Poppa got it wrong ( again)

 Poppa was a genius against Turkey however his selections made no sense in the next three games.

Let us just take the game against Egypt.

Behich was awful. He was constantly beaten down the ,left side and was responsible for the goal against us. Irvine was equally bad. He gave away silly freekicks and turned over the ball too often. We rarely looked like scoring a goal because of the formation. The substitutes made no impact and I thought were brought on for the penalty shootout. Why didn't specialist penalty takers take the penalties .Why were the three central defenders selected?

What was it with Irankunda. He played a blinder against turkey and scored, could have scored again as a WINGER. He was then selected as a striker. He is 5' 7"  thus he is rarely going to score from a cross. We had no creativity in the midfield. This was always going to occur after Robertson was told to go home.

On the positive side we have a young side. Beach is great. Our central defenders are superb. Bos is something special. We need a right back.

Give Robertson a chance in the midfield as we  need it.

Volpato and Yengi  should be partnered as should Irankunda and Toure.

We have to look forward to the Asian cup and we have the players to attack so we should.

Poppa is too defensive and thus we give our opposition too much respect ( and ball in matches ). It is ironic that Ange would be ideal now.

I should add I am sick of the socceroos being underdogs. We have the talent to be better. So when teams are in the same group they fear us and are worried they will get beaten.

The Asian cup will make or break Poppa.