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Socceroos vs USA 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺 🇺🇸

mkxx said:
I ve watched many League games I d say 99% wouldnt give it. Ball and hand were too close to avoid.
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What are you talking about? You must be referring to some other incident. It was a looping ball that took an age to come down and hit the player’s fully outstretched arm. It actually didn’t didn’t hit the hand at all but it definitely hit the arm which was clearly in an unnatural position.
 
derider said:
What are you talking about? You must be referring to some other incident. It was a looping ball that took an age to come down and hit the player’s fully outstretched arm. It actually didn’t didn’t hit the hand at all but it definitely hit the arm which was clearly in an unnatural position.
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with the same arms pushing a player away from heading the ball as well
 
Dan_The_Red said:
Too close? watch the whole footage, ball was in the air for an eternity with the defender challenging with his back to the direction of the ball.
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The defender has his arms away from his body because he is in the middle of a two handed shove into Irankunda's front and the ball lands on his arm. Got to be an unnatural position and I would have thought a foul in its own right for the shoving. It is not challenging for the ball and somehow using the upper arm to protect the ball - it was just blatant pushing as he jumped. I thought that was a foul every day of the week?

In the follow up, you can also see Irankunda's shirt being pulled when he went for the spilled ball. Ref was behind the action for that part, but so clear on VAR.

They are not very astute in the VAR box, or simply had no desire to find something against the US team in that series of moments.
 
Just a couple of thoughts from me:
1. If you are going to play the same tactics as the first game, why making changes in terms of personnel after doing so well against Turkiye?
2. We were down 2-nil at half time. Do we have a more attacking plan B? Formation change, subs? This should have happened at half time in my opinion. I would have gone with a 4-2-3-1.
 
mkxx said:
Sad thing about this game is that before the game many American pundits looked down on us I was hoping some respects Sadly after this game nothing changed.
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Yep this full stop bugga the refs calls.
We were cooked from the starting line up and our guys just didn’t have much composure whatsoever the first half.
Chasing ghosts - I was saddened to see our backline with nothing like the first game but they are not to blame in the end.
1st half killed us.
Playing catch up has never been our game but least we saw but more Popa saw what he should line up next game ?! If not he’s a friggin blind man !!! And his assistants.
 
Can someone explain why Popa wasn’t happy with the non-offside call for their second goal? The offside player runs in with the scorer but doesn’t influence the play or impede the goalkeeper in any way.

On replay, I was kinda disappointed to see the goal was perfectly legitimate after all. I thought we were ripped off, but no. What were people complaining about in that instance?
 
Somebloke said:
Poppaball is a double edged sword. Worked well against the Turks when they couldn’t get past us and got frustrated. But when you concede early, he struggled to adapt until too late. Saw it too many times with Victory.
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We also need to stop seeking solace in the fact that we limit teams to "few chances". The whole point of popas style is that we sit deep and dont allow it, the double edged sword being that whilst doing this we cant get past the halfway line.

If we are being honest the only clear cut chance in the match was the Balogin break away one on one early in the 2nd half.

Yeah the goals were unfortunate but when the ball is living in that danger zone for most of the game you will buckle at some point.
 
derider said:
Can someone explain why Popa wasn’t happy with the non-offside call for their second goal? The offside player runs in with the scorer but doesn’t influence the play or impede the goalkeeper in any way.

On replay, I was kinda disappointed to see the goal was perfectly legitimate after all. I thought we were ripped off, but no. What were people complaining about in that instance?
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Mostly starts around here a couple pages back

JS96

Thread 'Socceroos vs USA 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺 🇺🇸'

With H2H being the tiebreaker we could know a lot by the end of this one. Going to be a cracking occasion.
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Sharkman84 said:
So it's safe to say Mike Grella is a racist cunt?

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How the fuck is he racist ? You are just looking to be offended.

Mike Gella is living rent free in Australians heads today. You all fell for it.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Cristian Volpato should be getting game time against the United States on Saturday because his pace will be valuable in shutting down their midfield and forward line early before they have a chance to get inside the box, convert chances into meaningful shots at goal and find the back of the net.
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I was totally disinterested in Volpato whilst he vacillated about committing to Aus.

Now he has committed, I’m thrilled. Another member off forum sent me a highlights reel. I saw none of it in the previous friendly and he underwhelmed.

In the second is half against USA I was really impressed with his close ball control and dribbling ability - in a different way from others.

Whereas Bos ( although rarely in this WC) and Iran mainly ball carry at extreme pace to beat defenders, and often need space, Volpato is effective in tighter spaces and doesn’t need space. Volpato is a huge gain for Aus! Other than Arzani and Tilio, and probably a range of the new whizz gen under 25 I can’t remember ATM, we don’t have a plethora of players with his skill set.
 
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