Home

Australia vs Netherlands

  • warning: array_fill() [function.array-fill]: Number of elements must be positive in /home/shawware/drupal-6.24/includes/database.inc on line 253.
  • warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/shawware/drupal-6.24/includes/database.inc on line 253.
  • warning: array_keys() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /home/shawware/drupal-6.24/modules/user/user.module on line 528.
  • user warning: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')' at line 1 query: SELECT p.perm FROM uhm_role r INNER JOIN uhm_permission p ON p.rid = r.rid WHERE r.rid IN () in /home/shawware/drupal-6.24/modules/user/user.module on line 528.
Posted by david at Sun, 2009/10/11 - 21:03 on australia | football | socceroos
Friendly - 2009-C
Australia vs. Netherlands
at Sydney Football Stadium on 2009-10-10 19:30
Score: 0-0 (0-0)
Previous Match: Ireland vs Australia
Next Match: Australia vs Oman

A home town match featuring the world #3 team ... of course, I was there. The match was of a pretty good standard, but was more tense than exciting. The Netherlands was the dominant team, but we battled well and got away with a 0-0 draw.

Jamie and I went in on the moped, which was pretty quick and parking was easy. A bit of light rain was about, but didn't spoil the conditions too much. The match was sold out, but some members' seats were empty, so we finished with a crowd of ~40,500. There was plenty of orange in the crowd too. Our seats were good - under cover and on the half way.

The first half was reasonable. Neill was a bit rusty, but still good. Grella went off early, injured - not good. Good to see Cahill, Kennedy, Kewell, Schwarzer, etc. going round. The Dutch were good - great passing game - but not very effective up front.

Cahill and Kennedy came off at half-time, no doubt being saved up for Wednesday's match. If anything, the Dutch improved while we had to scramble more. Kisnorbo looked good. Emerton was excellent - great to have him back. Overall, we were probably lucky to hold on for the draw, but could have snatched it with a couple of minutes to go - Holman blasting over.

Trivia: had we won, we would have claimed the title of Unofficial World Champion for the second time.

Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Internal paths in double quotes, written as "internal:node/99", for example, are replaced with the appropriate absolute URL or relative path.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <sup> <sub> <h1> <h2> <h3> <img> <acronym> <strike>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Filtered words will be replaced with the filtered version of the word.

More information about formatting options