Australia V Nigeria - Highlights - 17nov07

[marzell250]

Nicky Carle put a man of the match performance that day, Oseik put him on the team!

[kgslightning]

jeez we played well in this game

heaps better than vs korea lol

[SteyrAUG2009]

Scotty Mac is so frustrating. He always scores for Celtic but he can never put the ball into the back of the net for Australia. Every game he always comes close.

[chrisfur2]

nice as goal,

[ndy400]

martins not at inter milan hes at newcastle

[controlanddelete]

gone to wofsburg now

[DILIORA2]

wtf this is australia highlight not nigeria - australia highlight

[xsxtxjx]

lol @ 3:30 "i think youll find thats a good save. if you see it from behind, the ball moves, and that was a good save". what the hell? haha

[chasersbf]

Bosnich is the worst comentator

[nate2611]

ha ha dam rite fucking shocking

[wackycamper32]

If I remember right it was at Craven Cottage. And it is Mark Bosnich doing special comments.

[LtBarnes2007]

What ground were they playing at, did they travel 2 Nigeria???

[banxor]

lol yeah the river thames is in nigeria, that is in london at Q.P.R home ground.

[Beamer22]

Is that Bosnich as the special comments

[traumaticinc]

lol whatever gonzo

[0077725]

your "african power" was no match for our aussie power. ha ha!

[chicken1133]

LOOK AT THE SCORE BORED!!

[ftgpete]

i think mark bosnich is still taking cocaine, he is the worst commentator. Both teams played well, it took a great goal for australia to win it Carney

[DanielLukic]

Go the Socceroos!!!

[foxychocho]

i guess these are australian highlights

[chicken1133]

Nigeria didn't have much highlights... Australia controlled most of the match.....

[Pimp012434]

its abit sad Nigeria didn't stick with this manager in the African Cup they woulda Raged

[Pimp012434]

is it me or these highlights are bias lol i swear Nigeria Had WAY more chances.............

[CHISA123454321]

GOOOO SUPA EAGLES GO GOOOOO

[chicken1133]

jesus, schwarzer is class, so is carney!!!

[Monaro1990]

Lol most people in Australia think Carney is a waste of space.

True that this goal shows how good he can be.

[chicken1133]

eaxtly, he was offered by bayern muncih!!!

[folasheva]

you're such an idiot lordjonty123 for makin such a statement about african player u knw.ur so ignorant about urself,human nature and life tself.ur mentlity and approach to tngs are as minimal as it could get.go watch ur interesting matches den.bloody racist.

[ausderek44]

this was a great match, end to end stuff! chances for both teams but carney's rocket unstoppable! carle impressed and now he's at bristol city!

[deanie1011]

Is anyone with me when I say Bosnich is a absolutly shit commentator, omg, watching the game, it was so irratating hearing him, not only did he interrupt simon so much, but he kept stuttering his words and repeated everything Simon said, just in a different sentence. Maybe some more experience in commentating might help, but that night he was an absolute shocker.

[tjo176]

mate i totally agree, not only that but he got numerous names wrong, including David Carney's just after he scored. i wasn't impressed also how the commentating featured numerous talks about mark bosnich himself rather then the game

[deanie1011]

I personally prefer Simon commentating alone like he did at the WC, that was first class.

I think the most irritating thing about Bosnich was how he stated the freakin obvious.

"He made the save, and kept his goal intact"

No Shit!

[lordjonty123]

that was a good match i think nigria should of tried harder

[JasonTerranova1994]

ROFL Carney looks like Gavin Harris from GOAL

[demedji]

if we wouldn't had played wit our 2nd team we would have kicked yo asses for sure so stop thinkin u r better than us...

let me thank u like eterpete 4 this nice training game..lol... try 2 beat our 1st team wit kanu,mikel,utaka, etc.. than we talk again but about OUR win

[Rtadros]

LOL we beat a full strength england, u think we cant beat yous? man get outta here. haha, what a joke

[demedji]

u aint know shit about our team thatz why u think australia could beat us...lol

[Rtadros]

umm jon obi mikel, utaka, martins, kanu,  Agbonlahor i know more than u think buddy :)

[demedji]

wow u know the names but nothin about our team chemistry and stuff like that and i aint yo buddy mayn

[Rtadros]

lol dickhead number 1 its an expression i dont even know u or give a fk about u so ur right im not ur buddy, number 2 i understand nigerias chemistry perfectly as i watched them win the u 17s world cup.. they have technique and physical ability but when it comes to tactics they are not as good as the other african teams such as cameroon or ivory coast

[demedji]

we were 3rd in the africa cup could australia get that far in africa? i don't think so and our U17s won the world cup...

i'm finished wit u cause it's stupid to me to discuss wit a fool who aint knows shit about football...

