Football World Cup 2018 / Australia

Football World Cup 2018 : Australia
Trainer	Bert van Marwijk
captain	Mile Jedinak
Qualified as	Intercontinental playoff winner against Honduras
World rankings before the tournament	36
Tournament result	Out after the preliminary round
Games won	0
Games tie	1
Games lost	2
Gates	2: 5

This article covers the Australian national soccer team at the 2018 World Cup . Australia, which played the most qualifying matches and scored the most qualifying goals, entered the finals for the fifth time and were Asian champions for the first time. Apart from Australia, only European champions Portugal take part as one of the six current continental champions.

qualification

The team ultimately qualified through the intercontinental playoff games for which Australia had qualified as the fifth best team in the qualification of the Asian Football Association AFC .

Games

Tim Cahill, top Australian goalscorer

Australia did not have to intervene until the second round and met Bangladesh , Jordan , Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the group stage . Of the eight resulting games, Australia won seven and lost only one game. Besides the 2-0 defeat in Jordan, the Australians always scored at least two goals. As group winners, Australia qualified for the third round, which again took place as a group stage. Here the Australians met Japan , Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , Iraq and Thailand . Out of ten games, the Australians only lost the game in Japan, which qualified early for the World Cup finals. The Australians had lost fewer games than the Japanese and Saudis who were ultimately placed in front of them, but since they only won five and drew four times in a row, they had to be content with third place due to the worse goal difference compared to the Saudis with the same points.

As third they met Syria in the fourth round, the third in the parallel group. After a 1-1 draw in the first leg, which was achieved in a neutral position in Malaysia due to the civil war in Syria , they fell behind in the second leg in Sydney as early as the sixth minute. Tim Cahill was able to equalize seven minutes later, but it stayed until the end of regular time. In the necessary extra time, Cahill then scored the winning goal. The Australians were thus qualified for the intercontinental playoffs against the fourth-placed CONCACAF qualifier. Opponents were Honduras and in Honduras there was a goalless draw. In the second leg in Sydney, captain Mile Jedinak scored three goals, two of which came from penalties. Honduras only managed the consolation goal in stoppage time. With that, Australia was after 22 games, most of all qualified teams qualified for the finals.

Overall, national coach Ange Postecoglou , who resigned after the successful qualification, used 37 players in the 22 games - in relation to the number of games, these are the fewest players of all qualified teams. 19 of the players used were also in the squad for the 2015 Asian Cup , in which the Australians won the title for the first time. No player was used in all games. Aaron Mooy and Mathew Leckie made 19 appearances - no player played more games in this qualification. Mark Milligan and Tom Rogic played 18 games . Three players had only one appearance, including goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak . The top scorer was Tim Cahill . In 16 games, in which he only appeared four times over the full season and was substituted on eight times, he scored 11 goals, including his 50th international goal in the 2-1 win over Syria in the second leg of the fourth round. He was the third top scorer in the Asian qualification. Mile Jedinak contributed ten goals , including the last three goals that led to the 3-1 win in the last game against Honduras and thus the final qualification. A total of 13 Australians contributed at least one goal to the 50 goals they had scored themselves, and they also benefited from an own goal by a Kyrgyz player, so that they scored 51 goals (average 2.32 per game). Neither team scored more goals in qualifying, but all other teams had fewer games. World champions Germany and Belgium scored an average of 4.3 goals per game.

Second round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Australia
06/16/2015	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	-	Australia	1: 2 (0: 1)	Mile Jedinak (2nd), Tommy Oar (68th)
09/03/2015	Perth	Australia	-	Bangladesh	5: 0 (4: 0)	Mathew Leckie (6th), Tom Rogic (8th, 20th), Nathan Burns (29th), Aaron Mooy (62nd)
09/08/2015	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	-	Australia	0: 3 (0: 0)	Mark Milligan (57th), Tim Cahill (74th, 90th + 1)
08/10/2015	Amman	Jordan	-	Australia	2: 0 (0: 0)
11/12/2015	Canberra	Australia	-	Kyrgyzstan	3: 0 (1: 0)	Mile Jedinak (40th / penalty), Tim Cahill (50th), own goal Kyrgyzstan (70th)
11/17/2015	Dhaka	Bangladesh	-	Australia	0: 4 (0: 4)	Tim Cahill (6th, 32nd, 37th), Mile Jedinak (43rd)
March 24, 2016	Adelaide	Australia	-	Tajikistan	7: 0 (2: 0)	Massimo Luongo (3rd), Mile Jedinak (13th / penalty), Mark Milligan (57th / penalty), Nathan Burns (67th, 87th), Tom Rogic (69th, 72nd)
03/29/2016	Sydney	Australia	-	Jordan	5: 1 (3: 0)	Tim Cahill (24th, 44th), Aaron Mooy (39th), Tom Rogic (53rd), Massimo Luongo (70th)

