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The Green & Gold
GREEN GOLD
The Socceroos have by no means strolled into the World Cup finals.
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After finishing third in Group B of the Asian Group Qualifiers they faced the UAE in an elimination play-off. We had to move on from this disappointment and turn things around if we had any hopes of making it to Qatar. Getting a narrow 2-1 victory against the UAE meant it was time to face Peru, who were unable to achieve automatic qualification in the South American Qualifiers.
Peru were the heavy favourites into this do-or-die match, in which the winner would earn their ticket to the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
In a nail-biting game neither side could grab a goal, despite many close calls, which meant the winner would come down to a penalty shoot-out. I’m sure many Aussies were getting flashbacks to Aloisi in 2005 against Uruguay.
Our hero of the match became Andrew Redmayne when he saved the deciding penalty to win the shoot-out for the Socceroos.
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The world was in shock. The Socceroos had completed the impossible. We now face an almost identical group to the 2018 campaign, against the World Cup winners France, as well as Denmark and Tunisia this November. Let’s get behind the boys once again, and who knows what will happen. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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For viewing the games live, Qatar are seven hours ahead of Australia during the daylight-saving period. This means
