Dominion
12/08/2003, 3:13 PM
Hey just wanted to get an Irish view point of the friendly match coming up as in Australia friendlies are the only games we look forward to usually.... Australia are on a high after beating England (all so long ago) but i suspect Ireland will be a tougher opposition as the players have much more to prove.
Farina has basically said it will be the same XI which ****es alot of aussie fans off since we have players on the bench provento be better than ones there. e.g. Grella for okon, Bresciano for Skoko.
Kewell Viduka
Chipperfield Skoko Okon Emerton
Lazaridis Popovic Moore Neill
Schwarzter
The only change to this expected to be made is maybe tiatto on for one of the left sided players or kalac on for scwartzer who has had a great intertoto campaign.
some of the interesting duels has gotta be :-
Moore Vs Keane- Moore in my opinion is a great defender strong and takes no nonsense but i suspect he'll be always on his backfoot against keane who will be trying to run at him all day.
Viduka Vs Breen- Viduka has never played to well for Australia bu he has a knack of drawing defenders out leaving space for Kewell to Exploit evenif breen isnt marking him.
Duff vs Emerton- I expect this to be the major duel in the match both are very attacking players extremeley fast skillful while also are there to help out the defence. I suspect the player to end up ontop of the other will be the deciding point in the match. I just hope from an aussie perspectve that you select harte ahead of o'shea emmo will rip him apart (im a leeds fan) IMO duff is more potent then emmo but emmo has a greatcross on him but wouldnt score as much as duff.
What are some of ur thoughts??? what XI are ireland liely to play and what formation?
Farina has basically said it will be the same XI which ****es alot of aussie fans off since we have players on the bench provento be better than ones there. e.g. Grella for okon, Bresciano for Skoko.
Kewell Viduka
Chipperfield Skoko Okon Emerton
Lazaridis Popovic Moore Neill
Schwarzter
The only change to this expected to be made is maybe tiatto on for one of the left sided players or kalac on for scwartzer who has had a great intertoto campaign.
some of the interesting duels has gotta be :-
Moore Vs Keane- Moore in my opinion is a great defender strong and takes no nonsense but i suspect he'll be always on his backfoot against keane who will be trying to run at him all day.
Viduka Vs Breen- Viduka has never played to well for Australia bu he has a knack of drawing defenders out leaving space for Kewell to Exploit evenif breen isnt marking him.
Duff vs Emerton- I expect this to be the major duel in the match both are very attacking players extremeley fast skillful while also are there to help out the defence. I suspect the player to end up ontop of the other will be the deciding point in the match. I just hope from an aussie perspectve that you select harte ahead of o'shea emmo will rip him apart (im a leeds fan) IMO duff is more potent then emmo but emmo has a greatcross on him but wouldnt score as much as duff.
What are some of ur thoughts??? what XI are ireland liely to play and what formation?