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

[JRD]

Won't happen but after the friendlies I would go in with this:

GK: Mathew Ryan
LWB: Jordy Bos
RWB: Kai Trewin
CB: Alessandro Circati, Harry Souttar, Cameron Burgess
CM: Cameron Devlin, Jackson Irvine
Attacking mids: Nestory Irankunda, Cristian Volpato
ST: Mohamed Toure

Metcalfe, Herrington, O'Neill and Yengi look like they'll add something from the bench.

Devlin and Volpato look like excellent additions.

The commentators are waxing lyrical about Italiano. I thought he was really poor and will get punished against quality attackers.

 

[JS96]

Won't happen but after the friendlies I would go in with this:

GK: Mathew Ryan
LWB: Jordy Bos
RWB: Kai Trewin
CB: Alessandro Circati, Harry Souttar, Cameron Burgess
CM: Cameron Devlin, Jackson Irvine
Attacking mids: Nestory Irankunda, Cristian Volpato
ST: Mohamed Toure

Metcalfe, Herrington, O'Neill and Yengi look like they'll add something from the bench.

Devlin and Volpato look like excellent additions.

The commentators are waxing lyrical about Italiano. I thought he was really poor and will get punished against quality attackers.

The feel good staff at Paramount don't criticise anyone. It's devoid of true analysis.

Italiano looked OK but was very vulnerable defensively.

 

[JM47]

I'm really concerned about the O'Neill-Irvine combo. I know he wasn't great in the March friendlies in the role but with a bit more football under his belt and playing really well this morning, I'd be tempted to play Metcalfe alongside O'Neill. Can at least play a killer ball. Also means you can have all of Volpato, Irankunda and Metcalfe starting.

For me Burgess/Herrington is a flip of the coin:

‐-----------------------Ryan---------------------------
-------Circati----Souttar---LucH/CamB-----
Italiano----‐-Metcalfe---Irvine----------Bos
----------Volpato-----------------Irankunda----
-------------------------Toure-----------------------

 

[rebelliousfeminist974]

Turkey locked at 1-1 going into the half in their friendly against Venezuela.