Graham Arnold deserves credit for refreshing the ranks with his youthful squad, but he will face justified criticism for Mitch Langerak’s omission.
The last time the Socceroos did something totally unexpected with the goalkeeping gloves, it worked out pretty well.
And so it should. They got it spot on – but they also got it wrong with Mitch Langerak’s omission on Tuesday But then Arnold convinced him to come out of retirement, and from there he has been subjected to a kind of footballing cruelty, with the World Cup – intentionally or not – dangled in front of him like a carrot.He wasn’t used in Australia’s friendlies against New Zealand in September, and most fans assumed he was rated so highly the Socceroos didn’t need to see him in action.
It’s not fair on Langerak, who, with all respect to Redmayne and Vukovic, has been in much better form for far longer – and if it was only third or fourth-choice emergency options they were looking for, that should have been made clear to him months ago.
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