Socceroos V Japan

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Aus starting side: Schwarzer Neill Cahill Ognenovski Wilkshire Carney North Valeri McKay Brosque Bresciano

I hope we improve. I'm excited to finally get to watch a Roos game. Always seem to miss them.

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Japan starting side: Kawashima Honda Nagatomo Uchida Endo Okazaki Kagawa Konno Kurihara Hasebe Maeda

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So how the hell does North get a start over Rhys Williams!

[shinAUFC]

Love it how loud we sing the national anthem even at world cups.....#shiverdownthespine

[shinAUFC]

Carney farkn

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Good start so far except for losing Bresh. #ohno

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Nil all HT. Fairly happy with what I'm seeing. We need to take our chances though.

[shinAUFC]

Great first half!!

Win or lose i think the roos so fat have stuck it to those who were calling for blood after the nil all draw in a virtual sauna.

From the opening minute tonight its been clear holger told them to go out and win it, as opposed to the last game where i think we played for a point.

Brosque and cahill look great and carney is freakin carney!!

Lets find the back of the net now!!

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Harsh second yellow for Milligan but his first yellow was stupid. Bad news!

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0-1 to Japan and australia come very, very close to a Japanese own goal.

Penalty to Australia from the resulting corner.
But only a yellow to the Japanese player.

AND...

1-1

Australia convert the soft spot kick.

[shinAUFC]

This ref has killed the game, non exsistant second yellow, non exsistant pen , then doesnt give yellow to jap defender for deliberate handball which would have been a send off!!!

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Wow now a soft as send off for Japan! Hilarious!

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Fitting end to the game! Pure comedy from the ref!

[shinAUFC]

Wow this ref.........

[Stuckey]

Very happy with the game I thought we played well and showed we can match it. Although it was decided by the ref a draw was a fair result. We still just need to work on finishing and possesion in the final third. But this is a long term problem Australia has and will not be solved anytime soon.
Great to see Ruka get some gametime hopefully he is in Holger's plans going forward.
Why Kruse gets in the squad over Leckie is a wonder. Leckie has played more games this season then Kruse and for a bigger club??? North over Williams is another head scratcher?