Final table of the second round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Australia	8th	7th	0	1	029: 400	+25	21st
2.	Jordan	8th	5	1	2	021: 700	+14	16
3.	Kyrgyzstan	8th	4th	2	2	010: 800	+2	14th
4th	Tajikistan	8th	1	2	5	009:200	−11	05
5.	Bangladesh	8th	0	1	7th	002:320	−30	01

Third round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Australia
09/01/2016	Perth	Australia	-	Iraq	2: 0 (0: 0)	Massimo Luongo (58th), Tomi Juric (64th)
09/06/2016	Abu Dhabi	Ver. Arab. Emirates	-	Australia	0: 1 (0: 0)	Tim Cahill (75th)
10/06/2016	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	-	Australia	2: 2 (1: 1)	Trent Sainsbury (45.), Tomi Juric (71.)
10/11/2016	Melbourne	Australia	-	Japan	1: 1 (0: 1)	Mile Jedinak (52nd / penalty)
11/15/2016	Bangkok	Thailand	-	Australia	2: 2 (1: 1)	Mile Jedinak (9th / penalty, 65 / penalty)
03/23/2017	Tehran ( IRN )	Iraq	-	Australia	1: 1 (0: 1)	Mathew Leckie (40th)
03/28/2017	Sydney	Australia	-	Ver. Arab. Emirates	2: 0 (1: 0)	Jackson Irvine (7th), Mathew Leckie (78th)
06/08/2017	Adelaide	Australia	-	Saudi Arabia	3: 2 (2: 2)	Tomi Juric (7th, 36th), Tom Rogic (64th)
08/31/2017	Saitama	Japan	-	Australia	2: 0 (1: 0)
05.09.2017	Melbourne	Australia	-	Thailand	2: 1 (0: 0)	Tomi Juric (69.), Mathew Leckie (86.)

Third round final table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Japan	10	6th	2	2	017: 700	+10	20th
2.	Saudi Arabia	10	6th	1	3	017:100	+7	19th
3.	Australia	10	5	4th	1	016:110	+5	19th
4th	Ver. Arab. Emirates	10	4th	1	5	010:130	−3	13
5.	Iraq	10	3	2	5	011:120	−1	11
6th	Thailand	10	0	2	8th	006:240	−18	02

Fourth round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Australia
05.10.2017	Krubong ( MAS )	Syria	-	Australia	1: 1 (0: 1)	Robbie Kruse (40th)
10/10/2017	Abu Dhabi	Australia	-	Syria	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 1: 1)	Tim Cahill (13th, 109th)

Intercontinental playoffs

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goalscorers for Australia
11/10/2017	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Australia	0-0
11/15/2017	Sydney	Australia	-	Honduras	3: 1 (1: 0)	Mile Jedinak (54th, 72nd / penalty, 86 / penalty)

preparation

On January 25, 2018, Bert van Marwijk was announced as the new national coach.

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Goalscorers for Australia
23 March 2018	1: 4	Norway	Oslo	Jackson Irvine (19.)
March 27, 2018	0-0	Colombia	London ( GBR )
June 1, 2018	4-0	Czech Republic	St. Pölten ( AUT )	Mathew Leckie (32nd, 72nd), Andrew Nabbout (54th), Jugas own goal (80th)
June 9, 2018	2: 1	Hungary	Budapest	Daniel Arzani (74th), Tamas Kádár (90th + 2 / own goal)

Note: Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup

Quarter

The team's quarters will be the training base of Ak Bars Kazan in Kazan , where the team can use the Trudovye Rezervy stadium for training purposes.

Squad

On May 8, coach Bert van Marwijk nominated a provisional squad of 32 players, which had to be reduced to 23 players. It happened on June 3rd. Were canceled Alex Gersbach , Apostolos Giannou , Fran Karačić , Mitchell Langerak , Joshua Brillante , James Troisi , Nikita Rukavytsya , Aleksandar Šušnjar and Bailey Wright . Record scorer Tim Cahill is the first Australian to take part in a World Cup finals for the fourth time.

