Socceroos World Cup Qualifiers Socceroos V Indonesia / China
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It was at Allianz next to the SCG, half the size of Homebush and it was basically an Indonesian home game. They couldn't even sell it out.
Tells you everything about Sydney crowds.
It's weird how Sydney struggles so much to pull good crowds in lots of different sports. It seems to be the one major city of Australia that's not crazy about sport or maybe just not as into events culture as other Australian cities. My understanding is they had a pretty poor crowd show up for the recent Kambosos boxing card in Sydney and that event was held on a Saturday night with several world title fights involving Aussie champions. Really strange considering Sydney is the most populated city in Aus.
Also, Indonesia are still 1-0 on Bahrain at half time.
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I think it is a case of playing there so often the casual fans that would go if it was a once every couple of years event don't end up going. If it hadn't been so long since the Socceroos last played in Perth then I don't think the crowd would be as big as it is going to be.
Having the best team in Asia come here is certainly a big help. Usually Perth was given the lower-middling sides. Iraq & Bangladesh. Kuwait was scheduled before COVID shut everything down. Palestine.
Nice to have a top tier nation here.
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Hopefully Japan take us lightly for the next game given they've already qualified lol.
The fourth round will be tricky if we don't qualify here. 2 groups of 3 teams with the top team of each qualifying. Likely to be involving UAE, Qatar, Iraq/Jordan, Oman, us & Indonesia.
1 game vs each team at one venue.
Wouldn't bet against it being in the middle east (i.e. Qatar).
The fourth round will be tricky if we don't qualify here. 2 groups of 3 teams with the top team of each qualifying. Likely to be involving UAE, Qatar, Iraq/Jordan, Oman, us & Indonesia.
1 game vs each team at one venue.
Wouldn't bet against it being in the middle east (i.e. Qatar).
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I would say the bigger clubs their stars play for would want them to miss considering they have already qualified.
We just need to be all guns blazing when they do.
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It's in the off season so that won't really be a consideration.
Japan will send a quality team, they just won't be that motivated. Perhaps they'll give a few younger stars a crack.
Another thing is Saudi have Bahrain away which is a difficult fixture. I'd say there's every chance they don't win that.
If we draw and Saudi draw (a likely possibility) that leaves us 3 points ahead of them with a GD of +7 going into the last game.
Saudi's GD being -2.
That means Saudi would need a 5-0 victory to overturn the their GD deficit of 9 which obviously is highly unlikely.
After Indonesia beat Bahrain we can't finish lower than 4th.
Situation heading into the last 2 games has a few different qualification scenarios, and a few wild mathematically possibilities.
Indonesia can direct qualify but there a raft of results that would need to play out.
We could make it with as little as a single point (draw with SA), but that cracks the door open for Indonesia. 2 points would get us there....
Situation heading into the last 2 games has a few different qualification scenarios, and a few wild mathematically possibilities.
Indonesia can direct qualify but there a raft of results that would need to play out.
We could make it with as little as a single point (draw with SA), but that cracks the door open for Indonesia. 2 points would get us there....
It would be a hell of an effort, especially as they've only scored 4 goals through 6 games!
Bloody fantastic results, surprised there aren't more posts in here but I guess this is first and foremost a footy forum.
Beat Japan (who have nothing to play for) and we are just about guaranteed to be in.
Beat Japan (who have nothing to play for) and we are just about guaranteed to be in.
This is what Miles was talking about having a plan
. Hard to believe that the browns could have 100m of QB money on their books per year
The Socceroos are a little "off broadway" these days. The casual punters are quite as interested and there aren't many household names in big leagues.
100% agree about the results though, mind you beating Japan isn't something we do well.
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This is what Miles was talking about having a plan
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Yeah it makes me wonder if a lot of Aussies just assumed we would go through with the additional spots and will just spark up once the Cup begins.
Not that simple though, Asia gets tougher and tougher, especially in the middle east.
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Beat Japan and Saudis will need to win by a 5 goal margin against us to go through on GD..
Presuming they beat Bahrain which is a difficult fixture for them anyway.
