Australia against New Zealand: Partner in Male International Football – Live | Australia
Key events
28 minutes: The rhythm of the game at this stage can be essentially summarized because New Zealand has more ball without creating a lot and that the Australians seem really dangerous only whenever BOS takes place.
24 minutes: A mixture of Australians almost sees Thomas jump on a loose ball in the penalty surface, but the hosts are just able to recover and get rid of in time.
22 minutes: The life of Australians! And it is delivered easily by their best player tonight in Bos!
The Feyenoord Flanker does a race on the left which finally sees the weaving around several defenders of Kiwi and will go to the top of the penalty surface, from where it exploded a shot on the bar.
21 minutes: The Kiwis took control of the game at this stage, the hosts having difficulty tightening a lot by passing together and being above all forced to defend.
18 minutes: A big backup of Izzo on wood! The Kiwi captain burst behind the Socceroo lines after a superb pass from Singh and is head-to-face with the beginner. The goalkeeper, however, is not going to close the angles and force a range of reach, which he descends later to his right to keep the gap.
15 minutes: No more kiwi construction. All this has been rather lukewarm so far, with moments that accelerate the pulse in difficulty, it crosses the generally laborious periods of possession on both sides.
14 minutes: Another extended period of possession of Kiwi – they see a large part of the ball in these last exchanges – ends with Tim Payne whipping in a cross which is cleared for a corner.
11 minutes: A dangerous effort of Singh! The midfielder finds a space of space at the top of the box and flashes an effort to the goal, sending Izzo plupping to his left while he sails right next to the post.
10 minutes: Degenek returns the ball to Izzo, which quickly hears the wood steps. Rather than panicking, however, the nine caretaker brings the ball back back and sends Captain Kiwi to the stores.
9 minutes: A long jet of Vries left by Cirati, but the Australians are unable to clear their lines and their Kiwi opponents resume possession.
8 minutes: An extended possession period for the kiwis takes place, but they cannot find a way to cross the organized form of Australia and their possible speculative ball forward for Francis de Vries is cleaned by Silvera.
5 minutes: BOS goes down to the left but stops when it reaches the opposition penalty area and plays a pass back, which allows the defense to get back in position and forces the Socceroos to reset.
4 minutes: OOF. Metcalfe nourishes bos in space and he explodes all along the left and in the Kiwi box, before his square ball attempt devals a defender, knocks the post and leaves the game. The whites of all clean the resulting corner.
3 minutes: The first plane of the game takes place like the kiwis, which put pressure early, but it is lukewarm and well above the bar.
2 min: Izzo goes for a long time looking for a boyle, which started like the new as expected, but it is comfortably cleared by Joe Bell.
1 min: New Zealand has been working on the ball quickly since the kick-off, but after a break in defense, the ball is released and Izzo goes out to claim.
To start up
We are in class at Bruce Stadium!
Australia will wear their green and gold kits, their dark green shorts and their white socks in this competition. As you can expect from a team called the All whites, The Kiwis wear a retro-inspired all-white kit.
At least someone is warm … He freezes here in the gallery.
The teams are on the ground and the hymns are sung. The kick -off is a few moments here in the Australian capital.
Now the question that most of you are probably asking. When can we see children?
To start, whoever hoping to see Noah Botić will have to wait at least the leg back in Auckland, the former Western United Stiker joining Anthony Kalik while missing the team of 23 players for the match tonight.
When it comes to attacking the bench options, Popovic is not really shy options with Touré, Milanović, Irankunda and Segečić sitting behind him in the canoe. But it is also difficult to see him presenting the four in the match alone this evening. Instead, he probably intended for some players for use in New Zealand on Tuesday, while others will play tonight.
With Teague and O’Neill starting in the midfield, Balard will have to make his international debut on the bench this evening, but given his coherent shape and function to improve because he was in a window training camp before June, he must be about to obtain this ceiling at this stage.
It will be an incredibly proud moment for Degenek this evening, which had the honor of carrying the armband for the Socceroos for the first time.
