Minute-by-minute report: The Socceroos have reached the last-chance saloon in Doha where they must beat the UAE to keep alive their World Cup hopes. Join Emma Kemp for updates
It’s squeaky-bum time! The culmination of four years and proverbial blood, sweat and tears. The Socceroos are in Qatar – somewhere they want to be in November but somewhere they decidedly do not want to be now. Their World Cup hopes are hanging by a thread somewhere off Doha’s corniche and only a win against theAustralia
could have avoided this with a couple of more favourable results against opposition they should have beaten. But a third-place finish in the third round behind automatic qualifiers Saudi Arabia and Japan has consigned the national team to this life-and-death playoff. Win here and they play Peru for a spot in the finals. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves because while the UAE might be ranked 68th to Australia’s 42nd recent past tells us the latter has trouble against the former.
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