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2010 WCQ ASIA

Qantas Socceroos 3-0 Qatar

Match Details

Australia 3 (Joshua Kennedy 10’, Tim Cahill 17’, Mark Bresciano ’)
Qatar 0

Australia line-up: Mark Schwarzer (gk); Lucas Neill, Craig Moore (Brett
Holman 78’), Tim Cahill (Carl Valeri 66’), Jason Culina, Brett Emerton,
Luke Wilkshire, Joshua Kennedy (John Aloisi 70’), Scott McDonald, David
Carney, Mark Bresciano
Subs from: Ante Covic (gk); Jacob Burns, Jade North, Archie Thompson

Cautions: Moore (65’)

Crowd: 50,969

Stadium: Telstra Dome in Melbourne


*Brett Holman: NEC Nijmegen(Eredivisie)
*Joshua Kennedy: Karlsruhe(Alemania)
*Scott McDonald: Celtic(Scotland)



Josh Kennedy

Tim Cahill

Brret Emerton

Jason Culina

Scott McDonald

DT: Pim Verbeek

David Carney

Craig Moore 這是他的國家隊告別賽。

Mark Bresciano


Australia's World Cup campaign off to a great start

Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Australia’s 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign got off to the perfect
start, with a convincing 3-0 win over Qatar at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne.

A blistering first half by Australia set up the win, in front over almost
51,000 fans, with goals by Joshua Kennedy (10’), Tim Cahill (17’) and Mark
Bresciano (33’).

Pim Verbeek’s decision to bring his overseas stars back was justified, as
they simply ran rings around a shell-shocked Qatar, whose belief sunk after
Kennedy headed Australia ahead in the 10th minute.

The second half saw Australia see the effects of the travel set in and while
Qatar played better and had several chances they never really offered a great
threat on Mark Schwarzer’s goal.

Verbeek’s reign as Socceroos coach could not have got off to a better start
and was very satisfied after the match, although he also acknowledged it was
only going to get tougher from here on.

Knowing that tiredness from the hectic travel would play a role later in the
game, Verbeek knew he had to get goals early and against the norm went for a
two-pronged attack, with the next generation of strikers in Scott McDonald
and Kennedy taking centre stage.

The players responded magnificently, the two strikers combining in the 4th
minute, to set up Cahill, whose shot was blocked away by Qatari keeper Saqr.

Australia’s aerial dominance was already evident, when in the 10th minute,
Kennedy managed to out-jump two Qatari defenders to head home Brett Emerton’
s cross from the right. The confidence grew and any neutral would have
thought it was Australia that had been training together for a month and not
just the few days they actually had in Melbourne.

The movement had the Qataris chasing shadows; the passing was crisp and
precise on most occasions; while the crossing both by Emerton and David
Carney always had the Qatari defence on the back foot.

It was no surprise then that Australia’s lead was doubled after 17 minutes,
Cahill magnificently guiding a Luke Wilkshire corner into a surprisingly
empty net.

Kennedy almost had a second on 28 minutes, but was denied by the outstretched
foot of Saqr, but the inevitable third was not long in coming.

McDonald brilliantly held the ball up on the right edge of the penalty box,
saw the late run of Bresciano into the heart of the box and placed his pass
perfectly for the Palermo midfielder, who buried his shot past Saqr.

Cahill should have made it four minutes later, getting his head to another
Emerton cross, but this time Saqr was equal to the task.

With such a commanding lead and the effects of the travel starting to set in
once in the changing room at the break, it was inevitable that the second
half was always going to prove tougher for the home side.

And while Qatar, defended further up the pitch and showed more composure on
the ball, Australia’s defence, which included Queensland Roar’s Craig
Moore, was looking solid.

It was still Australia creating the best chances, with Wilkshire’s powerful
drive saved by Saqr; Cahill went close with another header; Bresciano was
also denied by a good save from Saqr; while Kennedy saw a header go inches
over the crossbar.

Qatar’s best chance came in the 58th minute, when Mesaad was left with a
relatively simple finish from close range, but contrived to send his shot
into the side-netting.

The only sour note on the night was an ankle injury to Kennedy, which saw him
substituted by John Aloisi.

Aloisi, disappointed not to be starting, should have scored late in the
match, when he was end of a terrific 50-metre ball from captain Lucas Neill,
but he scuffed his shot and the ball went weakly to a relieved Saqr.


But the damage had already been done in the first half and sent an ominous
warning to its other two rivals in the group China and Iraq, who are expected
to put up much more of a fight then Qatar did tonight.


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那三個打星號的球員是以後要重點觀察的對象。
Holman之前就看過了,是個可愛的小孩子樣的人(檔案照很醜)
http://www.nec-nijmegen.nl/layout.php?p=4&SpelerID=269
McDonald原本是蘇超Motherwell球員,夏天加盟Celtic後挺猛的,已經進了13球。
http://www.celticfc.net/home/players/playerInfo/smcdonald.aspx
Kenndy在德甲,那支球隊我沒印象(汗),但他待過好多球隊。
http://www.ksc.de/index.php?id=597 
1982年長這樣也挺玄的

看到比數跟進球者,還有球員替換的感覺,蠻想看這場的...

Mile Sterjovski 加盟了Derby。
Reading竟然也有澳洲球員-Adam Federici,GK。

最新的FIFA世界排名,澳洲上升到新高38位。
日本(35) 伊朗(39) 南韓(41)

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