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Socceroos defeat of Wales: a sign of things to come - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The Socceroos' upcoming World Cup campaign looks on firm ground. This morning's friendly against
Wales showed the evident class of both sides' top players, but a workmanlike Australia were the
superior team against a side whose Premier League pedigree belies it's FIFA ranking of 119.
Socceroos squad v Wales has been announced and somewhat dishearteningly to me - given his recent
performances, Bristol City's Neil Kilkenny has grabbed a place in an 18 man squad.
In a 32 World Cup possible squad maybe - but the final 18!
Kilkenny hasn't done nearly enough in my view to keep a Socceroos place after some rather shaky
performances in the Asian Cup and recent friendlies.
For Tony Mowbray, it must be frustrating to see Kris Boyd and Scott McDonald fail to live up to
their reputations of once free-scoring SPL strikers at their previous clubs Rangers and Celtic
respectively. It just shows that the transition from Scottish football to English football is much
harder than first thought especially from the Scottish Premier League to the Championship.
For Tony Mowbray, it must be frustrating to see Kris Boyd and Scott McDonald fail to live up to
their reputations of once free-scoring SPL strikers at their previous clubs Rangers and Celtic
respectively. It just shows that the transition from Scottish football to English football is much
harder than first thought especially from the Scottish Premier League to the Championship.
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?
DOHA, Qatar – Socceroo striker Tim Cahill is racing the clock to be fit for Australia's Asian Cup
semi-final against Uzbekistan next Tuesday. Asked yesterday if he would play, Cahill said only: "I
hope so." Cahill was touch and go for the Iraq match, after badly bruising a thigh against Bahrain.
He managed to play [.