[Rtadros]

HAHAHAHAHA a fool? ive been watching and playing the game since i was 5 dikhead, 3rd dont mean shit if u havent won it, and u guys were lucky to win the u 17s, u beat spain on penalties, and bojan kirkic wasnt even in the line up... i guarentee u if we played yous both full strength we'd win again. discussion is over talk to someone else cause i'll ignore the fk outta u

[spliffveron]

That's so wrong. Cameroun bully their way to victory,and Ivory Coast are just a decent team that plays just normal footie. Nigeria is by far the best team in Africa,and we'll beat Australia comfortably in a competitive game,that's a no stress. For the U-17,Spain were the only team that showed us reasonable competition.

[Rtadros]

ye ok CAMEROON which is how u spell it won the gold medal at the olympic games in 2000 if u remember clearly, and ivory coast produce some of the best players in the world today, u know drogba? the machine who keeps shevchenko a former european player of the year on the bench, you'd see him alot in the epl :)

[spliffveron]

A typical anglophonian would always say CAMEROUN. Did you ever watch the Atlanta Olympics in 1996? Nigeria has been World U-17 Champions 3 times,2 Silvers and a bronze in the U-20's,Olympic Gold medalists once (that answers my question above),and of course went to the World Cup for the first time in 1994 and won second best entertaining team behind eventual champions Brazil (which is no embarassment). If Drogba is a machine,then Eto's would be some weapon that would destroy the universe.

[spliffveron]

No doubt Drogba is good,but I've seen more clinical players in the past from the African continent for Drogba to daze me like he does to you: Theophile Abega,Raber Madja,Roger Milla,George Weah,Abedi Pele,Henry Nwosu,Ladgjer Beloumi,Okocha,Ahmed Elkass,Titi Camara,Rashidi Yekini,and Eto'o (who would always be better than your Drogba).

[Rtadros]

number 1 he doesnt daze me number 2 i was giving u an example of the world class players in stunning form in this moment of time, number 3 i dont give a shit what u say cause at the end of the day aust won period wether nigeria had their full strength playing or australia. make all the excuses in the world u want.

[spliffveron]

Of course Australia won the "training match" no doubt,playing such a game without key men is no excuse for defeat,afterall its called the NATIONAL TEAM.If I can recall the last time we played Australia in a "REAL" battle,it was at the Sydney 2000 Olympics,tell me the scores after your very thorough research.And ur question was- U know Drogba? That is being SPECIFIC. guess U can now give a shit!!!

[Rtadros]

LOL yous beat us at the death when we came back from 2-0 down and equalised, then yous beat us 3-2. u know what i pray to god nigeria is in the same group as us at the world cup so we can settle this, without u bitching and making excuses saying that game was a training match. keep in mind we had key players out of that "training match" too :)

[spliffveron]

U rather not pray that prayer,this is not cricket at all. Don't get me wrong,Australia has very good players,my favourite being Cahill:He has the die hard thing to his game.I love ur team,and respect their style.But the Nigerian team is very strong at the moment,it would be a very good game,but I just have a feeling we would win such a game.U guyz completely outplayed us in that game,but we're never serious with friendlies.

[Rtadros]

then thats the difference between the mentality of both teams, we take EVERY game serious and have a never say die attitude, ur players would prob be more technically gifted as individuals but as a tactical unit, aust can be very dangerous

[spliffveron]

True. But sometimes detemination and resilience pays off just as it did for Italy against U guyz at the last World Cup. The Nigerian team sometimes resorts to these in hard times.But no matter how serious a team takes a friendly game,it can never be the same level of seriousness in a semi-final game of a significant tourney.Nerves rack,mistakes come to the fore,good players missing penalty kicks,so much drama,so much tension,and in the end the very tactical unit may not win.

[Rtadros]

man its in the australians blood to have determination and resilience what u talking bout? dont u remember the aust - japan game. we have this never say die attitude even if we're losing 2-0. if u saw our domestic league the a-league, youd see those teams doing that all ther time.

[lordjonty123]

who gives a shit about african players

[spliffveron]

U of course,that's why U had time to reply.

[forever444]

u guys are so cliched :)

[DILIORA2]

hey u know nothing about football stop making a fool of urself. who is drogba compared 2 the likes jj okacha, kanu nwankwo in his days, martins at inter milan 2 metion but a few.drogba is not a play maker.

