Things I liked:
- Toure‘s opening attack
- Beach’s speccy saves
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5 - #Socceroos conceded five shots on target against Venezuela today, the third time they've logged five or more in this category in 2025 (8 vs Canada - 11 Oct 2025 & 6 vs Saudi Arabia - 10 June 2025); they did this only once in 2024. Structure.
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As Venezuelan/Australian, I can say that the #socceroos really wasted an opportunity here. I really thought they'll be more positive against a team full of kiddos. That being said, it's good to see there's a future for #lavinotinto. The 'chamitos' showed a lot of promise.
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Geez, very underwhelming performance tonight…not what we’ve been used to under Pop. Not a great sign ahead of the World Cup next year…but great to have 3 strong GKs in the line up, very good debut by Beach #Socceroos #VENvAUS
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It's not the results in this North American run of friendlies that are concerning (and we've won one of them anyway) ‒ it's what the fuck we're actually trying to build, or not. And it's not just (or shouldn't just be) about the World Cup either. #VENvAUS #Socceroos
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I forgot the third favourite reductive and self-fulfilling crutch to use in place of more uncomfortable and introspective scrutiny of our brain thinking in football ‒ "this is just how international football is, don't expect anything pretty".
We can and should be better. #VENvAUS #Socceroos
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That was a horrendously bad performance from Australia. Just about every aspect of the game was second rate. Let’s see what comes next.
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That was dire Popa seems to only have 1 plan hold on and shithouse a goal late on #VENvAUS
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And speaking of the end of Chipperfield at LB, instructive shoutout to how he suddenly looked very old there at WC 2010 and was of better use back further forward in spurts of gametime in the little time he had left at NT level. Similar for Goodwin now. #VENvAUS #Socceroos
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This 2nd half is very much showing that Popa sucks once his teams go behind offering absolutely nothing putting Venezuela under no pressure #VENvAUS
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A preemptive FU to people disagreeing even more with me when I go on in future about Goodwin being worth trying out at L(W)B at times in the mid 2010s-early 2020s, now that they can point to him being dragged at HT when finally played there at almost 34yo in a...not great setup. #VENvAUS #Socceroos
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Started well but after the 1st 10 mins that 1st half was a great example of why I don’t enjoy Tony Popovic coached football teams #VENvAUS
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It also hurts being someone who has a soft spot for a back three and how much managers who rigidly stick to it (regardless of it being unhelpfully prone to turning into a way too passive back five) then give it a bad name and make it look more suboptimal/unwise than it can be. #VENvAUS #Socceroos
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Half of it is Irankunda needing to learn/improve his temperament obviously, the other half is...the dissonance of playing reactive passive ball while wanting to turn him into a starter.
But hey Poppa knows what he's doing, look at his record etc. [/RBA]
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Weird to not see the boys playing their usual attacking style tonight…they seem to be taking one too many touches, which results in them getting pushed back every time. Definitely need to lift for the second half… #Socceroos #VENvAUS
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Goodwin just not paying attention now we have to play from behind which Popaball can’t handle #VENvAUS
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Archie Goodwin is their point guard. 😂
This can go on Robbie's list of things he'd like to re-call next on @aleagueoffair.bsky.social
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That is what happens when a ref is reluctant to call fouls #VENvAUS
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Evidently the refs decided no corners in this game #VENvAUS
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Charlotte Hornets eh?
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Mo Toure already showing he’s too good for these Venezuelan defenders #VENvAUS
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🇻🇪 vs. 🇦🇺 for the first time since 2004!
Here's two of my favourite jerseys on mi collection.
🇻🇪 2018 Home. Very hard to find, I only found it last year.
🇦🇺 2010 Home. Hard to find for a while. Always wanted one and finally got it about 6 years ago.
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