ChrisJ

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The race for Moscow is now certainly tense. The Thailand game could really hurt us, if we had won that
we would be in a far better position and could consider our first half as qualifiers as about a 7 or 8 out
of 10. Now, to me we are at about a 5 or 6 out of 10. Nobody else gave up any points to Thailand in the
first half. Plus we looked terrible in that game, and very bad against Japan.

I wish I could be as confident as the author is here in some of the games, he sees as winning or drawing.
An away draw against Japan would be an extremely good result, albeit an unlikely one. I am always nervous
when we play them, and they just seem so superior to us as a team overall.

Iraq has given us problems before many, many times. Home, away and neutral. A win here would be huge first up,
but I think a draw is more likely.

I thought we outplayed the Saudis away and hopefully we can dispatch them at home, as middle eastern team tend
to underperform away. However I am not hugely confident here either. Even the Thais at home we have struggled
with before.

I think at the moment we really just don’t have the cattle unfortunately. Most glaringly, we lack talent up front and on the
wings. We have almost not strikers, and Kruse and Leckie have not performed well at all for us recently. Who else
can we even bring in these areas as replacements? Oar. Burns. My biggest concern
is where the goals are going to come from, and how exposed we become all the time since Smith seems to want to
play as a left-winger.

This is going to be very tough and I think there is a very good chance we will finish third in this group, which will
make things very interesting. Sadly I reckon we are going to get eviscerated at the Confed Cup.

The Socceroos' qualification campaign will be a walk in the park

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