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

booney52 said:
Yes but Italiano did very well against him as did Geria when he came on.Turkiye need to develop a tall strong and quick striker as their short spear head was been fed crosses and having to compete against tall timber.
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Agree.

Italiano jockeyed and delayed very well against him. I’ve already written that somewhere on G and G.

He was a constant menace against Aus though.
 
I’ve rewatched the first half again and noticed a few things:

- First up, Burgess was an absolute ROCK. One pass to Beach was perhaps not perfect, otherwise didn’t put a foot wrong and covered everything. I’m as excited about Herrington’s future as anyone, but it would be a massive mistake to drop Burgess, especially against McKennie and Balogun. After a full Championship season he’s in great form.

- Metcalfe played great, I owe him an apology. Would’ve liked to see him replaced by Volpato for the last 10 so Cristian is ready to make an impact in future games.

- The ball to Nessy was well planned and the 6th time someone tried to outpace their right back. Okon missed two long pass opportunities to Nessy, one to Bos, then overhit one to Bos, then passed along the ground to Nessy and it was intercepted before he went over the top to Nessy. Okon would often drop into left back to defend, I think so that both Bos and Nestor’s would be available for the counter. Okon actually needed to be more clinical and was fortunate to have that many chances. Still, dry impressive from him especially in defensive rotations and holding the ball.

- very interesting to see Circati move so far forward in attack, then Okon drop deep left to cover. Poppa certainly has detailed rotations to advance the ball.
 
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