[Rtadros]

stop talking rubbish, when the fk did i say drogba is a play maker idiot! i was talking about the african players who were in fine form at the time and dont even compare urself with me ill destroy u in knowledge of football, ive played and watched the game all my life.

[DILIORA2]

well, ive never watched and play football all my life hahaha. i can see u have a lot of mouth, i dont ague with basket mouth like u. im coming 2 adelaide this december hope 2 meet in field and show u how we do it. but i dont blame u. its never a news when a lion kills a goat but its a big news when a goat kills a lion. the bottom line is that australia won but u shouldnt compare our players with Drogba, he is just lucky and got media by his side.

[Rtadros]

see not only are u a dumb ass but u cant read at the same time. i never compared drogba to any of ur players, i was just saying he was in fine form at the time. end of discussion, u can reply to this comment but ill simply ignore u. have a nice life :)

[DILIORA2]

stop talking shit! u cannot match nigeria with any team in africa. so atop talking what u dont know.

[serbijabro]

we have better players. Carney's on the rise after playing for Sydney, Scott Mcdonald's been on fire for Celtic lately, Nick Carle's a future star. Add in Cahill, Bresciano, Emerton, Grella and Viduka, Kewell. If all these guys are fit and injury free then we should have no problem in qualifying for 2010

[lordjonty123]

but cahill,viduka,grella and bresciano were all injured and we still played well

[eterpete]

You guys played our second team. No Kanu and Utaka (Portsmouth) No Obi Mikel (Chelsea)etc the guys who played(minus Obafemi and a few) were trying to book there places in the national team. Thank you Socceroos for the 'training' match!lol

We'll deal with you guys later...stay at 40 on fifa ranking pls

[LUFCkewell10]

This is to 'eterpete'

Look at the 1st team players that we (Socceroos)were missing. You should know at least 2-3 of these names: Marco Bresciano, Vinnie Grella, Mark Viduka (haven't heard of him? You're mad)), Tim Cahill (Everton - same deal as Viduka), etc. You had 3 big names missing - we had at least 4-5.

[Rtadros]

i can understand the bitter taste u have in your mouth of defeat.. one other thing, we had cahill,bresciano, grella and viduka all unavailable so stop making excuses.

[lordjonty123]

you fuck cocks

[Akumastarr]

So your excuse is that Nigeria weren't playing their 1st team so you expected a loss. That is not an excuse. All that excuse points out is that Nigeria have no depth in their squad and that without the 3 players you mentioned, your squad is crap, great national team you have there...

[voicemail080]

we dominated play shame we cudnt score doe, oh well

[LUFCkewell10]

Don't think that you lost because YOU were missing star players - we dominated you and possession, and when we have our full strength side against you next time, we can do the same! You still have a great team, though. Players like Martins only come along once in a generation of footballers.

[Electricmagic16]

aussie aussie aussie OI OI OI!!!!!!!!!

[reimono]

HELL YEAHHH GO Aussiessss .. thanx for posting this dude, i had to watch this.

[spel6]

Football is the largest played sport in Australia

[blockheadman]

wait a minute. this was on foxtel? I could not find it when i went through cable tv guide

btw FUCK SBS for not having enough money to keep sooceroos games free to air & fuck the government for not putting socceroos games on the anti siphon list

[reimono]

U SAID IT my friend!

[Rtadros]

that's why you vote labor this w.end.. their putting all national team on the anti-siphoning list and pumping 32 million into the national development plan

[nabmeg]

kevin 07

[mohammadtitu]

its gud

[Charline88]

And another question: the commentators keep refering to "socceroos", is that australia's team nickname in soccer? I find it cute ! lol Kiss from France.

[rammsteinr0x]

Yes you would be right.

[Charline88]

Ok. Cute nickname then!

[reimono]

yeah its just a thing we have here, for every sporting team in australia (well most of then anyway), they have nicknames for 'em. eg: socceroo (Football), Boomers (Basketball), Wallabies (Rugby union) kangaroos (rugby league) and so on :)

[Charline88]

Is football that big in Australia?

[RoarFan23]

I'm afraid it only ranks about the 3rd or 4th most popular domestic sport behind Aussie Rules, Rugbly league and Rugby Union. However internationally it's one of the most popular sports here, if not THE most popular. It's also the most popular youth sport here.

[TeutonicKnights]

This was a fantastic result, particularly in response to criticisms of our performances in the Asian cup. The asian cup is behind us now, what matters is winning our games in the asian qualifying stages for the 2010 world cup. This victory, though it is a friendly, strengthens our hope that we won't be waiting another 32 years for a world cup berth.

