Socceroos win, but which players impress?
Socceroos win 2-0 with a comfortable victory over the ninety minutes.
David Carney scored, and the old faithful Mile Sterjovski popped one in.
We have maybe 50 plus players fighting to get on that plane, over the next twelve months, and Australian players will be doing their utmost to get in the 23.
A chance of a lifetime.
Should be great for our players improvement and every game, every player must now grab his chance.
Another tedious first half performance but Bahrain made it tough with every player back behind the ball, and with seven changes in the Aussie side what can you expect?
Mile Jedinak continues to underperform at this level and has a bit to do if not to get on the plane but to get a game at the World Cup.
Clearly Carl Valeri, Vinny Grella and Jason Culina are way ahead for centre midfield. Jedinak's distribution again lets him and the team down and contributed to a poor first half for the men in green and gold.
Clearly the Central Coast Mariners is no different to playing in Turkey.
Mark Milligan is back and will add pressure for a defensive place. David Carney's athleticism ensures he'll be there and he did well tonight creating one and scoring the other, and Brett Holman showed enough to suggest they'll be in final 23.
Nicky Carle got ten minutes but who knows what he can do. Scott McDonald continues to disappoint me in an Aussie shirt although he had perhaps his best game tonight.
We're struggling in a creative sense and with goals at a premium we need McDonald under any system to score goals.
And Brett Emerton, Scott Chipperfield, Tim Cahill, Vinny Grella, Marco Bresciano, Carl Valeri, Craig Moore, Josh Kennedy and maybe a certain Mark Viduka are still ahead of what we saw tonight.
Next up Japan at the G and isnt that a great test for the team. Awesome.
2 comments:
Either give Nic Carle a descent run of tell him he's not wanted.
It was quite clear to everyone (except the coaching staff) that when Nic came on he was immediately an option for short passes in the central position. Something that didn't occur for the previous 82 mins.
A player like Carle needs exposure to the game and for a coaching staff to have confident in the way he'll affect the game. It's unfair to expect any 'X' factor from a player with 8 minutes to go.
Give him a fair chop or not at all!
i disagree that scott mcdonald is disappointing - he needs more service and he simply has much of this in games he's played, though from what i gather of this week he had more opportunities and might have done better at least once. but let's also not forget that inter's goal machine, ibrahimovic, netted in a wc qualifier this week for the first time for his country in over twelve months - would you leave him out of a squad?
i also like carle - admit to also being a palace fan here! - and would like to see him developed into the kind of creative unpredictable canny midfielder we sorely need to be able to do a job at defending while serving two - yes two - up front, if we're to have any hope of progressing in rsa next year.
i'll also go out on a limb and suggest lucas neil is not the best fit for captain and needs to concentrate more on his distribution - long a weak point in his game for mine.
all in all, the best squad on the park will give pretty well any opposition headaches on their day, and a big up to pim for a cracker of a job so far!
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