Socceroos vs Mexico/Switzerland - Pre-World Cup Friendlies 2026 🇦🇺🇲🇽🇨🇭

[grazorblade]

Watching the replay carefully for the pod, to avoid spoilers I've avoided comments here haha

That chance switzerland created in the 8th minute was pretty much undefendable

 

[RIMB]

I mean wasn't hit with with any force so idk wat the issue was.
I thought they were a bit more open minded in those Scandinavian nations

I see a much greater risk than the 'damage' of this incident.

Why the fuck did Irankunda need to do it at all? It was petulant and nasty and shows he can still be riled and do something stupid that hurts the team.

Popa will have to have a quiet chat with him at the least.

 

[JRD]

generally if it's hit with force, it's a red.

Yep, just like the Turkish player that kicked it at Rivaldo's head that one time...

 

[JS96]

I see a much greater risk than the 'damage' of this incident.

Why the fuck did Irankunda need to do it at all? It was petulant and nasty and shows he can still be riled and do something stupid that hurts the team.

Popa will have to have a quiet chat with him at the least.

When we were kids our coach trained us in pulling the handbrake and turning away. We very rarely had a scrap with the other team. These players need a sport psychologist to avoid stupid shit like this.

 

[JS96]

Yep, just like the Turkish player that kicked it at Rivaldo's head that one time...

How I'd love VAR to card Rivaldo for that. Probably yellow for both then?

 

[Sutherlandbear]

I mean wasn't hit with with any force so idk wat the issue was.
I thought they were a bit more open minded in those Scandinavian nations

It is i believe, un-sportsman like conduct, a yellow every day.

 

[jimshady]

Clearly an accident. Has done nothing wrong. Is a saint. Play on

 

[Bbouy]

Going to rewatch the game soon. Feel like I was so tired and therefore braindead during the game that I missed a lot.

 

[JS96]

Clearly an accident. Has done nothing wrong. Is a saint. Play on

Can you officiate our games please?

 

[JS96]

Going to rewatch the game soon. Feel like I was so tired and therefore braindead during the game that I missed a lot.

I've got a vague memory of the first 15min of the second half so tjsgs my focus area. First half was so stop start.

 

[Mr Cleansheets]

Whether or not they ask them at press conferences isn't the issue. Your words were None of ours know anything about these aspects of football. I strongly suspect they do know something, and some of them possibly quite a lot, regardless of whether they refer to the terms at press conferences.

If you have originally said something along the lines of "you very rarely hear any of our journalists ask questions about those aspects at press conferences" I may have agreed with you. But that isn't what you stated.

I know Garby quite well and Vince R a little. They both know a LOT about football.

My issue with Oz football journalists (since Mike Cockerill - who I knew very well) is their timidity. No-one has the guts to ask the right questions any more and we have so few working journos now that the power is all with the coach and the establishment. Journos won't risk their access by probing so all we get served is banal mush.

 

[JS96]

I think people have correctly pointed out that the opposition went hard early and tired. So perhaps that's part of our plan too. We've got the conditioning and more in the tank.

The problem is going behind. It's also interesting Switzerland didn't really sit back. The staggered line for the goal was bemusing but even then we had some good territory and they missed some passes too.

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Oh ok that's fine then. They're just using the dazn platform. The game was on dazn but I wasn't sure whether I was part of my package or in the FIFA plus section.

DAZN is free by the way! They already have or have had a fair bit of women’s football on there, men’s not so much.