Australia V New Zealand: Men’s International Football Friendly – Live

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Socceroos XI

For each nan talk of young blood, Popovic will deploy an XI mostly filled pinch tried and tested players for tonight’s fixture – which while not arsenic breathtaking arsenic a wide experimental lineup makes consciousness from a World Cup mentation standpoint.

Martin Boyle looks group to lead nan line, nan centre guardant domiciled not thing Socceroo fans are utilized to seeing him do but 1 that he has often filled for nine broadside Hibernian. He’ll beryllium flanked by Connor Metcalfe, who scored his maiden world extremity successful Australia’s triumph complete Saudi Arabia backmost successful June, and Ajdin Hrustić.

Aiden O’Neill and Ryan Teague will capable nan double pivot astatine nan guidelines of nan midfield while Jordy Bos and Sammy Silvera will flank a backmost 3 of Cameron Burgess, Miloš Degenek, and Alessandro Circati.

We do, however, person a debut betwixt nan posts, pinch Paul Izzo’s regular and beardown performances pinch Danish broadside Randers rewarded pinch a first-ever world start.

Lewis Miller takes a spot connected nan chair for nan first clip successful nan Popovic era, arsenic do youngsters Max Balard, Segečić, Irankunda, Nicolas Milanović and Mo Touré.

Preamble

Joey Lynch

Howdy all, Joey Lynch here, and invited to a caller section successful nan Tony Popovic era of nan Socceroos: their first crippled pursuing their qualification for nan 2026 World Cup, pinch attraction now good and genuinely shifting towards preparations for nan world showpiece.

Aptly, it will travel against an force that has besides already punched their summons to North America, too, successful nan shape of New Zealand, pinch tonight’s fixture and nan return limb successful Auckland adjacent Tuesday besides marking nan resumption of nan Soccer Ashes rivalry betwixt nan 2 sides.

From an Australian perspective, overmuch of nan build-up for this crippled has centred connected nan young and uncapped players that person been selected successful Popovic’s squad – main amongst them prima boy Nestory Irankunda and rising Portsmouth dynamo Adrian Segečić.

While nan coach has preferred continuity and acquisition passim qualifying, pinch World Cup qualification secured, nan A-League was still successful its offseason, and respective cardinal contributors either injured aliases conscionable resolving their nine situation, location are 7 uncapped players successful nan 25-player squad that has been selected for this window, and a further 8 person less than 10 world appearances.

We’ll beryllium backmost pinch lineups shortly.