JS96 said:

If Souttar just hits it lower... Damn. Gutted. Ryan sometimes stays in the middle and Salah shot there.

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Imagine how much worse it’d be if the young kid had actually lost the match for us.

erogenouszone said:

Yeah he has an angry expression.

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He’s so polite but you can tell he’s fuming

erogenouszone said:

Milligan looks pissed like the rest of us. Measuring his words but message is clear. Popa ball sucks

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Good, I hope the media absolutely crucifies Popa. Ange got so much flak for his wild tactical decisions but at least he had the pedigree and proven success, meanwhile Popa is a dinosaur still living off 2014. I'd love for someone like Milligan to be our next coach, he'd be near the top of my list if we're looking at Aussie coaches.

mkxx said:

I love Ange but i can see if Ange coaching this team we wouldnt win a game. It would be like Canada in the last WC that attacking any teams and played pretty well but got 0 point.

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Yeah Ange would run this team into the ground.

Both Ange & Poppa suffer from the same issue, very limited game-state awareness and preparedness.

McZero said:

Soutar and Herrington had great games. Penalties is a rubbish way to go out, so be it, no recriminations on the players. Thought we couldn't keep possession and we're too slow in our attacking buildup. Irankundu wasn't allowed to run at players being so isolated, and should have been on the wing. Toure had not enough defensive pace, beach was massive. Volparto great, ot sure why he was subbed to be honest.

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Agreed

I have no issues with the players performances - they just do what they’re told to essentially - it’s a lot of decisions that just don’t add up.

This game was another notch on the Popovic ‘I do things because why not’ belt.

Honestly - he got lucky with the way he set up against Turkey. They were diabolical, and Popovic has let it get to his head that it was his tactical surprises that caused it. So despite playing with attacking potency in that game, has now gone the next 3 games without playing that same front 3.

He thinks that he is a tactical master ever since then - and the change for Ryan proves it. Not because it was a keeper change, but because it was Ryan. If he brought Izzo on, I would have maybe understood a little bit - but like someone said earlier - there’s info on Ryan. Ryan was the one Arnie pulled off against Peru and made that tactic work. It’s like he just wanted to copy Arnie to prove himself as a tactical master.

Arnie looks a lot better in all of this in hindsight. Arnie gets shat in because he had his success with Sydney. That’s it. Same thing happened to Corica, and now hear his plaudits at Auckland. It was time for Arnie to move on though, but Popovic should be gone if he doesn’t make the final of the Asian Cup.

I don't care how composed and calm Herrington is. The coaching staff and the senior players should step in and say no man, let someone else take this on.

Failure from our leadership there. He's never been in this pressure before you can't put that on him.

what I want to see now is Popovic held to account

mkxx said:

I love Ange but i can see if Ange coaching this team we wouldnt win a game. It would be like Canada in the last WC that attacking any teams and played pretty well but got 0 point.

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Agree. Ange is not the answer. But we need someone who can open up our attacking strengths. Bos, Volpato, Hrustik, Irukunda and Metcalfe are at least as good as Egypt’s attack … yet we didn’t show it.

mkxx said:

I love Ange but i can see if Ange coaching this team we wouldnt win a game. It would be like Canada in the last WC that attacking any teams and played pretty well but got 0 point.

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I disagree. We’ve got a great group of attacking players that he could use.

With the players we had, we underperformed this WC, but within Popa's system it's as good as it gets.

I wish we had a sports media as insane as other countries. The fanatical ones would tear shreds off Popavic, here they just fucking tip-toe around it and are too gutless to call it what it is, pathetic.

Socceroofan4life said:

I don't care how composed and calm Herrington is. The coaching staff and the senior players should step in and say no man, let someone else take this on.

Failure from our leadership there. He's never been in this pressure before you can't put that on him.

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I know everyone will protect him, want to lay off him and talk about how other players should put their hand up, but his penalty was atrocious.

The coaches should have some idea of who can strike the ball and who can’t. It’s like if Okon stepped up, everyone knows that’s not his game. I knew Herrington would miss as soon as I saw him.

Toure, Aziz, Hrusitc were there.

Melbourne Victory chose not to renew Popovic's contract and he gets the NT job. Go figure

melbcityguy said:

I wish we had a sports media as insane as other countries. The fanatical ones would tear shreds off Popavic, here they just fucking tip-toe around it and are too gutless to call it what it is, pathetic.

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Instead a tiny but sadly vocal subset of our fans will probably send Harry Souttar and Lucas Herrington death threats.

Every man and his dog knows Poppa set us up to hang on for dear life.

It was fucking shit.

I’d rather lose the way we did to Argentina than this backs-to-wall defending in the 6-yard box crap.

We overhauled the national curriculum for this??

Useless. Shocking game. I wish Popovic would resign

Harvey Birdman said:

Media focus may be on Souttar’s miss …it wasn’t a great pen … but he was immense this tournament, doubtful we would have got any points without him.

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Shit happens in penalty shootouts so that doesn't bother me as such. More the order of takers, the stupid fucking keeper swap & the general 5-4-1 Popa ball rubbish.

no one stepped up either of the experience lads played a part