Settling in Sydney as a refugee after having escaped conflicts in the Balkans as a young child, Degenek often speaks for the deep love and the appreciation he has for the Socceroos and what it means for him to represent his country on the international scene.
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In the midst of the injuries and an absence of the leaf of the Crvena Zvezda team, he found himself in the international nature lately – his absence from the Socceroos team during the last Asian cup, where it would probably have been presented to see South Korea in the quarterfinals, always burned – but after having moved TSC, he was brought back to the Plé by Popovic.
An exceptional professional, a resolved defender, a cloakroom sabotage and now an international captain, he is an excellent asset for Australia heading towards a World Cup.
It is somewhat advanced under the radar in the middle of all the excitement of young people, but the return of Silvera to the XI of departure continues a few remarkable months for the former sailor.
For the last time for the national team for its 0-0 draw with Indonesia in Jakarta – at the time when Graham Arnold was a coach – Silvera had some non -spectacular stays on loan to Portsmouth and Blackpool during the offseason and should be shown at the door of the parent club Middlesbrough during the intersane.
The 24 -year -old, however, reinvented himself like a wing for the new boss of Boro, Rob Edwards, and went from undesirable to a constant presence in the river: to start each match in the middle of an undefeated start to the season which sees Boro seated at the top of the championship.
All whites XI
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New Zealand obtained its place during the FIFA World Cup 2026 in March, beating New Caledonia 3-0 to claim the only place in Oceania during the newly widely widened tournament of 48 teams and an argument can be advanced that, even with some notable absences this evening, Darren Bazeley will have one of the most talented Kiwi. the following year.
The star of the show and the head of the line this evening is Chris Wood, the Nottingham Forest striker – the only Premier League player on the park this evening – who is ready to exceed Mark Viduka as the largest oceanic scorer to the largest scorer in the High Vol.
Marko Stadenić and Liberato Cocaces were both forced to withdraw from the team due to an injury, but the Kiwis still have tastes of Sarpreet Singh, a Degeenek teammate on the Serbian side Tsca Bačka Topola and Pec Zwolle’s Ryan Thomas, returning to international football since 2019 after a horrible injury, of a horror race, to be called.
XI Soccérosis
For all the speeches on young blood, Popovic will deploy an XI mainly filled with proven players for this evening match – who, although not as exciting as a largely experimental range has sense from the point of view of the preparation of the World Cup.
Martin Boyle seems ready to lead the line, the role in central forward and not something that fans of Socceroo are used to seeing him, but he often filled for the club on the Hibernian side. He will be flanked by Connor Metcalfe, who scored his first international goal in the victory of Australia over Saudi Arabia in June, and Ajdin Hustić.
Aiden O’Neill and Ryan Teague will fill the double pivot at the base of the midfielder while Jordy Bos and Sammy Silvera will flank three from Cameron Burgess, Miloš Degenek and Alessandro Cirati.
However, we made his debut between messages, with regular and solid performances from Paul Izzo with the Danish teams rewarded with a very first international start.
Lewis Miller takes up a place on the bench for the first time in the Popovic era, just like the young Max Balard, Segečić, Irankunda, Nicolas Milanović and Mo Touré.
Preamble
Joey Lynch
Howdy All, Joey Lynch here, and welcome to a new chapter of the Tony Popovic era of Socceroos: their first match after their qualification for the 2026 World Cup, with a concentration now and really towards the preparations for the world centerpiece.
Rightly so, he will come against an opponent who has also already struck his ticket to North America, in the form of New Zealand, with this evening match and the return leg in Auckland next Tuesday also marking the resumption of the rivalry of the ashes of football between the two parties.
From an Australian point of view, a large part of the preparation of this game focused on young players and not capped who were selected in the Popovic team – the chief among them Boy Star Boy Nestory Irankunda and Rising Portsmouth Dynamo Adrian Segečić.
Although the coach preferred continuity and experience throughout the qualifications, with the qualification of the secure World Cup, the A-League was still in its offseason, and several key contributors were injured or simply solving their club situation, there are seven non-ceiling players in the team of 25 players who was selected for this window, and eight others have less than ten international appearances.
We will be back with alignments shortly.
