Matildas Triumph Despite Goalkeeping Woes and Mixed News for our Men Abroad

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Hello and welcome to the Aussie Football Passport, your one stop pod for updates

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on your favourite Aussie men and women footballers who are playing their club careers abroad.

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I'm your host Alex and this week's episode brings you the first update

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from the Women's Asian cup, including the Matilda's first game of the tournament.

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Then there is the usual wrap of goals in the right net and wrong

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net unfortunately for one of our men, assists, clean sheets, saves and unfortunately

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some more injury news to bring to you. Let's wait no further and

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get straight into the headlines.

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All right, let's start with the headlines and let's start

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with our Matildas because the goalkeeping crisis continues.

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Jada Wyman suffered a knee injury in training whilst first choice,

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whilst first choice keeper MacKenzie Arnold did not train due

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to car fatigue. According to coach Joe Montemiro, this resulted

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in Morgan Aquino being called into the side to replace Wyman.

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Montemuro revealed that Wyman was set to make her Matilda's

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debut eight years after first being called up to the squad before

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injuries struck in an unfortunate blow for her.

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So massively, massively disappointing.

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Now let's analyze the game briefly because

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the Matildas had a 1 nil victory against the Philippines in the tournament opener

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in Perth. It was a solid victory that was almost two

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nil until a VAR intervention ruled out Hayley Rasso's goal. The opening

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game of the tournament can often be a banana peel for the host and favorite

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side of the tournament, which in this case Matilda as well. They're there or thereabouts

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in terms of favoritism for the silverware. However, the Matildas

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negotiated this game in a true professional fashion. I think it's fair to

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say by getting the win, the Matildas look to attack down

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the left side of the Philippines or the right side of the Matilda's attack.

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So on Hayley Rasso's side, mainly due to Angie

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Beard being deployed at as a makeshift left back, she typically

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plays as a central defender at club level for her current side

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in the A League Women's which is Brisbane Raw. It must be said

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that Angie Beard was exceptional in repelling the Matilda's attacks and

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was beaten only a few times by Rasso and really it made

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the difference there as to why it wasn't more than 1 nil or 2 nil

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if you include the goal that was ruled out by var. We saw

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the big game experience of our front line whilst there was a nod to the

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future in midfield and at the back with Winona Heatley and Claire

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Hunt combining In central defense, Chloe Lincoln was also thrust

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into the spotlight between the sticks due to the injury crisis with the Matilda's

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goalkeepers. As mentioned earlier, we also got to see Mary

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Fowler come on later in the game where she looked right on it straight away.

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Tamika Yallop described her as dancing on the pitch

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in her post match comments and I tend to agree with that.

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Overall it was a win to start the tournament.

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Plenty of things to improve upon but,

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but let's leave it to Joe Montemuro and player

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of the match Caitlin Ford to describe in their post match

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press conference. Do you feel,

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I mean what do you feel? We won one nil. Yeah.

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Controlled game, happy to get it out of the way and we move on

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to the next one. So yeah, great.

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Kathleen. Yeah, congratulations to being the player of

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the match today. So how was the match? My thoughts.

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Yeah, I mean we would have liked to probably score a few more

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goals but like Joe said, we're in control the whole

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game and yeah, it's about building into the tournament. So we, we have

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a lot to work on obviously moving forward, but job done.

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Interaction standard. How was the defense

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sir of Philippine team? The defense

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almost the deep end of Philippine. Yeah, very well organized obviously stayed

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very, very deep. You know, at times made it difficult for

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us break lines. You know, I think it was

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very obvious what they tried to do and you know, to reduce the score line

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and you know they got, they got the success that they

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needed. Joe, what did you think of the way the team was finishing in the

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final third? Only six shots on target. So yeah. Interested in your thoughts around

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the finishing? Yeah, it's the, the,

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the big conundrum in football, isn't it? You know we all talk about

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final third, we all talk about finishing and so on and you know, a lot

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of it's instinct, a lot of it's being a lot smarter in

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the moment, A lot of it's, you know, just having that, that bit of coldness

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in front of the, in front of the box. Can we be better? Yeah,

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absolutely. But we're getting there, we're getting in and

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around the areas and, and as I said, the more we, the more we grow

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into the tournament, the more we, we control these moments, the more we'll,

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we'll, we'll benefit for it. But you know, again we control the situation.

