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Socceroos vs Venezuela/ Colombia Nov 25

How should Australia do November?

  • European based camp

    Votes: 23 71.9%

  • Australian based camp

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • Middle East based camp

    Votes: 2 6.3%

  • Nothing

    Votes: 1 3.1%
  • Total voters
    32
Quicky said:
Also true. Though he switched to a 4-4-2 for 5 mins vs USA. Does that count as flexible 🤣
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Watch him claim it in a press conference. We looked alright then didn't we? :D The reaction after the goal saw a bit more urgency with passing. I'll need t have a look later and the match analysis thread may get a work out. Looking forward to Decentric's points to on O'Neill. I agree he has his good parts but I'm just disappointed after what was an amazing debut against Ecuador. Again, he played with fire that night because he had a chance after the complacency of others in midfield for too long. We need another power vacuum.
 
Basically guys like Miller and Irvine come back into the side and look at home because they're much well versed than Silvera or Balard. Popovic then feels vindicated and wants to say 'see? the guys you want aren't of the grade.' He's like the teacher giving his least favourite students the hardest examples and constantly moves the goalposts. All those debuts tonight but Devlin doesn't get on.
 
JS96 said:
Watch him claim it in a press conference. We looked alright then didn't we? :D The reaction after the goal saw a bit more urgency with passing. I'll need t have a look later and the match analysis thread may get a work out. Looking forward to Decentric's points to on O'Neill. I agree he has his good parts but I'm just disappointed after what was an amazing debut against Ecuador. Again, he played with fire that night because he had a chance after the complacency of others in midfield for too long. We need another power vacuum.
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The urgency after a goal is a sign of a panicked reaction. It basically says to me the game plan isn't working and the team knows it.
 
JS96 said:
Basically guys like Miller and Irvine come back into the side and look at home because they're much well versed than Silvera or Balard. Popovic then feels vindicated and wants to say 'see? the guys you want aren't of the grade.' He's like the teacher giving his least favourite students the hardest examples and constantly moves the goalposts. All those debuts tonight but Devlin doesn't get on.
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We need one of Metcalfe or McGree in the front 3, who can drop into midfield to help our 2 pivots. We get outnumbered. I don't think it's a coincidence we looked better with McGree than Metcalfe. Metcalfe had a down game but McGree looked dangerous, if still a little rusty.

We need one or both of our pivots to be able to play progressive passes. It would help our transition. If they can't do that + aren't being combative (like today) they offer nothing.

I find too often we bypass our midfield and rely on our wing backs. When we are bypassing midfield Burgess and Circati are super important because they're at least good long passes. We didn't start with either.
 
I know we re still a hard team to beat but they way we are being outplayed every game is a big concern.

Being outplayed even by teams like Indonesia, Saudi Arabia , Bahrain (2nd half) china (2nd half) New zealand

it is also turning the fans away by this boring tactic. Even if it is a farewell game for the world cup it wont fill the stadium.
 
Jason Geria and Kai Trewin are the first pair of Canberrans to start together for the Socceroos since who in 2008?
 
Cunningstunt said:
I would expect this as well. Although predicting things with Popa hasn't been straight forward.

I think the recent experiments have shown our second tier drop off is quite noticeable.
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I think we've gone down to the 3rd and 4th tier with some of the selections but maybe it will pay off at some stage. Anyway the March squad should be much closer to the squad we take to the World Cup. Lots of players got a chance in the last 3 windows. Some have taken them, some others haven't.
 
Thoughts, the left side on paper looked attacking, Goodwin put some good deliveries into the box, however was caught out of position for the goal. Irankunda could not get into the game. All the wingbacks struggled to deal with Venezuelan pace. Okon-Engstler is probably not best suited to 34% possession game. Metcalfe battled hard but was contently trying to beat 2-3 players. Miller was closed down often without getting any service into the box. Al Hassan Toure may prove to be a asset for Popa on the counter.

Team for game 2

-------------------Beach
---Degenek---Burgess--Rowles
Overy---Balard---Metcalfe---Elder
-------------------McGree
--------------Toure----Toure
 
Just ridiculous that Devlin isn't getting a gig but Okon-Engstler does off an adult-level professional career consisting of 4 games for Sydney FC. Almost as bad is that we've seen O'Neill almost every game for Popa, so why not try someone like Devlin instead who is smashing it and one of the best players in SPL this season for thd team sitting top. O'Neill is constantly mediocre in my opinion. Adds nothing of significance to the team.
 
verrelli said:
Just ridiculous that Devlin isn't getting a gig but Okon-Engstler does off an adult-level professional career consisting of 4 games for Sydney FC. Almost as bad is that we've seen O'Neill almost every game for Popa, so why not try someone like Devlin instead who is smashing it and one of the best players in SPL this season for thd team sitting top. O'Neill is constantly mediocre in my opinion. Adds nothing of significance to the team.
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I suspect Devlin will get a gig against Columbia. Popa may have seen Okon better suited against the weaker opposition and Devlin better suited against stronger opposition where his defensive attributes - still his strength despite improvements he has has made in other areas of his game - are seen as more necessary. But we shall see.
 
huddo said:
You didn't see them come out of the woodwork after the Japanese win?
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Incredible result capping a remarkable turnaround of the wcq. This was most of what I remember seeing. It barely constitutes praise, more just states what happened.
Fanboying would surely be more along the lines of saying he is a generational coach, will transform the country, take us to another level, will lead to a second gg etc.
If you dislike a manager enough, even someone disagreeing about him being sacked will come across as a fan.
 
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