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On a night when AZ starter Charlison Benschop bagged a hat trick, late sub Jozy Altidore has come
on to hit a brace of his own, capping a 6-0 win at ADO Den Haag. They were both simple finishes,
coming less than two minutes apart on assists by Brett Holman and Maarten Martens.Jozy had been
without a goal since December 4th, but now his league total stands at seven and his haul across all
Brett Holman's miss for Dutch league leaders AZ Alkmaar against NAC Breda was right up there
with Fernando Torres and Ronny Rozenthal's epic misses, what made it worse was his team were beaten
2-1.
Brett Holman's miss for Dutch league leaders AZ Alkmaar against NAC Breda was right up there
with Fernando Torres and Ronny Rozenthal's epic misses, what made it worse was his team were beaten
2-1.
With his side down one, Jozy Altidore has bagged an insistent 20th minute equalizer from some
dreamy combo play with Brett Holman.FYI: He now has five on the Eredivisie season (in the 14th of
the 34 matches) and 11 across all competitions - well on pace to both fulfill my promise of 10
league goals and put him one short of a third place tie with DaMarcus Beasley in the category of
goals in a
With his side down one, Jozy Altidore has bagged an insistent 20th minute equalizer from some
dreamy combo play with Brett Holman. While we wait for the clip, let's just see if he's got any
more in him today...- Greg Seltzer
Socceroos won in Bangkok last night.
And wasn't it fantastic. Tense, tight and terrific football - from the Thai's at least. With a
packed stadium in downtown flooded Bangkok the Aussies are no longer in Oceania.
And remember this is only the first group stage.
We needed a point - but if Robbie Kruse didnt know which of the Sutkee brothers at the end he
played with in Melbourne - Michael Zullo had a fair idea by the end of the night.
Jozy Altidore scored AZ's final goal in a 3-0 shutout of ADO Den Haag in Holland's Eredivisie.
Brett Holman opened the scoring in the 11th minute with Adam Maher making it 2-0 in the 64th.
Altidore finished off the scoring in the 83rd minute. Michael Bradley went the distance for Chievo,
beating Fiorentina 1-0.
Looks like Brett Holman might miss the next World Cup Qualifiers due to injury - so a chance for
Timmy Cahill to come back in?
International football - players come and go pretty quickly.
Just five years ago, Cahill was a bench warmer for Hiddinks team in 2006 - he came on with
explosive impact and now just five years later his international career is less secure.
Do you remember when we used to make hard work of Oman?
With Harry Kewell, Brett Emerton, Tim Cahill, Vinny Grella all English based in the line-up.
Three times we played them in the last four years - three times we struggled - really
struggled.
This time with a bunch of so-called lesser names, younger boys, we waltz it.
Jozy Altidore got the start for AZ and scored the opening goal in a 4-1 win over Malmo. Altidore's
goal came in the 21st minute, with Rasmus Elm making it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 33rd. Adam
Maher (39th) and Brett Holman (49th) also scored for AZ, before Malmo ruined the shutout with a
penalty in the 72nd minute.
Football fans label Coaches crap or brilliant.
Jose Mourinho used to be brilliant, now he's second he's well...less so.
Alex Ferguson is always brilliant - he always wins, whereas Neil Lennon is crap - he comes second -
add in Vitaslev Lavicka - season 1 brilliant, season 2 crap.
Ange Postecoglou is now brilliant and despite losing heaps of players in Season 1 and beginning of
Season 2 if he's not top of the league after three games he'll be.
We'll need a squad to see us through to Brazil, a big squad. So no problems for all you Tim Cahill
fans, he'll be there to the end.
But is Tim a certain starter in the Australian football team?
Not in my book - not anymore. Now before I get smashed by all you Timmaay fans let's take a look at
my reasoning.
All the so-called experts and many fans on football forums denigrated Australia for their recent
World Cup Qualifier against Thailand.
Why?
Because we allowed Thailand to score first, we didn't pass with fluency, we launched the ball high
into the box too many times, or maybe because we didn't win 6-0.
Michael Lynch - a man who's family is from the far end of the Curragh (Irish Racecourse) we're just
a bit closer, but further away. Got it?
Lynchy is a much respected Aussie footy writer - but on his player development focus written in the
Age I reckon he has a couple of points wrong or at least is unaware of what is coming.
Mitchell Langerak, Mustifa Amini and Dylan Tombides.
All three are at top German or strong English Clubs - Langarek is proven as a keeper having played
in the A-League and in the Asian Champions League and in Germany with Dortmund he can surely only
improve and challenge Adam Federici in years to come for the Soccerooos spot.
Aussies found the game a little more meaningful against Serbia than the run out against the
Kiwis.
Michael Zullo was tested and showed he has a lot to learn but still showed enough to get some more
opportunities.
Adam Federici and Brett Holman were both outstanding against top opposition and Serbia were a class
outfit - recently beaten by South Korea it should be noted despite missing 4 or 5 key players.
The Socceroos young guns stepped up to defeat NZ 3-0 yesterday. Despite the usual whingeing from
many fans about the play there was plenty for me to like about Holger's team performance.
Particularly the crisp passing and pacy interchange in the final third. We don't often get to see
it in the Green and Gold - and Josh K was on the field too, who would have thought!
Great we got to a final with a strong performance over Uzbekistan and a strong but ultimately
losing performance in the Asian Cup Final.
No-one more delighted to see the team playing some decent fast forward focused football and let's
face it we should have won the final. Will we ever get a better chance?
Australia drew 1-1 with Korea in it's crucial Asian Cup Qualifier last night.
A strong performance from the Australia team, particularly at times in the final third showed
enough to suggest that the triumverate of Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and the mobile Brett Holman
could see them yet into the final.
Thanks to Johnroar for the link! http://radiotime.com/station/s_113003/TBS_eFM_1013.aspx
Talking football to our Korean friends ahead of the clash tonight.
Go Australia!
Thoughts pre-game:
Could Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and Brett Holman be the key to victory?
Really looking forward to this mouth-watering clash as are the Koreans if you go by the numbers of
Koreans posting on Aussie blogs!
Young fast and mobile with players, that's Korea, playing in big leagues in Europe against an
Aussie team ageing and in decline.
Korea thumped Australia 3-1 earlier this year in Seoul and it could be a similar night tomorrow.
Now that the first round of Asian Cup group matches are in the bag, the tournament is starting
to come into focus a little. Some teams are already in a must-win (or at least must-not-lose)
situation, and others are one win away from the knockouts. There have been 19 goals so far (see
them all here), and luckily only one of those has been from the penalty spot, and we have a few
goalscorers who have already racked up multiple goals.
Australia beat 142 ranked India 4-0 in the Asian Cup opener.
A rusty Asutralia relied on the old fellas, Tim Cahill (2), Harry Kewell (1), and Brett Emerton to
create and score most of our goals. Brett Holman scored the other.
A comfortable win amd one which sets us up for the massive game with Korea on Friday.
DOHA, Qatar — An impressive Australia crushed India 4-0 to get their Asian Cup campaign off to a
decisive start Monday with red-hot Everton star Tim Cahill collecting two goals. Played at an
Al-Sadd Stadium packed with noisy expatriate Indians, a convincing win was needed by the Socceroos
to demonstrate their tournament credentials against a [.
India fell to a 4-0 defeat against Australia in their first AFC Asian Cup appearance since 1984 on
Monday. Two goals from Everton's Tim Cahill and one apiece from Harry Kewell and Brett Holman saw
the Socceroos go atop Group C pending South Korea's meeting with Bahrain later today. Australia
outshot India by 19 to 5 [.
