The match looked like it was destined to go beyond 90 minutes before a fortuitous moment in the last ten minutes. 9WWOS
The Socceroos defeated UAE 2-1 in an Asian qualifying thriller to be one match away from the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
However, UAE levelled the scores within minutes through Caio Canedo, after wingman Harib Abdallah whipped in a cross to find his teammate in prime real estate. "That's how the games go sometimes, you can feel that cagey environment," Irvine told Ten. "We picked our moments well and when we had moments of quality were capitalised on them, and in games like this it will come down to fine margins."We obviously gave away a goal which was disappointing but we knew we had enough in the key moments to win the game and obviously pleased with taking one of them myself.
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