Excellent start for Socceroos but tougher tests await on road to Qatar

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Excellent start for Socceroos but tougher tests await on road to Qatar | MickLynch_Age

Australia could not have got off to a better start than this one, with three goals inside the first 38 minutes all but wrapping up the tie before the interval.Graham Arnold had made a rod for his own back with his bold prediction in the lead-up to this game that the current squad of players could become the best Socceroos team ever – better even than the golden generation who took Australia to the World Cup in Germany in 2006 for the first time in 32 years.

But the real test will be a month later, when the Socceroos fly to Jordan to take on the nation that they have struggled to handle in the heat and the febrile atmosphere of Amman.Travelling to the Middle East to play in searing heat and stamina-sapping conditions is never easy irrespective of the gulf in quality between the teams.

In the prevailing conditions that was about as perfect a half-time situation that Arnold and his team could have hoped for.

 

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