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Posted by david at Wed, 2010/09/08 - 21:33 on australia | football | socceroos
Friendly - 2010 - F
Poland vs. Australia
at Krakow, Poland on 2010-09-07 20:00
Score: 1-2 (1-2)
Scorers: Brett Holman (13'), Luke Wiltshire (25')
Previous Match: Switzerland vs Australia
Next Match: Australia vs Paraguay

A win's a win. And it's always nice to win away from home. We were a bit scrappy and were outplayed towards the end, but we hung on for our first win since the World Cup finals.

A frantic opening 30 minutes should have seen four goals. Australia scored first through Holman, before Poland equalised just four minutes later. Wilkshire converted a penalty shortly afterwards, before Federic saved one. 2-1 up at this point and there it stayed all match.

Australia played pretty well in the first half, but were probably outplayed in the second, by a team that hasn't played a competitive match since October last year. Emerton managed to get two yellows cards in the space of a few seconds. But Poland couldn't capitalise even with the Aussies down to ten men.

Osieck tried out a couple more players. We continue to try and attack. Good signs. More work to be done.

Trivia: this was the first meeting between our two countries at senior level.

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