Socceroos vs Turkey 2026 World Cup match thread 🇦🇺🇹🇷

[Captain Haddock]

Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Turkish midfielder for Inter Milan): We literally dominated the match, they went 2-0 up with long balls. We were the team that deserved to win. We conceded unnecessary goals. Nothing is over yet, we have matches ahead of us.

Suffer in yer jocks

 

[grazorblade]

That’s a hot take. They’ve definitely got good depth but I rage Turkey’s forward line and midfield higher. Arda Güler and Kenan Yıldız are outstanding young players and Germany should be fuming that they didn’t manage to get the latter.

Usa showed they are fast enough to catch space behind our midblock. So their speed presents a different challenge

 

[grazorblade]

I want to support Turkiye and wish them success in their remaining games because I think the game was played in a good spirit (and I've travelled there and loved it), but the post-match comments by Guler and Calhanoglu are disrespectful. To be blaming the refs where VAR is scrutinising everything and to be saying that they were dominant glosses over the fact that this was a perfectly executed defensive master-class by Australia, where they were out-coached and we scored two very fine goals in open play. We didn't score because we were big or physical. We sliced open their defence and punished them. They'll be hurting after losing a match that 68 million people expected them to win, after a 24 year absence. But please, a little grace and respect.

Yeah fully curacao and nz presented more attacking dynamism, apart from that one guler chance and the 2 free kicks we gave away we looked pretty comfortable

 

[grazorblade]

Crazy stat. If my calculations are correct (and im sleep deprived) but a 2 goal margin over usa would mean australia hits its highest ever elo

Our previous record was 1879

To be fair our elo like our fifa rank was hindered by our lack of world cup appearances having to go through a very tough qualification campaign and we didnt get the chance to battle harden with a rigorous qualification campaign

Even still, getting into the top 20 with so few in the big 5 is unbelievable

 

[JS96]

That Venezuela counter goal against Turkey just makes our 2 make more sense.

 

[JS96]

Trying to think of any stat records set or broken. This isn't our longest time leading a match as we scored earlier against Tunisia.

It is the first time we've scored 2 in a game since 2014.