Australia: The luckiest country?
Marco Bresciano scored in the 92nd minute to give the Aussies a win, a lucky win, in Manama tonight against Bahrain.
What a game....for Bahrain.
Australia played a very poor match tonight but amazingly snatched three precious away points as Pim's luck continues.
A save in Kunming, a win over Iraq at home and now this...despite creating a chance...against a team with four players out in a game we were supposed to walk!
Bahrain attacked and attacked all night and Australia scrambled...all night and somehow despite the pressure and movement in and around the box Mark Scharwzer wasn't tested that much.
Harry Kewell was woeful. Tim Cahill looked injured, Josh Kennedy was shocking and the pitch made life very difficult for the Aussies.
Carl Valeri and Jason Culina worked in the midfield with Robbie Slater suggesting once again that Culina was the best for the Aussies...this time he waited 70 minutes but the words came just the same.
Chris Coyne and David Carney were poor. Carney struggled in the first half particularly defensively.
But somehow from somewhere the Australian team got the points.
Everyone would have been happy for a point, the longer the game went, but in the last moment a long long ball was launched Bresciano got on the end, and just when it seemed like he'd wasted the chance he lashed it home.
It was a joyous moment particularly at 4pm in the morning.
And amazingly Australia have three wins from three and are flying towards South Africa with three home games from five to come...and we're 8 points ahead of Bahrain and Uzbekistan with all teams having played 3.
Funny game football...not if you're from Bahrain.
1 comment:
football is a cold hearted game.
you don`t get points for the number of shots you take. hitting the post is worth the same as hitting the corner flag.
a year or two back i saw an arsenal vs cska moscow game and had a personal epiphany. arsenal kept the ball, took 50 shots or something, and lost 1 or 2 nil. arsenal weren`t the better team. they were toothless. cska weren`t lucky. they were the team who put their chances away.
from what i saw of the highlights, bahrain will be kicking themselves for not taking 3 points. for giving us the opportunity to take 3points.
of course, looking ahead, we will want to defend better than we did, keep the ball the ball better than we did, and create more chances than we did. a more clinical opponent would have won 3 nil. at least.
thanks schwarz. most important socceroo atm? in games like these he is.
clayton
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