Luke ‘n’ Kim

little niggles, finally!

i’m surprised there haven’t been cries for some football commentary seeing as the olyroos have been playing and the new EPL and A-League seasons are so close… i did watch both the australia vs serbia and the vs argentina matches…

we should’ve beaten serbia, even though we didn’t deserve to… the boys just switched off and were trying to defend for the last twenty instead of playing positively and at the very least keeping possession. against argentina was a different story, all of a sudden the olyroos looked a million times better, playing on the ground, in little triangles in mid-field, not nearly as many long balls…

something i’ve noticed, and i’ve said it before, not only is carney is an excellent player, but he has an element of cleverness that seems to elude most australian national players… he is mentally strong, and has this ability to niggle at the opposing players in a very european way… things like… he re-places the football for free kicks, just a little further forward from where the ref put it… he seemed to unsettle the serbs… just what the socceroos need if we ever come up against a less-than-spotless team in the round of 16 in a world cup for instance?

…but anyway, back to argentina, here we were, holding out the gold medal winners from 4 years ago and we didn’t even look to stressed about it, then they came out after the half time break and were determined to break us down… and did… but it was only one-nil in the end, and there were points in the first half when we could’ve actually stolen it…

i look forward to seeing the match against the ivory coast tonight, but haven’t looked at the table to see if we have a chance of qualifying… oh archie can’t play? big deal. he’s like the new mark viduka, always seems to be a target man, he even had a one-on-one with the argie keeper and shanked it completely… joel griffiths would have been a MUCH better pick… wake up arnie.