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That was the most important thing. Okay, thank you. Thanks to football Australia

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and the AFC for the audio of the post match

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press conference there. Now just to let you know, the Matilda's next game is

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against Iran on Thursday evening on the Gold coast,

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so make sure you check your local guides because of course daylight savings is

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still in effect on the east coast of Australia

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and Central Australia as well. So that might make those

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time differences just a little bit different, of course. And then of course our fans

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over in Western Australia being two hours behind Queensland.

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Now let's head around the grounds at the Asian cup and on

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Monday, South Korea beat Iran 30 on the gold

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coast in the other game from Group A. In Group B,

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North Korea beat Uzbekistan by the same scoreline and China bucked

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the Trend with a 2 nil win over Bangladesh. Both of those games

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were held in Sydney on Tuesday. The next fixtures

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up on Wednesday are Japan playing Chinese Taipei

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and Vietnam playing India to round out Match Day one

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for the Women's Asian Cup. And we will bring you all

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the latest, of course, of the next two match days in the

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next episode of the Aussie Football Passport.

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Now let's round out the headlines with some injury news and

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in particular with an update on Mohamed Toure because he was

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substituted off after nine minutes due to injury in Norwich

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City's two nil win against Sheffield Wednesday. In midweek championship

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action after undergoing scans, Norwich coach Philippe Clement

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confirmed that Toure has a groin injury that

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will sideline him for four to six weeks. This means

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he will miss the March internationals against Curacao and Cameroon.

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It's not great news, but it could have been a lot worse, I think

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it's fair to say with the way that he went down and of course was

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substituted off after only nine minutes of a match. So let's hope Mo is

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able to get back up to speed ASAP because he is pretty much

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nailed on as the starting striker for this Socceroo squad with the

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form he was in before this injury. Now, speaking of

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strikers with injuries, another one of the Socceroos hopefuls

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went down over the weekend. It was Nick d'. Agostino. He went down specifically

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deep into injury time of the first half of Brisbane RAW's

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one all draw with Perth Glory in the A League on the weekend.

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He clutched at his knee and did not return for the second half.

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The club announced that they are seeking a second opinion on his knee

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injury and further news will be made available after the release of this

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episode. So we'll update you in next week's episode.

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Let's hope for the best for Nick and that he is able to

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recover soon, but knee injuries, never a good thing are they?

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Particularly with Nick's game being quite a powerful one and relying

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on his pace and it does beg the question whether he did come back to

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Brisbane Raw. Slightly underdone. I personally think he did.

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Anyway, that's it for the headlines this week and the

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injury wrap. Let's move on to the weekly wrap for our

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men's players this week.

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Weekly wrap time. And as I made mention at the end of the

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headlines there, of course our ladies are currently on international duty with

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club football to return next week for the ones that didn't make the

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Matilda squad. And I will of course bring details

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of those ladies playing abroad that didn't make the Matilda squad in next week's

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episode alongside the Women's Asian Cup Rap

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of course now to our men playing abroad. Let's start in the championship as

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I like to do every week. Cameron Burgess played all of Swansea City's 10

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draw with Preston North End in midweek. He then played all of

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Swansea City's 30 loss to Ipswich Town at the weekend.

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Ouch. That is not ideal for Swansea who are falling

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away towards the bottom of the table there. Nesri Erin Kunder

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played a full game for watford in their 2 nil loss to Ipswich

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Town. He then played 69 minutes for Watford in their

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21 win against Bristol City at the weekend.

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Adrian Sega Chic was subbed on in the 42nd minute of Portsmouth's

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21 loss to Wrexham. He then played a full game for Portsmouth

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as they lost 1 nil to Hull City. Unfortunately, Sega Chic

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was at fault for the goal, conceding possession deep in his own half

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with an attempted flick leading to his coach John Mousino

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calling him out in the post match interview. In better news

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however, Hayden Matthews was on the bench for Portsmouth in that

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game so hopefully we'll see him get some minutes over the coming weeks

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for his side. Callum elder played the first half

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of Derby County's 42 loss to Hull City in

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midweek and he scored an own goal. Ouch. That is

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the one that I alluded to at the top of the show there.

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Our Aussie duo at QPR made substitute

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appearances in their sides a heavy five nil loss to Southampton in midweek

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action. Daniel Benny was sent on at halftime whilst Keely Adamson got

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onto the pitch at the hour mark. Then at the weekend Daniel Benny

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started and was substituted off at halftime whilst Jalen Pearman got

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six minutes for qpr. He in their two nil loss to Sheffield United.