Aussie Aussie Aussie

[TeutonicKnights]

Great to see Harry Kewell starring again for Australia, he really brings invaluable experience to the Australian line-up. What is the greatest player we have is Mark Schwarzer. It is fair to say that he really has been the difference for Australia. His stunning saves & clean-sheets was what separated Australia from Nigeria. What we also need to work on is our preparation for the 2010 world cup. Socceroos, 21 million australians are behind you!

[reimono]

OY OY OY! :D

[mitdx]

Not to be pessimistic or anything, but as a nigerian, I have to say we played without heart. the highlights are full of australian chances so how can anyone say that we played well?

we couldn't even manage a draw...how sad

I dunno what berti vogts is doing, but even the players, a few of which were maybe fringe players - did not play with any hunger.

Great Goal by Nicky Carle, but I still think that nigeria could've done better.

[mazzoan]

Trust me my man Nigeria played with heart. The only thing that let us down was midfield. Australia dominated us in the middle of the park.

[triplelite]

Haha, I think that was the f-bomb by Nicky Carle, but otherwise a pretty good performance by Australia. What a goal! Entertaining match, cheers for the upload

[Martin199169]

FIFA ranking has got australia ranked unfairly, if we can beat nigeria then we should at least be in the 30's..Nigeria are a great side even though they didnt have Utaka and Kanu which are their only other good players..

[chicken1133]

yeah, the reason were low on the rankings is coz we dont get as much games as other nations!

[polumide]

the defeat notwithstanding, Nigeria are still a strong team. They played well, only that luck deprived them of victory. They have beaten Australia more than once. Another encounter between will not between bot teams will not give Australia cause to rejoice too much. All the same, this was a fantastic and entertaining match. Good luck to both sides.

[matthewrowles]

Top goal.

[angel199x]

lol nicky carl u potty mouth.

[c3030328]

cheers 4 the upload

[hammertym]

Cheers for the post mate. Didn't make it to the game! Nigeria can fall into the group of teams that we have taken down :)

[DanTube2008]

Is that Mark Bosnich commentating? If so he sounds like he's on Speed and that wouldn't be suprising.

[ziegheil0264]

that`s John Bosnich, his twin brother.

[RoarFan23]

No it is Mark Bosnich, and screw his persecutors because I thought he commentated very well. No surprise since he is a smart chap.

[chicken1133]

WHAT THE FUCK DDE,THAT IS NOT FAIR!!! he was probably the greatest goalier that the aussies ever had! and you sit hear  ripping on him of what he did like 6 ears ago? your a cunt!

[DanTube2008]

it was a joke, geez... I would have said the same thing about Ben Cousins or Andrew Johns. Don't know if he's a smart chap though, I don't know too many smart chaps who have screwed up their lives as bad as he did.

[pistola80]

I was at the game and yes, it was very entertaining. We played very well and we deserved the win BUT we still have a lot of work to do. We are still finding it way too hard to put the ball in the net. If it wasn't for some amazing saves by Schwarzer it would have been a very different result indeed.

[jakeisagood]

this was not a good performance by either side but nigeria can play alot better and i mean alot

[serks]

Where was Martins and his handspring Frontflip and all that. Geez he's a great player.

Anyway guys from all the way over in Nigeria, good game, thanks for the Friendly and we look forward to our next match.

[GoldenBadboy]

what a fantastic game, go aussies, what a cracker from carney

[liverpool4glory]

i'll agree: it was a very entertaining game. I'm aussie and even i'll admit that nigeria weren't playing at the best. except maybe their keeper at times

[daveibukun]

This is the worst performance i've ever seen by Nigeria, absolutely pathetic. From what i am seeing, it looks like we might not get past drogba and the Ivory coast in the first round of the african nations cup. Typical of the nigerian FA, making pathetic decisions in terms of coach hiring. What a shame.

[beanny55555]

dont worry Nigeria got dat group

nd they gonna stop the ivorians

[daveibukun]

I can't believe we lost to Australia, i know we didn't have our best players around, but its no excuse to loose to the aussies especially on a neutral ground. That's why i was never a fan of our coach in the first place, his record is pathetic, they should have put a world class coach there instead.

[Akumastarr]

I think you are selling us a bit short buddy. Much to your disbelief, we do have a talented squad, sure, not the best squad out there but a good squad that can do great things. You shouldn't feel ashamed you lost to us, you were just unlucky. Great game anyway.

