Might as well take all our first 11 off, well as many as we can. No point risking injuries
Nabbout and Maclaren work so much better in Arnie’s system than Juric. Their pressing has been really useful.
Grant, Gersbach and Jurman on the pitch together. Forza Sydney FC! (And cue the Arnie haters) 
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And nice assist by Gersbach
Great first touch and then finish from Irvine. Quality finish that.
Yeah, was top notch.
Awesome. It’s not every day you get to beat the Gulf Gold Cup champions
Wouldn’t mind seeing Mabil taking a few more free kicks with Mooy injured
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Hard to take much from that training run, nice finish by Irvine and great to see Mabil and Ikonomidis get among the goals.
Another ineffectual effort from Kruse. Surely it’s best for his confidence and our performance to give him an extended spell on the bench. Doing neither of us any favours by continuing to start him.
I’d say that he just played himself out of the XI, but we’ve all thought that before and he’s somehow up to cap # 70.
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I watched the first half but didnt even realise Kruse was on the pitch.
Some effort to remain anonymous against that shitshow, too.
Kruse is up there with Matt McKay getting 59 caps as a complete Socceroos mystery.
It’s a mystery that McKay is still in the A League.
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Boyle out injured, replacement to be named in the coming days.
Troisi’s going to be royally pissed off when Goodwin/Antonis/anyone else gets the nod.
Fucks sake the injury list is ridiculous
So who do we take instead? Goodwin I guess?
This tournament could be an absolute disaster.
The SMH is saying Apostolos Giannou will be called up and will link up with the team in the United Arab Emirates in the coming days.
Oh FFS, he was looking like our best player.
At this rate, getting beyond the quarters is going to be some achievement. FYI if everything goes to plan at both ends, Australia will face Japan at that point.