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Socceroos vs Paraguay 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺🇵🇾

riquelmes_laces said:
Farina was tactically naive, without any particular dogma. Although he was closer to the Venables/Ange end of the spectrum than he was in the centre.

I'd agree with the rest and what do you know our two best showings at a WC (jury still out with Poppa) align with a tactically flexible approach.
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Agreed, im not saying he was a good coach, just that his mentality was neither attacking nor defensive. I remember Viduka saying when gus hiddink came in that he had more players around him in attack. Conversely farina played a deep and slow backline, so the whole pitch was very spaced out in both defense and attack. First thing Gus did was move Emerton and chippers to the backline to improve the speed, neill from a fullback to cb, and dropped muscat. Played a higher line, with much less space between each line.
 
Robbos said:
Luongo was so great in the Asian cup 2015 & we should have build the Socceroos team around him.
Mooy, I would kill to have Mooy running around in this WC, he's as good as Bresc. If you watched the WC qualifiers against Japan pre 2022, the only player the Japanese didn't press, because they knew his 1st touch was their level.
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Was better than Bresc imo, i personally think hes our best ever midfielder along with pre injury Okon. Shame man city never tried him in their first team, i think he would have made it.
 
grazorblade said:
The 46 game season killed him. Reckon if he played buli 2 he ends up as a bundesliga regular

Wouldnt mind robbo jumping onto the continent with his body
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Around 2015 he had several offers from various top flight leagues. Buli 2 is selling him waayy too short. Should really have gone to serie A at the time instead of champ. I agree with you the long season killed him, lot less matches in serie A
 
Bunch_of_hacks said:
Was better than Bresc imo, i personally think hes our best ever midfielder along with pre injury Okon. Shame man city never tried him in their first team, i think he would have made it.
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I lurked on the Huddersfield forum when he was there. Plenty said Mooy was the best player ever to pull on their shirt.

I loved him to bits.
 
Socceroofan4life said:
That Jedinak interview is so bizarre lol.

Like.. the press in our country really isn't that bad. It's so relaxed compared to pretty much the entire footballing world. Yet time and time again our national coaches and set ups get SO annoyed by it. Like come on you gotta handle it better.
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Yeah, he seemed to go on a tangent about who was saying what and who may or may not be disappointed about not getting picked. The substance of the questions was valid. Do you think Poppa got his tactics/selections right given how poor the first half of the US game was (yet again).

I thought Irvine did a much better job of managing those types of questions and he was one person who might feel he should have started.
 
All you people talking about players needing to be rotated to give them a rest - really? The players have had 5 days between each match day, ie, a game every 6 days. This is almost a luxury for some of these players, and is pretty close to normal for the rest. I can’t see that fatigue should be a factor.
And if your reasoning is that we want to rest important players before the R32 match - we’ve got to get to the R32 match first. You take every match as it comes. Play the team to maximise the chances of getting the result against Paraguay, then worry about R32.
 
Keeper66 said:
All you people talking about players needing to be rotated to give them a rest - really? The players have had 5 days between each match day, ie, a game every 6 days.
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I think it's more of a case of the coaching staff themselves suggesting they couldn't field certain line-ups because of fitness. Doesn't ring true to me but the alternative would be they would have to admit that they did in fact get it wrong. They didn't start the two players who scored against Turkey (not to mention Mo Toure). Instead they played Leckie who came off crocked and Velupillai who I'm not sure belongs at this level. and we lost 2-0 in a game that was over by half time.
 
Punchanello said:
I think it's more of a case of the coaching staff themselves suggesting they couldn't field certain line-ups because of fitness. Doesn't ring true to me but the alternative would be they would have to admit that they did in fact get it wrong.
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yep, they are covering their backs - error of judgements. At the same time I sense the halo lacking of confidence by the staff incl Popa always treading lightly. Wish they would change their tacked just a little, more so for the squad getting into their heads we are good enough, well that’s the way I see it.
Punchanello said:
They didn't start the two players who scored against Turkey (not to mention Mo Toure). Instead they played Leckie who came off crocked and Velupillai who I'm not sure belongs at this level. and we lost 2-0 in a game that was over by half time.
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and that’s it plain and simple first 45.
Even though its been dissected - Burgess OG and the other was soft, the fact was they ran us ragged, 50/50's 2nd's we were done.
Pressed the moment we got possession we lost it.
Had us turning our backs, scrabbling to get back in shape.
They'll never admit they got it wrong.

