Australia-Japan

GUUSJE HIDDINK!!!

Bit late for this topic (match has started already), but holland has, besides our own team, 3 other coaches competing in the championship One of them is ons Guus (Australia), and let's hope he wins...

First game I've missed on TV

But 5Live are broadcasting it over the interweb so yay, work has some interest :D

this is by far the best match so far
FORZA THE SOCCEROO's!

^^^ What he said. ^^^

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A win due to the coach.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/2006 05:01PM by SupA.

Its not always the Coach.. You are acting really dutch

Ausies played good, I liked the last part of the game

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Magic Senna

what the hell!!!!? what channel was this on? I deliberetly looked in TV guide to see what and when matches start, only noticed 2 matches both on BBC 1 with first one starting at 1700

wtf when was this on?

@ 1500 Dutch time..

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Magic Senna

what a finish!!!! timmy cahill for prime minister!!!!

socceroos deserved the win, japan played pretty well but were gifted their goal through some dodgy umpiring but were in all honesty and looking at it completely objectively outplayed. maybe not 3-1 outplayed, but outplayed nonetheless.

bring on brazil......

oh, and the wallabies got up (for once) as well against england last night!

We kicked them out of Dawrin, we kicked them out of Sydney, now lets kick them out of Germany!!

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!

Australia are the dirtiest international team I have ever seen.

H E L L O

Aye, will be brilliant to see them cripple half of the Brazil team! :D

Ah, I'm delighted for the Aussie team! By hook or by crook, whether they should have drawn that match or whatever... their first ever World Cup, and I'm so pleased they got a good start. Plus a great match to watch.

Japan were superb in defence until the last 5 minutes, but up front probably the worst team to play so far...

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Agree with other posts, Australia is so dirty I couldn´t believe it :|. I hate teams that play like that, and it´s just a shame the Japanese players aren´t really good or decent, except for one or two. Australia was pressing but Japan was surviving, they even had a penalty for them not given by the referee. Japan is just too weak sometimes, I hope they don´t feel like playing too strong against Brazil. I feel sorry for Zico, he does a magnificent job with that horrible team but everything falls apart because the players can´t stand the pressure, especially how they collapsed after the first goal.

Why does everyone forget that Japan's first goal shouldn't have stood anyway. Sort of evens itself out.

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!!

Must admit i can not stand soccer but i watched this one and got all geed up hope the aussies can go all the way

to all the soccer fans are japan any good?

The Thunder from Downunder

soccer fan numero uno in this thread already said that they are a liability for their coach

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It should have stood. gareth southgate and the other commentator guy were being incredibly biased commentating, in favour of australia. The goal was not "controversial" at all imho. If anything, the bloody australian defender blatantly shoved the japanese player with both arms, and also, the goaly elbowed him in the face (though this may have been more accidental).

H E L L O

I think we play it very hard, but the ammount of free kicks given particularly in the first half was more due to the Japanese officials' gamesmanship in trying to influence the referees before the game. I think it worked for them, and good on them for doing it, whatever advantage you can get etc etc.

50/50 calls went against the Aussies, e.g. things that could and probably should have been let go were called but it evened itself out a bit more in the second half.

Of-course these views are from a one-eyed Socceroos supporter!

And this is actually our second World Cup, we played in West Germany in 1972, and went home without scoring a goal, so it's quite nice to get a few!

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> And this is actually our second World Cup, we played in West Germany
> in 1972...


why did they play there 2 years before the World Cup?

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