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

[Pasquali]

 

[Pub League Champion]

Mata and Ange on the itv coverage. Tear in my eye hearing Mata talking about our a-league players.

How’d you watch itv?

 

[return_to_sender]

Just finished watching. Saw Beach on the player ratings with a 9.1. What the fuck is a 10 then?

 

[West Adelaide Hellas]

How’d you watch itv?

When there’s a will there’s a way

I have Greek tv to follow the Greek super league and it comes with additional perks.

 

[LFC]

 

[Quicky]

Drink it up

Salty tears

 

[WhatAmIWatching]

Games like that tend to reduce my life expectancy. One thing I will say, is credit to Beach for his discipline. Typically he likes to come out of the box and into the mid-field (against Wellington) but not today - he stayed primarily within the six yard box.

 

[rebelliousfeminist974]

Just finished watching. Saw Beach on the player ratings with a 9.1. What the fuck is a 10 then?

Patrick Beach would need to have had better pass and long ball accuracy in addition to those eight saves and a clean sheet for a perfect ten as he only managed 14 out of 35 accurate passes and four out of 25 accurate long balls.

 

[grazorblade]

Nicest analyst in america. The espn america analysts were super disrespectful

 

[onedaywinners...]

Where's the 'World Cup Winners!!' thread am I right!??!

Basking in this feeling for as loooooong as possible...

 

[return_to_sender]

Patrick Beach would need to have had better pass and long ball accuracy in addition to those eight saves and a clean sheet for a perfect ten as he only managed 14 out of 35 accurate passes and four out of 25 accurate long balls.

This just reeks Moneyball to me. Everyone puts all these ridiculous values on things when it's his job to keep the ball out of the net.

 

[Quicky]

Was Toure injured or just cramp?

Hard to say. Toure was on the ground during the drinks break. But he played on for a bit after before Yengi came on. I assume it wasn't serious or he'd have been subbed at the time.

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Looks like I’m gonna be a lot more active here now. I’ve been banned from r/ALeague for seven days, which will include the USA vs Socceroos game as well as the release of Matildas Abroad (Issue 33).

 

[grazorblade]

Looks like I’m gonna be a lot more active here now. I’ve been banned from r/ALeague for seven days, which will include the USA vs Socceroos game as well as the release of Matildas Abroad (Issue 33).

What happened?

 

[NicCarBel]

Anyway i can watch the rematch with sen comms from the uk? Is the a site that is vpnable

I will investigate and let you know hahaha

 

[rebelliousfeminist974]

Hard to say. Toure was on the ground during the drinks break. But he played on for a bit after before Yengi came on. I assume it wasn't serious or he'd have been subbed at the time.

I think wait and see what Popovic has to say in the lead up to next week's match regarding Mo Toure but he should hopefully be right to play against the United States.

 

[Pasquali]

 

[HonestSpursFan]

one of football's biggest underachievers

It depends. In recent years they’ve always been picked as a dark horse and fell below expectations. However, they did also write one of the greatest stories in World Cup history by finishing third in 2002 (with the cohosts South Korea also writing an incredible story through their journey to finish fourth).

 

[HonestSpursFan]

Thing is we weren't boring. I was so gripped at being suffocated and the challenge it presented. I was that asphyxiated that I can cancel my domina appointment this week.

We actually looked watchable which is refreshing! Even the first halves of our friendlies looked weren’t entertaining and there’s been moments under Tony Popović where we’ve been piss poor to watch.

 

[melbcityguy]

I've read a lot of comments about how we parked the bus. I don't really get it? That's football we defended well and took our chances.

How's that a bad thing?