By the way welcome Punch.
 
Is Paraguay the game that Bos shows up as an attacking force? This seems like the one game so far we could actually pin the other side back a bit. Without Almiron they don't have a first-rate playmaker so if we can keep Enciso quiet we should be able to have a good go at a pretty slow defence.

Worst case scenario will be that both teams come out to counter-attack and neither side is set up to apply consistent attacking pressure.
 
LFC said:
yep, they are covering their backs - error of judgements. At the same time I sense the halo lacking of confidence by the staff incl Popa always treading lightly. Wish they would change their tacked just a little, more so for the squad getting into their heads we are good enough, well that’s the way I see it.

and that’s it plain and simple first 45.
Even though its been dissected - Burgess OG and the other was soft, the fact was they ran us ragged, 50/50's 2nd's we were done.
Pressed the moment we got possession we lost it.
Had us turning our backs, scrabbling to get back in shape.
They'll never admit they got it wrong.

By the way welcome Punch.
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Would we expect any manager or staff to come out and explicitly say we got it wrong and had to adjust at half time? At least this time the question was put to them.
 
Punchanello said:
Is Paraguay the game that Bos shows up as an attacking force? This seems like the one game so far we could actually pin the other side back a bit. Without Almiron they don't have a first-rate playmaker so if we can keep Enciso quiet we should be able to have a good go at a pretty slow defence.

Worst case scenario will be that both teams come out to counter-attack and neither side is set up to apply consistent attacking pressure.
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their pretty slow defence held on 45+min with 10.
I highly doubt we'll be pinning them back as much as it would be a refreshing outlook by us.
I think your last sentence sums it up, a game of taking one of your opportunities or 2.
 
LFC said:
their pretty slow defence held on 45+min with 10.
I highly doubt we'll be pinning them back as much as it would be a refreshing outlook by us.
I think your last sentence sums it up, a game of taking one of your opportunities or 2.
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That's my expectation too. Seems a shame.
 
Cunningstunt said:
Would we expect any manager or staff to come out and explicitly say we got it wrong and had to adjust at half time? At least this time the question was put to them.
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nope not unexpected, just saying what would be in the back of their heads CS.
Hardly any admit fault ever - football politicians :)
 
B-mac said:
The last 10 mins of this game will be a sh!t show. That’s when you bring on our old heads who have seen it all - Behich, Irvine, Degenek types. Feel we missed a trick not playing Herrington V the USA. Personally I’d stick with Burgess for Paraguay.
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Other way round.. USA were coming onto to us meaning ww could stay in a deep block and then counter them. Speed wasnt needed for this gane style. Meanwhile paraguay will sit deep like we do then try counter. As such herringtons recovery pace to defend the counter is much more important likewise his ball playing ability. Fast defenders and skillful attackers need this game .. the opposite of the 2 matches thus far
 
Bbouy said:
Yeah that's all good, we can beat any of them. Not that we will but similar to Turkiye, we can beat any of them.

Argentina RO16 is annoying though, may be one of the teams in this tournament I can't see us upsetting in any capacity. I think France is another.
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I was going to say add to the list the Netherlands, Colombia and ... but then I remembered Spain 0 Curacao 0. Anything is possible
 
grazorblade said:
Belgium have little speed so if burgess puts the own goals away his size could be handy
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To be honest I think Burgess may just be exhausted physically and mentally. I've often heard it said that Premier League players play too many games. But there are even more games in the Champonship (46) and Cam played 90 mins of all 46 games. Never came on as a sub, never subbed off, never benched. It's a wonder he can still function at all. His body and mind will be thinking surelywe're on holiday now
 
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