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That rounded out the action in the championship. Now let's go

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a division blow to League one where Joe Gauchi started and

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played a full game in goal for Port Vale and he also kept a clean

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sheet in their 10 win against Northampton Town in midweek.

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Then backed up at the weekend playing the full game in goal for Port Vale

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again in their 10 draw, this time with Luton Town.

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Alex Robertson scored the first goal for Cardiff City in their four nil

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win against Doncaster. Overs he started and played the full game.

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The midfielder now has four goals this season for Cardiff

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City. Caleb Watts started and played the full game for Plymouth Argyle in

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their one nil loss to Rotherham United. Let's head north of

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the border to Scotland where Ryan Strain contributed to a clean sheet

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for Dundee United as they drew nil all with aberdeen. He got 32

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minutes as a substitute to be precise, his teammates Ashley

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Maynard Brewer and Zach Sapsford also played with goalkeeper Ashley

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playing the whole game and Zach getting 58 minutes.

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Nicholas Milanovic did not make it off the bench for Aberdeen in

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that one. Martin Boyle came on in the 75th minute for Hibernian

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to pick up an assist for Socceroo's hopeful Ante Suto in a

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30 draw with Dundee FC. Jack Idaho played at 75

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minutes for Hibbs whilst Suto played 24 minutes as

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a second half substitute. Keanu Backus played 82

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minutes for Saint Marion in a 1 all draw with Livingston who Ryan McGowan

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played the full game for. Then getting back to our friends

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at Dundee United. Ryan Strain and Ashley Maynard Brewer played

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full games for them as they lost two nil to Motherwell at the weekend.

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Their teammate Zach Sapsford came on at the hour mark to help overturn the

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result but to no avail. Oscar Priestman was a second half substitute for

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Motherwell getting 19 minutes. Johnny Katrumbas was not

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in the match day squad for the fourth consecutive time. Now there's no

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news as to whether he's injured, whether he's been dropped. He hasn't been suspended,

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I can confirm that. So not too sure what's going on there with Johnny.

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Hopefully everything's okay and he can get back on the pitch because there is a

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fullback position available in that Socceroo squad if you want to and if

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you can get some game time there at Motherwell. Now to Germany

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where Jackson Irvine started and played a full game for Saint Paoli as his side

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secured an important win in their quest to avoid relegation from the

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Bundesliga which is the German top flight by beating Hoffenheim 1 nil.

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St. Pauli have won three of their last four games as they

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build some momentum to close out this season and

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of course avoid relegation. Conor Metcalfe came on in the

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75th minute for St. Paoli in his first appearance since late September.

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Fantastic news for Connor there and it might

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well put him back into soccero's contention, you'd imagine.

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Now to Spain where Matt Ryan started and played a crucial role for Levante,

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keeping a clean sheet as his side beat the Deportivo

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Alavez Sunil. He made five saves as Levante

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snapped a four game losing streak to help in their fight for top

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flight survival. Alma Bill came off the bench at

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halftime to assist Castiglion's only goal in a 31 loss to Lassing

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Santander. Now to Croatia where Fran Karachic played

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74 minutes for Osjek in a 2 nil win against

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Vukovar 91 which saw his side move

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out of the relegation places. Very good stuff for Fran and his teammates

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there in Croatia. Now to the Netherlands where Jordi Boss played until the

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62nd minute as Feyenoord lost 2 nil to

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FC Twente. Arden Krustic and Rhys Bozanowski both

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played until the 62nd minute of Heracles Alamello's

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31 loss to League leaders PSV Eindhoven.

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Max Ballard played until the 73rd minute for

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NAC Breda in a 30 loss to Telstar.

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Now to Austria where Jacob Italiano started

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and played 89 minutes for Grazer AK as they beat Raid

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2 1. Jed Drew got 27

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minutes as a second half substitute in Hartberg's nil

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or draw with Red Bull Salzburg. Now to Denmark where Paul Itzo started

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and played the full game in goal for Randers as they had a 21

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win against Cop Hagen. Musa Toure was a second half

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substitute getting 32 minutes. Now to

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Norway where Gianni Stenzness was sent off in the 36th minute

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of Vikings 2 nil win over Sapsburg which was their final friendly

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before the resumption of the Norwegian League next weekend. I don't think

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the suspension will affect his league availability,

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but we will find out next week if he is in the matchday

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squad. Out to Cyprus where Milos Degenerek came on

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at 86 minutes for Apollwell Nicosia in their 32

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loss to AEL Limassol. Now to Czechia where

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Garen Qual was substituted on in the 67th minute

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of Sparta Prague's 52 win against Bunnik Ostrava.

