Australia exited the Asian Cup at the quarter-final stage at the hands of the UAE. Graham Arnold says Australia faces being overtaken by other Asian nations with better-funded football programs. Mat Ryan saved two spot kicks in a penalty shootout against Uzbekistan in the Asian Cup round of 16, after the game finished 0-0. It was almost, while recognising how much of a meme the word has become in Australian football: expected. There was a pervasive sense of inevitability in Australia's 1-0 loss to the United Arab Emirates on Friday, knocking them out of the Asian Cup. Absent was the fabled "Science of Belief," but in its place stood logic. Ten minutes of injury time could have been 30, and the Socceroos still would have struggled to find an equaliser. When the agony of defeat is felt in a major international tournament,...from ESPN FC News https://es.pn/2G1u9f3
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