January 2008 Rankings:- 34 Japan 41 Iran 41 Korea Republic 48 Australia 57 Saudi Arabia 66 Uzbekistan 67 Iraq 82 China 88 Qatar 92 Oman Full Ranking
The bigger mystery to me is why 4 of the top ten are in the same 3rd round group for World Cup Qualifying. This Guarantees that two of the top 10 won't make it to the last ten.
A full strength Australia team playing at their capacity would soundly spank Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Just because of one embarassing cup campaign doesn't mean we are the worst team in Asia.
if ur team value their life, they wouldnt come to iraq. but we beat u in thailan, so it wasnt our home ground either. neways we'll find out in a couple of months.
If we played in Iraq then maybe, it's a real shame we aren't allowed to play home games for security reasons. But yeah I highly doubt that even when playing your best you'd "spank" Saudi or Iraq.
Over-confident remarks!!! Seems like you are under estimating both the nations. Now, I sure wish to see Australia vs Saudi Arabia and Australia vs Iraq. It's pride involved now!!!....
Ah but we beat you in a friendly later that year with a second string side in Sydney 2-1. We wouldn't be beaten either. Playing at our best at the world cup under Hiddink, we virtually sat on Japan in a 15 minute phase and were all over Italy until a last minute penalty sent us packing. If we can beat Japan, we can beat Saudi Arabia.
beat us with a second string, u think we were playing with our first team, no nashat, younis and god knows how many more. also, why do u think australia is the best in asia, its the same cockiness that got u out of the asian cup. remember the score 3-1, aint that good. wait till after the WCQ , Iraq - Australia, if u beat us then talk, but i highly doubt u will.
You are kidding right? we played with our League Players + 5 players from A team, most of those players won their real international match, we didn't have any clue who they are before this match and thank to you they became famous to us. yet some of them (if not 90%) don't deserve to play for the NT, one of them, the one who scored against you, His name is Mohammed Nassir. at first we said wow he is the one, then he turned to be a very average player. Iraq squad Sarmed Rasheed Haidar Abdul-Amir Ahmed Kadhim Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Yassir Raad, Haitham Kadhim (Muayad Khalid 62') Wisam Zaki Nashat Akram Hawar Mulla-Mohammed Mahdi Karim (Safwan Abdul-Ghani 86'), Mohammed Nassir (Ali Jaber 80') Bold = A team players Australia squad Schwarzer Lucas Neill Tony Popovic Craig Moore [c] Stan Lazaridis (Tony Vidmar 46') Josip Skoko Mark Bresciano (Jon McKain 62') Tim Cahill (Jason Culina 72') Scott Chipperfield (Mile Sterjovski 62') Brett Emerton (Ahmad Elrich 72') John Aloisi. Tell me which one isn't your A team player? http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/iraq-intres2005.html
Australia squad Schwarzer Lucas Neill Tony Popovic Craig Moore [c] Stan Lazaridis Tony Vidmar 46 Josip Skoko Mark Bresciano (Jon McKain 62') Tim Cahill (Jason Culina 72') Scott Chipperfield (Mile Sterjovski 62') Brett Emerton (Ahmad Elrich 72') John Aloisi All done. So I fear I have not yet been pwned.
Wow! Didn't Australia got spanked by Iraq? You Aussies (losers) got big mouth. Why don't you go back to OFC?
what exactly have you done? I didn't understand. The Bold are A team players or not? because as I know Tony Popovic, Skoko, and John Aloisi were your A team players in the last few years.
Wow! You're a wanker. Why would we want to go back to the OFC for? We joined the AFC for a challenge and that's what we got at the Asian Cup instead of spanking the coconut islands 31-0 every international window. We knew it wouldn't be easy at the Asian Cup and we got tonked. And if we're losers, how come we were the only Asian team to get into the Round of 16 at the World Cup?
IRT Mussav: Harry Kewell would usually start ahead of John Aloisi, Vince Grella over Josip and Scott Chipperfield playing at the back allowing Brett Emerton to go foward. The best Aussie XI circa early 2005 would be on the lines of this: ---------------------------Schwarzer----- -----------Neill---------Moore------------Chipperfield ----------------Grella------------Culina-------- Emerton--------------------------------------------Bresciano ------------------------Cahill----------------------- -----------------Viduka------Kewell
this team isn't that different to the one that got soundly beaten by iraq at asian cup. on current form iraq would have to be favourites and i dont see any reason why australia would spank iraq or saudis.. its a new world!!!