Republic of Ireland v Australia 13 August 2009
September 10th, 2009 | by admin |
Republic of Ireland v Australia 13 August 2009
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/socceroos/socceroos-dominate-ireland-223306
Socceroos dominate Ireland
Tim Cahill’s brace of goals has led Australia to a 3-0 win over the Republic of Ireland in an international soccer friendly in Limerick.
David Carney chimed in with a long-range goal just before the final whistle to consolidate the Socceroos’ win at Thomond Park.
Cahill combined beautifully with Scott McDonald for his first, an international goal still eluding the Celtic striker after 14 appearances for his country.
A short time later, Cahill pounced on a loose ball after team-mate Rhys Williams’ shot was saved to send the visitors to the break with a two-goal advantage.
McDonald would almost certainly have broken his scoring drought after 21 minutes had Shay Given spilled Patrick Kisnorbo’s header, but the Ireland and Manchester City goalkeeper leapt desperately on the ball and held firm.
Moments later, Socceroos custodian Mark Schwarzer, standing in as captain for the club-less Lucas Neill, made a sharp save to deny Ireland skipper Robbie Keane, who beat Kisnorbo and drilled the ball at goal from close range.
Just after half an hour had elapsed, McDonald’s Celtic team-mate Aiden McGeady beat Australian defender Jade North but fired over the crossbar.
Darron Gibson then blew an opportunity for Ireland to break the deadlock when his cross to striker Kevin Doyle was way off target.
Cahill made the breakthrough in the 38th minute with some help from McDonald as the pair took on five Irish defenders.
Cahill passed to McDonald, who in turn laid it off to the Everton star and the resulting shot from the edge of the box found the bottom left corner of the net.
Just before half-time, Cahill struck again.
When Williams’ lively shot was stopped by Given, the ball went straight to Cahill, who sent it through the legs of Richard Dunne and the ‘keeper from about 10m out for his 18th goal in 34 appearances for Australia.
With the English Premier League season set to get underway on Saturday, Everton manager David Moyes would have been pleased to see his key midfielder rested for the second half, replaced by Brett Holman.
Likewise, a busy schedule for Celtic, with their domestic campaign starting against Aberdeen this weekend followed by a tough Champions League final qualifying round tie with Arsenal on Tuesday, meant McDonald was rested after half-time.
He was replaced Nikita Rukavytsya, while Adrian Madaschi came on for Kisnorbo.
Neill, who remains without a club after his contract with West Ham expired at the end of the 2008-09 Premier League season, was not even on the bench, despite training with the Australian squad the previous day.
Socceroos manager Pim Verbeek made several more changes as the match drew to a close and Ireland counterpart Giovanni Trappatoni also rotated his players.
Keith Andrews, a 63rd-minute substitution for Gibson, almost pulled a goal back for Ireland in the closing stages, but his attempt hit the left post.
On the stroke of full-time, Carney shot from 30m past substitute goalkeeper Keiren Westwood.
Duration : 0:9:14
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25 Responses to “Republic of Ireland v Australia 13 August 2009”
By ap821116 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
But not as good as …
But not as good as the Aussies.
By daboom2006 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Italians are a good …
Italians are a good . Even though most of their girls are s, i can tell even with my big they have loose . Hate those type of whores. Ah well thats what they get for being italian
By nigefal on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
How are you saying …
How are you saying I am making no sesnse? hughton houghton townsend caserino et al all played for Ireland because they had Irish descent… Sure one of yer ex prime minsiter keating is it is really proud of his Irish heritage! I think you aussies should be glad that we Irish were terrible thieves got caught and were sent to austrailia!
By apacheslim on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
the little …
the little dived and was awarded a penalty in the last minute who the gives a penalty in the last minute
By apacheslim on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
when the did …
when the did this happen?
I didn’t hear ing thing about it!!
