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

Decentric said:
I agree, except all of us viewing at our watching venue thought he gave far too many decisions re fouls in Turkey’s favour.

Except we did quite well with goal kicks in our favour, which could have been corners to them.

Wonder what our experienced refs Muz, NicCarBel and Paul01 thought?
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I did comment that to my friend while watching. A lot of little ones went Turkey's way.
 
I loved how composed we looked when Irvine and Behich came on. All that experience and leadership. Yengi looked to love it out there. Velupillay didn't do too much but I'll have to watch again. Geria covered his area wonderfully.
 
Just shouted 'Souttar you beast' every time he did something good.
 
Socceroofan4life said:
And man it feels GOOD to have some options off the bench. Irvine and Behich coming on in that final stint? I felt so relieved knowing we had such experienced and great servants of the socceroos to see out the match and help calm down the team.

We still have Volpato who will definitely get minutes as we try to balance out the players and keep legs fresh. What a great option to have last minute. Herrington incase one of our big three have to go off. Great option. Big target man Yengi. We got Cammy Devlin ready. Leckie and Mabil, good options to have as well for later and big game experience.

Man i am just buzzing. On top of the world. Feel like we really can go for a great run.

And the best part? As Tony said in his post match presser. This team is NOWHERE near it's ceiling. That is 4 to 8 years away!
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I'm not putting any limits on what this team might achieve in this tournament. Who ever thought Leicester could win the EPL, after all. The confidence will be surging through the team and infecting the whole squad, with the younger players benefitting most. With the power of belief, dragons can be slayed. A win over the U.S. would be huge. I really hope Toure is the one who scores next. I think he needs it.
 
verrelli said:
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.
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Indeed. Pathetic and baseless blame-shifting by Guler.
 
Quicky said:
Do a shot instead and you'd be in hospital with alcohol poisoning. Bottoms up.
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Stomach stress from kick off had me with zero appetite. Irankunda calmed it a bit but potentially losing the lead got immensely stressful.

When Metcalfe score I was going mental and then looked at the clock and felt it was really that close. Final 15 was stressful but from around 85 we seemed assured.
 
JS96 said:
Stomach stress from kick off had me with zero appetite. Irankunda calmed it a bit but potentially losing the lead got immensely stressful.

When Metcalfe score I was going mental and then looked at the clock and felt it was really that close. Final 15 was stressful but from around 85 we seemed assured.
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A had a BBQ at a mates and he was asking me why I wasn't eating more. I had no appetite.
 
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