It has been a clunky and mostly unimpressive performance from the Socceroos this year, but coach Graham Arnold says the team is finally ready to click.
Bullish Socceroos coach Graham Arnold believes Australia is mentally and physically ready to reignite its ailing World Cup qualifying campaign.Australia will play UAE for the right to face Peru for a spot in the 2022 Qatar World CupThe match starts at 4am on Wednesday and will be blogged at abc.net.au/sport
Arnold believes a settled build-up, in stark contrast to their disastrous camp in March before back-to-back defeats to Japan and Saudi Arabia, has his team in as good a state as possible for the must-win fixture. A victory over the UAE at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium would send Australia into an intercontinental play-off against Peru on June 14.
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