By pwner331 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
I think the …
I think the commentary are really harsh to call ireland an average team. Duff, keane, Mcgeady, Dunne, Gibbs and Evans. They are a really good side
By fcukmachinee on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
haha ur funny, i …
haha ur funny, i might not of played for the roos but im playing for the nsw reps and in the youth premier league im only 16 u wit. next time think before u talk. ur making a full out of urself.
By didiiscro on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Craig Foster knows …
Craig Foster knows more than you and played for the roos at least who the farrk are you get off twgf ya bum
By didiiscro on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
FCUKMACHINEE …
FCUKMACHINEE jealous much what a ing gay saying the only one who is jealius is you from 2006 kaiserslautern u wit ahahhahahah get off twgf you bum maggot how does it feel to lose to a ten man team????
you can sit down again
By didiiscro on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
you aussies and …
you aussies and those on twgf are still burning over the 2006 world cup where the great francesco dashed your hopes from 12 metres ahahhahahahahhah suck it you bitter s making excuses you lost to 10 man team and still complain you were robbed in 2002 you said we were whinging ahhahah look at you now who’s whinging now ya useless s end of the day Ireland>>>>Australia 90,94 and 2002 world cups and made qtrs and 2nr round twice Australia has one win ffs ever buuuuurrrrrrrrrnnnnn TOOOTEEE!!
By didiiscro on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
mate you played us …
mate you played us with a man advantage from the 3rd minute you played ing and if we had pazzini on like we should have we would have absolutely buried you. You got a late goal ffs Ireland suck balls youre a joke.how the can you lose 3 nil to a bunch of kangaroos ffs we beat them with ten men and almost beat you with 10 men ARRRRRHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
what
By princeynd on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
GO AUSSIES
GO AUSSIES
By KillaPython on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
another day in the …
another day in the office for australia.
By chriso474 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Great win.. …
Great win..Unfortunately that planet of the ape looking mother er Craig foster had to put the win down by saying it wasn’t tough opposition and they knew the style of Ireland.Hes been against pim from the start and its like he wants them to lose just to say i told you so…pathetic little man.
By Jonwallachio on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Australia were …
Australia were missing Chipperfield, Moore, culina, Emerton, Grella, Neil, Viduka, Kennedy and a bunch of fringe guys like Sterjovski, Coyne, Burns and Beachamp.
Considering we had a whole new backline, we did very well and we have enough depth in midfield to cover any missing players.
By Jonwallachio on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
His grandma was …
His grandma was from Ireland, that’s it. His dad was English and his mum was Samoan. He was born in Australia though, so he’s an Aussie.
Jesus, my grandfather was french, but that doesn’t make me french, obviously. I mean my last name is Wallace, so am I Scottish, even though I’ve never been there? You make no sense.
By adriandecleir on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
fair play oz, and …
fair play oz, and to the small crowd who were making more noise than the Irish in thomond park lol, but luckily it was just a pre season friendly, if Ireland can get back to the way we played against the Italians then we should qualify
By hypnotizeu on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
carney better be …
carney better be playing in the WC, he was always one of the standout players in the aleague
By marcusceltic on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Haha u idiot.
Haha u idiot.
By SirUnavailable on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Such a bad game for …
Such a bad game for Ireland!!!
Hope to go to the WC though……
By corey26081987 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Unfortunately for …
Unfortunately for us socceroos fans, Pim and Arnold totally love Holman for some odd reason. That is why Holman will definitely be in the world cup squad, most unfortunately.
By robbiebalboa on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Carney should do …
Carney should do himself a favour and do what luke wilkshire did. Leave the british isles and play his football in mainland europe.
By mogyoro15 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
Brilliant! Making …
Brilliant! Making us proud.
By samelost99 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
good game for …
good game for australia but if you look at the way australia play the game no way you can do this at the world beause you will not get much room to play the ball the ireland gave aus to much space but good game aus
By emmy102 on Sep 10, 2009 | Reply
i was one of the …
i was one of the few hundred aussies there going mental on the western stand. well in lads!!!