Popa basically said that Volpato won't start tomorrow but will get minutes. Just due to him being a bit behind in his fitness relative to the team.

I beg... just don't get injured, that's all that matters really. Any predictions for the Socceroos XI lineup against Switzerland?

Squad Average Age: 26.88. Though, we are considered a "young squad", relative to other countries at the WC, we are pretty standard. We honestly could've been one of the youngest teams even with a straight swap of Leckie for McGree, definitely a few older players bring the average up quite a...

Same lineup as me. Undoubtedly our highest potential lineup.

Lot of people talking about us losing to Turkey and beating the US. I actually feel the opposite. I think we can get a result against Turkey, whether it's a draw or win. It just seems like a game we somehow win. I think we will lose to the US. I just don't think we will out-luck them. This...

I swear if I'm still watching Martin Boyle in 2030.......

Popa also said that he expects to give as many players as possible minutes against Switzerland as he did against Mexico just so everyone is available for selection and prepared against Turkey. Shows, we can't really look into the starting XI or rotation too much in these two friendlies.

Popa said "there's no way Leckie would've been selected if he didn't come to this camp early". So it seems like its all about fitness for Leckie and that game yesterday was just testing his fitness. I don't expect him to get much game-time at all at the World Cup now with these comments.

If Irankunda didn't exist then Boyle would be in this squad... The point is, Volpato wants to play for Australia and is good enough to make the squad automatically, that isn't in question. Boyle still had every chance to make the squad. He isn't exactly fighting the toughest competition on the...

In the end, a younger squad is our best squad and that's proven by this World Cup squad. There are only a few players who are 30+ that are actually within the rotation. 12/26 players are born between 2000-2008 and 7-8 of those players are probable starters. A further 8 players are born between...

It isn't Volpato over Boyle. Volpato went to the top of the hierarchy. Boyle was fighting against Velupillay, Leckie and Mabil most likely and Popa had his reasons to choose those three over Boyle.

No, Football Australia said it will be uploaded on Youtube later on.

Can't wait for the reporters to ask the most redundant questions for 45 minutes. "Tony, what do you think this World Cup means for Aziz Behich".... ffs

Has a Socceroos press-conference ever been on-time?

Well, he said in the press-conference he used yesterday to get minutes into a player like Leckie's legs and clearly he wasn't good enough. I don't think Popa is that bad of a coach to not straight swap Volpato/Irankunda for Leckie. I think that's a guarantee. Metcalfe is definitely arguable...

I don't think that means that. Popa yesterday even agreed that Leckie looked physically not up to it in the first-half and complained that in the final-third we kept giving the ball away in the half-spaces i.e Metcalfe and Leckie. I think Volpato will definitely start at some point whether it's...

Irankunda should be playing 90 minutes each game. It's like 6-7 days between each game so he has enough time to recover. In terms of fitness he has played more minutes than 90% of the squad this past season. Irankunda and Toure should both start and if you really need to once Toure goes off...

This is still the best team IMO... Please just give us this team against Switzerland, try it out. We can't really make judgements on the squad until we actually see the best team play.

Everyone on reddit is arguing over the players on the fringes of this squad like Boyle, Leckie, Velupillay, Beach, Gauci etc etc. None of that matters. All that matters is the starters are all very good and are all obvious to start and that their backups are just as obvious as well. The final...

USA are captaining Tim Ream, to the dismay of the USMNT fans, he is old and slow and an offence of Volpato, Irankunda, Bos and Toure can really hurt this USMNT defence. Pulisic performed better today, but he is been pretty poor for the USMNT and at club level for a while now. In big moments...