position	No.	Surname	society	birth date	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use						World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2018)	World Cup goals (before 2018)
goal	12	Brad Jones	Feyenoord Rotterdam P	03/19/1982	006th	00	2007	06/09/2018
	01	Mathew Ryan	Brighton & Hove Albion	04/08/1992	044	00	2012	06/09/2018	3					2014	3	0
	18th	Danny Vukovic	KRC Genk	March 27, 1985	001	00	2018	03/27/2018
Defense	16	Aziz Behich	Bursaspor	December 16, 1990	023	02	2012	06/09/2018	3		1
	02	Miloš Degenek	Yokohama F. Marinos	04/28/1994	018th	00	2016	06/01/2018
	06th	Matthew Jurman	Suwon Bluewings	December 8, 1989	004th	00	2017	11/15/2017
	03	James Meredith	Millwall FC	04/04/1988	002	00	2015	11/17/2015
	19th	Joshua Risdon	Western Sydney Wanderers	07/27/1992	008th	00	2015	06/09/2018	3		1
	20th	Trent Sainsbury	Grasshopper Club Zurich	01/05/1992	035	03	2013	06/09/2018	3
midfield	22nd	Jackson Irvine	Hull City	03/07/1993	019th	02	2013	06/09/2018	2
	15th	Mile Jedinak	Aston Villa	08/03/1984	076	18th	2008	06/09/2018	3	2	1			2010, 2014	4th	0
	10	Robbie Kruse	VfL Bochum	05.10.1988	064	05	2011	06/09/2018	3
	08th	Massimo Luongo	Queens Park Rangers	09/25/1992	036	05	2014	06/09/2018
	05	Mark Milligan	al-Ahli	08/04/1985	068	06th	2006	06/09/2018	3					2010, 2014	1	0
	13	Aaron Mooy	Huddersfield Town	09/15/1990	034	05	2012	06/09/2018	3
	23	Tom Rogic	Celtic Glasgow D	12/16/1992	037	07th	2012	06/09/2018	3		1
Storm	17th	Daniel Arzani	Melbourne City FC	01/04/1999	002	01	2018	06/09/2018	3		1
	04th	Tim Cahill *	Millwall FC	December 6, 1979	106	50	2004	06/09/2018	1					2006, 2010, 2014	8th	5
	09	Tomi Juric	FC Luzern	07/22/1991	035	08th	2013	06/09/2018	3
	07th	Mathew Leckie	Hertha BSC	02/04/1991	053	08th	2012	06/09/2018	3		1			2014	3	0
	14th	Jamie Maclaren	Hibernian Edinburgh	07/29/1993	006th	00	2016	06/01/2018
	11	Andrew Nabbout	Urawa Red Diamonds	12/17/1992	022nd	07th	2018	06/09/2018	2
	21st	Dimitri Petratos	Newcastle Jets	11/10/1992	002	00	2018	06/01/2018
Coaching staff	Trainer	Bert van Marwijk		06/28/1953	1	0	2018							2010	7th
	Trainer assistant	Mark van Bommel		04/22/1977	79	10	2014							2006, 2010	10	0
	Trainer assistant	Roel Coumans		08/23/1970			2018
	Goalkeeping coach	Tony Franks		01/11/1965	14th	0
Status of appearances and goals: June 9, 2018, after the game against Hungary
↑ Positions according to information from the Australian Association. ↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ * = The player is an Australian top scorer ↑ Clubs in italics play in the season before or during the World Cup in the second division of their country, D = champions and cup winners in the world cup year, M = champions in the world cup year, P = cup winners in the world cup year ↑ According to video evidence ↑ a b c As a player for the Netherlands ↑ a b c d With the Netherlands ↑ As a player

Finals

Group draw

Samara Kazan (VR + Q) Sochi

Locations and quarters (Q) of the Australian team

For the qualifying group draw on December 1st, Australia was assigned to Pot 4. In Group C , the team will face ex-world champions France , Denmark and Peru , who were the last to qualify. Australia did not meet any of the three teams in the previous four appearances in 1974, 2006, 2010 and 2014. Against Denmark, they had previously won and lost three friendlies. There was a victory against France in the preliminary round of the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup , in which France took part as world and European champions, as well as a draw and two defeats in friendly matches. Australia had not yet played against Peru. In Sochi, Australia had already played in the preliminary round of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in 2017 , but not in the other two preliminary round venues.

Group stage / group C matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	2	1	0	003: 100	+2	07th
2.	Denmark	3	1	2	0	002: 100	+1	05
3.	Peru	3	1	0	2	002: 200	± 0	03
4th	Australia	3	0	1	2	002: 500	−3	01

Saturday, June 16, 2018, 1:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. CEST) in Kazan
France	-	Australia	2: 1 (0: 0)	62 ′ / penalty Jedinak , 81 ′ Behich
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 4 p.m. (2 p.m. CEST) in Samara
Denmark	-	Australia	1: 1 (1: 1)	38. ′ / Penalty Jedinak
Tue., June 26, 2018, 5:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Australia	-	Peru	0: 2 (0: 1)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Australia wins playoff duel - Syria mourns
2. ↑ fifa.com: Jedinak shoots the Socceroos to the World Cup with a hat trick
3. ↑ fifa.com: Postecoglou resigned as coach of Australia
4. ↑ fifa.com: Van Marwijk new 'Socceroos' coach
5. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
6. ↑ myfootball.com: Van Marwijk names six new faces in preliminary squad
7. ↑ socceroos.com: Caltex Socceroos finalize squad for Russia