♔ ♕ ♚ ♛ Australia U17/U20/U23 National Team Tournaments & Discussion Thread ♔ ♕ ♚ ♛

[grazorblade]

Line ups for both teams?

something like this

Australia U23 vs Croatia U21 live score, H2H and lineups | Sofascore

Australia U23 Croatia U21 live score (and video online live stream) starts on 19 Mar 2025 at 17:30 UTC time in U23 Friendly Games, World.

www.sofascore.com

keeley adamson at left back mind u

 

[grazorblade]

Keeley adamson scores the winner

 

[grazorblade]

Croatia were a year younger than us. But it was still a pretty impressive team we beat - the starting xi 3002 minutes this season in croatia, 1556 in BIH, 681 in Switzerland, 194 in the eredivisie, 886 in the Austrian Bundesliga and 2475 in the Jupiler league

 

[MoorePark]

Scrap the system!

 

[SouthernMariner]

Thanks for the report and updates Grazorblade, I gave up and went to sleep. Sounds like a very experimental lineup.

 

[Pasquali]

Goal highlights

Australia U23 1-0 Croatia U21 - Yaya Dukuly 54'

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Video was uploaded to Streamin.me on Mar 19, 2025.

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Australia U23 1-[1] Croatia U21 - Luka Tunjic 56'

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Video was uploaded to Streamin.me on Mar 19, 2025.

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Australia U23 [2]-1 Croatia U21 - Kealey Adamson 90'+1'

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Video was uploaded to Streamin.me on Mar 19, 2025.

streamin.me

 

[Barca4life]

Is there a way you can watch the replay of the whole game?

 

[Beretta]

something like this

Australia U23 vs Croatia U21 live score, H2H and lineups | Sofascore

Australia U23 Croatia U21 live score (and video online live stream) starts on 19 Mar 2025 at 17:30 UTC time in U23 Friendly Games, World.

www.sofascore.com

keeley adamson at left back mind u

As i expected, Croatia's Under 21s side.

i only recognized Luka Vuskovic (Tottenham's Loanee) & Zvonarek. A lot of regular players missing, and new faces.


"There were a lot of substitutions in the second half and in this difficult weather we had a lot of problems considering that we could only make six substitutions, and some players had problems with cramps and barely performed. But it was a good test with a team that is two years older than our generation.
We saw how much better the Australians looked today in that physical sense, especially in the last 10 minutes because they had difficult conditions like us, but they physically coped much better than we did towards the end of the game," said coach Ivica Olić.

 

[Kitwally]

Someone said that only 2 of the U-23s are over 21(?), so it was kind of our U-21s v their U-21s

 

[HappyGuus]

Thanks for the rundown, Graz.

 

[Decentric]

Thanks for the links.

Good result.

I wonder about the performance?

Nice raking ball from Valadon to set up the goal.

 

[grazorblade]

Someone said that only 2 of the U-23s are over 21(?), so it was kind of our U-21s v their U-21s

Our u22 vs their u21

 

[grazorblade]

Thanks for the links.

Good result.

I wonder about the performance?

Nice raking ball from Valadon to set up the goal.

Performance in the first half was interesting, nearly every pass was forward and we would try and create a chance almost immediately after getting possession. Possession was 50-50 but I reckon we had more possessions if that makes sense

There is a balance, and we were in better balance the 2nd half

 

[TheSelectFew]

Always love beating Croatia

 

[Quicky]

 

[grazorblade]

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Full strength local roos

No osaussie I imagine?

 

[Bbouy]

Full strength local roos

No osaussie I imagine?

A few, Max Anastasio and Alex Garbowski

Lots of names missing overseas but honestly our domestic team is probably just as good. Eames, MacNicol and Tatu is a great three-headed monster. Expect the boys to qualify and the World Cup team will be stacked.

 

[grazorblade]

Given recent discussions this paper is interesting, title slightly misleading:

Youth International Experience Is a Limited Predictor of Senior Success in Football: The Relationship Between U17, U19, and U21 Experience and Senior Elite Participation Across Nations and Playing Positions". authored by Herrebrøden and Bjørndal and published in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living in 2022.

they found that success at u17s was a slightly negative predictor (but not statistically significant)
Success at u19 a modestly good predictor and success at u21 youth tournaments a strong predictor

u20 success would be decent predictor then

 

[grazorblade]

As for ages of the starting xi
Australia was 21.3 and Croatia was 20.2. So about 1 year.

 

[SocceroosFan]

As for ages of the starting xi
Australia was 21.3 and Croatia was 20.2. So about 1 year.

Yeah but if Vidmar picked Leonard instead like he should've, the average age would be a lot closer. Doesn't make a lot of difference at that age group anyway