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

[Mr Cleansheets]

He gets bread sent from Brussels to put vegemite on.

I'm sure he'd prefer something from Bombay...

 

[patjennings]

I wonder how much Colin Hay makes every time Land Downunder gets played at a stadium?

He undersold Harry Souttar 'He was six-foot-four and full of muscle' - Harry is six-foot-six and full of muscle

 

[Decentric]

If iran is irankundas nickname, it explains why the us government thought iran had weapons of mass destruction

His full name is long to write!

 

[Decentric]

I actually thought turkeys press was the weakest we have faced in 2 years, full of holes

They did Press/ Squeese very well most of the time, particularly in their attack and midfield when we regained the ball.

They forced our players to play more quickly than they were comfortable with , which forced Roo errors.

Thankfully, they made a few mistakes though.

 

[Decentric]

When we play backwards facing football teams press successfully against us because we never force them to defend their own half.

Huge difference against Turkey where we did turn to face forwards - both with vision and intent.

I think Turkey expected the first tactic and got messed up when we looked past their press often enough to make them have to cover their backdoor properly.

Force 3 to 5 players into a defensive mindset and you are not streaming forward with 9 players any more.

Turkey were not at fault for not succeeding in their press - we worked past the press for once and played positive football on the counter rather than simply pissing round the backline with a long boot at the end.

Credit to Popa for that.

Some good points here, RIMB, but Turkey were successful at forcing our players to frequently receive without having the body shape to play forwards on numerous occasions when we regained the ball (Attacking Transition) in the defensive half.

Credit to Turkey.

There was intent by the Roos to play forwards, but the Full Pressing and intensive Squeezing by the Turks forced us to play backwards or sideways.

Roos on the ball needed more time and space, and, although difficult not enough Roos were getting into positions quickly enough to open viable passing lanes to support the Aus ball carrier.