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Now to Northern America where Patrick Yazbek

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was substituted on in the 78th minute of Nashville's

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heavy 50 win against Atletico Ottawa in

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the return leg of their CONCACAF cup match in midweek.

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The result sees his side through to the quarterfinals

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of the competition, so congratulations to Patrick and Nashville there.

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He then played a full game for Nashville as they returned to MLS

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action in their nil or draw with Dallas at the weekend.

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Kyrols played a full game for D.C. united as they lost one

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nil to Austin. Aidan O' Neill played 83 minutes of New York

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City FC's 21 win against Philadelphia. Kyle Truan

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came on for O' Neill as a substitute for the final minutes

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of the match. Lucas Harrington started, played the full game and

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grabbed a goal for his side Colorado Rapids in their two nil win over

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the Portland Timbers. Now speaking of goals,

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Arief Piol started, played 81 minutes and got his side second

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and what turned out to be the match winning goal as they beat

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the Seattle Sounders to one. Archie Goodwin

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got 13 minutes as a second half substitute for Charlotte in

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their three nil loss to LA Galaxy. Now rounding out

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the men's weekly rap action in Japan as I always do

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here on the Aussie football passport with Kasuni

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Yengi being substituted onto the pitch in the 81st

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minute for Ceres or Osaka as they lost one nil in to

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Bivarin Nagasaki. Jason Guerrier

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started and played a full game for Albrechts niigata in their 2

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nil win over FC Emibari in the J2 league.

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That is it for the weekly wrap. Next up,

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I'll be back to give you the Players of the Week and wrap up

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this week's episode.

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All right, Players of the Week and let's start

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with our Women's Player of the Week. And although Caitlin Ford got the official Player

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of the Match for the Matilda's opener against

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the Philippines, my Player of the Week is Sam Kerr. To have

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the pressure of captaining the Matildas as well as being the main goal threat is

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a lot of pressure to have on your shoulders, let alone playing in your hometown

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in a tournament being hosted in your home country.

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Kerr, as we well know by now, did not crack and

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produced what turned out to be the match winning goal from across provided

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by Claire Wheeler and headed on by Ford. Wheeler herself was

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unlucky not to get this award with an absolutely outstanding performance in

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midfield to press her case for selection in the next game. I think it's

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going to be difficult for Kyra Cooney Cross to get her place back with the

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performance that Claire provided there. We saw a pop up a number of times

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on that right hand side of the Matilda's attack in that rotating

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midfield and it was really refreshing to see Claire take her form from

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the WSL into the green and gold of the Matildas.

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I'm certainly looking forward to see what she's got for us for

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the rest of this Asian cup tournament. Now to the Men's Player

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of the Week. It goes to none other than Riley McGree, who scored for

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Middlesbrough in a one all draw with Leicester City in midweek.

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It was his fifth goal of the season as he goes through an absolute

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purple patch after his return from injury. He then backed it up in

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Middlesbrough's 31 win over Birmingham on Monday

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night. He played 74 minutes in that game. And for

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the love of God, please, please, please stay fit Riley,

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because we desperately need you for this Men's World Cup. You just

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get the feeling he's going to be so crucial to the soccero's

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chances of progressing from the group stage all right,

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well, that's it for another week of the Aussie football passport. I hope you enjoyed

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this episode. Please share this show. If anyone you think may like it,

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that would be greatly appreciated. It gets the name of the podcast out

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there and into all those funny algorithms and however they work, I'm not quite

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sure, but just keep talking about the show and maybe the algorithm will

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pick it up. Also, make sure you check out the special episode I brought out

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last week on the weekend, to be specific, previewing the Matilda's Asian

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cup campaign as well. It's a great episode. Paletti was a fantastic guest

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and full of information that you may not have known

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about the tournament as well. So if you've got 45 minutes spare,

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check that one out. Anyway, I'll stop rambling on.

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Thanks for listening and I'll catch you in the next episode. Goodbye for now.