[justy921000]

Go Australia!!!

[yuanator]

LOL is that Mark Bosnich in commentary?

[Walshyman]

It's always frustrated me how so many people ask what happened during the Asian Cup. Considering that most of the socceroos play in English weather, the answer should be obvious.

[Impossible71]

Brilliant game, fabulous goal. Fans really got value there. I hope both teams make it to South Africa in 2010 because they both have much to offer.

[Impossible71]

Wow! This looked like a thrilling game. Virile football from Australia and touches of class from Nigeria. Lovely goal from Carle, it was goal of appropriate quality to settle such an excellent contest. Hope both these teams make 2010 because they both have much to contribute.

[yuanator]

David CARNEY, our ex-Sydney FC midfielder.

[khaz0r]

Australia played better in this game than they did in the whole of the Asian Cup

[baxta69]

awsome work boys, with ollies and roos doin well, hopefully we can keep it goin into next year when we start our road to 2010! Bring back Guus!!!

[pecks2]

Good performance by the guys. I thought we'd miss Grella in the middle, but we handled things pretty well without him. Carle was impressive, hopefully he can build on this. He has great potential.

[embeleshow]

good game. Nigeria's goalkeeper got a workout.

Nigeria definitely needs work on their transition game before Ghana '08.

[Mikelobi]

good game for australia, apart from martins and odemwingie we did not have any core player.

[mazzoan]

That's the point my man We had to get rid of the bad eggs on our team. Although our players were clumsy and naive they were hungry just like the stars of USA '94. Australia are a great team and I hve no shame in losing to them but the future looks bright for us.

[lazylink]

wow australia played really well.

[KnightwinG07]

game game aussies, nigeria u are a disgrace!

[gwono]

australia looked very impressive.

were we really that dominant?

[ykickamoocow]

I personally think that in 2 years time Australia will have the stongest football team in our history. Watching the Olroos (Australians Under 23's team) play and then watching the Socceroos play has given me alot of confidence about Australia's future. We must remember that for the Nigerian game Australia was missing players like Cahill, Grella and Bresciano all of whom are very skilled players. Bring on 2010

[glra2222]

my god this was impressive - best game ive seen from australia - i think based on the last friendly against argentina and this one we are definitely starting to play to the same standards as many top class teams.

Some of the passing and one-twos were just brilliant and reminded me of some top-flight clubs in england. David Carney has shown yet again the exciting player he is.

[IRNIRN]

what a goal by Carney, why did he choose to go to Sheffield united by the way? he is a greater player than that.

[novacastrianpanther]

We would of done better if we had a coach and Tim Cahill!!!

[JayFCAK47]

*Unless that coach is Frank Farina or Graham Arnold

[nrou5698]

that goal was reminisent of chipperfields wonderstrike against south africa in 2005.

sydney fc till i die.

klinsmann can fuck off - must get a resident coach - will houllier/jol/troussier? move to sydney?

[Mitchacho]

or we could go all out and bring in "the special one". that would be the day

[Fenwickinho]

Carney, Carle, Schwarzer, Emerton & Kewell were the standouts. Great Game!

[Phil28168]

What a goal from Carney! Love it!

[echowarrior1]

Jay - you're a legend mate! I living in Japan, I get no aussie football so your posts are much appreciated

[hachibeach151]

Beautiful.

hb151

[soccaking12562]

they should of played this friendly against nigernia in australia

[Cowboysfan06]

If this was played in Australia, it would have been likely both sides would have been playing there B sides, or even there C sides.

[hachibeach151]

Well, that's all moot now. (At least till the next match.) A win is a win.

hb151

[w33nie]

^ what he said

spam the thumbs down next to his comment!!!!!!!!

[Mitchacho]

why? both squads are made up primarily of europe-based players. if it was in australia nigeria would be even more depleted, and they'd probably be playing the a-league's best

[victorytillidie]

Looks like Carle had a good game too.

[chooksterownedu]

I think Nicky Carle proved his worth as a starting XI player. Great Game. Good goal too, but there was probably 3 other situations where Carney had a crack, but clearly the better option would have been to pass to the free man square in front of goal. Best game the Aussies have had for some time. Schwarzer was great as well.

[duffer11]

you legend thanks so much for this.

[kiparey]

most underrated team in world football

[macchilavel]

Super, super Dave

Super, super Dave

Super David Carney!

that is all.

[meccanised]

OMG ! what a cracker by davo!!

[trev79]

great game, great crowd! luv it!

[HaiYena]

Super fast upload

[charchar207]

Thnx for the fast upload