Australia look forward with certainty
Australia look forward with certainty :- Australia mentor Bert van Marwijk said his gutsy group should tally themselves out and out unfortunate to have gone down 2-1 to France in their World Cup opener on Saturday and can look forward with certainty to their outstanding Group C matches.
The Socceroos looked changed from the group that toiled through a long qualifying effort and two playoffs just to get to Russia as they contended manfully with one of the pre-competition top picks at the Kazan Arena.
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An Antoine Griezmann punishment granted after reference to the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) and a late, avoided Paul Pogba strike anchored the win for France, with Mile Jedinak having changed over a spot-kick for the men dressed in green and gold.
“They beat us with us such a fortunate objective,” said the Dutchman.
“I was frustrated. Be that as it may, I figure we can be pleased with the way we played against a standout amongst other groups on the planet.
Australia look forward with certainty
“No one had expected that we could play like this against France,” he included. “I think there were a considerable measure of minutes they didn’t comprehend what to do any more …”
After an anxious begin where the pace of the French advances looked like overpowering the Australia protection, the Socceroos worked their way once more into the challenge and had the most obvious opportunity to score before halftime.
The second half was a skirmish of equivalents and at last chose by the tightest of edges, Josh Risdon’s trailing foot getting Griezmann for the punishment and Pogba’s shot redirected onto the crossbar and landing centimeters over the line.
“I can’t accuse any of my players, I can just give them compliments. We in any event merited a draw,” Van Marwijk included.
“When you see this diversion, you should have certainty for whatever remains of this competition, that is typical. The way we worked the most recent a month, that gave me certainty.”
Whatever is left of the competition for Australia will be matches against Denmark on June 21 in Samara and Peru in Sochi five days after the fact, except if they can get the outcomes they have to get into the knockout stages out of the blue since 2006.
While the group that accomplished that in Germany was Australia’s “brilliant age”, the present yield are definitely not and Van Marwijk needs to assume incredible praise for his work since assuming control as of late as March.
“I figure everyone could see today that this today is an alternate group,” he said.
“A standout amongst the best things likewise is that we indicated guts and we demonstrated that we could act naturally. The following amusement is another diversion however it gives us certainty, I think.”
