was friggin mad, just going off my head when those goals went in, it wasn't pretty but hey the fight was there & Beach, wow, what a surprise call by Poppa & double WOW what a match he had.
 
jas88 said:
Been reading somewhere they said 5th biggest upset of all time at a world cup. Huge.
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Doubt it.

The Turks hadn’t played at a WC for 5 WCs.

They got their game plan wrong and underestimated a battle hardened team, more tactically astute than them.

Aus also dominated Turkey in 1v1s. All over the pitch.

World rankings they are FIFA 22 ish and Aus are 27.

Looking at their WCQs, Turkey beat virtually nobody of any repute to qualify. They are a nation of chronic underachievers, who have immense talent.

Turkey played 8 games to qualify, with 4 games against Georgia and Bulgaria.

Aus played 18-20 WCQs.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Please keep the match thread on topic and related to Tony Popovic's tactical masterclass for the Socceroos on opening day of our World Cup campaign, in addition to the process of many of us eating our words after saying how Turkey were going to run riot round our midfield and how we were supposedly cooked in the absence of Mathew Ryan and Jackson Irvine in the starting lineup.
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Well said !

Some nameless posters, inadvertently derail threads.
 
Decentric said:
Doubt it.

The Turks hadn’t played at a WC for 5 WCs.

They got their game plan wrong and underestimated a battle hardened team, more tactically astute than them.

Aus also dominated Turkey in 1v1s. All over the pitch.

World rankings they are FIFA 22 ish and Aus are 27.

Looking at their WCQs, Turkey beat virtually nobody of any repute to qualify. They are a nation of chronic underachievers, who have immense talent.

Turkey played 8 games to qualify, with 4 games against Georgia and Bulgaria.

Aus played 18-20 WCQs.
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TBH D - all they got wrong was not getting the ball by Beach, plain and simple, wasn't your day on the pitch.
All the other blahblah no matter - you blew it on the day when you had lions share of possession, shot here there, on target, more corners, it just wasn't your day.
Your opponent threw their body on the line, scored from 2 counters like a assassin nuff said :)
 
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