Goals and Highlights: Australia 4-0 Vietnam in 2022 World Cup Qualifiers

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Australia wins and maintains the hope of qualifying for the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup.

Finish the match:

Australia 4-0 Vietnam

Corner kick for Australia.

Here come Jeggo and Tilio, the latter to make his international debut. Off go Mooy and Martin Boyle.

Time for Rogic to head off. The playmaker is replaced by Riley McGree.

It’s time for Australia to make a change. Maclaren and Leckie are replaced by Duke and Goodwin.

Best chance of the night for Vietnam so far! Nguyen Cong Phuong, who is only denied by a brilliant save by Maty Ryan!

Before the corner is taken, the visitors make another change - Nguyen Phong Hong Duy comes on.

Pham Tuan Hai nearly gets a boot on a near-post cross, but Ryan is there first and clears the danger.

Corner kick for Australia.

A warning shot there from Vietnam.

Australia win an early corner kick.

Vietnam have made three changes at the break, in a bid to shake things up.

Mathew Leckie has been shown a yellow card for a hard foul on Nguyen Quand Hai, whom he knocks down just as he tries to cross midfield.

Shot on goal for Vietnam. Good for the visitors, as they create a scoring opportunity, the first of the night. But Phan Van Duc's effort is weak and easy for Ryan to handle.

Boyle does well to get to Maclaren’s deep cross and play the ball back across the face of goal for Leckie, who controls, spins and fires! Well blocked!

Offside, Australia.

Here is the first yellow card of the night for Pham Xuan Manh, who goes too far in a tackle and catches Rogic.

Corner kick for Vietnam.

Karacic again gets forward well as the Socceroos press forward once again.

Corner Kick for Australia.

While for Vietnam, the dream of attending a World Cup looks increasingly distant. However, the mathematical possibility still exists and we will see what they are capable of in Melbourne this morning.

Australia will endeavour to march to a simple three points in World Cup 2022 Qualifying when they welcome Vietnam to Melbourne for Thursday's AFC third-round tie.

 

Graham Arnold's side currently occupy third spot in the section - which would lead to a place in the fourth round - while the visitors enter the contest without a single point to their name.

Starting XI:

The home team will wear its first uniform for this match. It is a beautiful design, very attached to its tradition and its colors.

Australia players warm-up moment:

Starting XI:

As for Vietnam, both Tuan Anh Nguyen and Thanh Chung Nguyen are suspended for this match after receiving their second yellow cards last time out, although the former was not even called up for this round of matches.

Thanh Chung's place at the back could be taken by Dung Tien Bui alongside Thanh Binh Nguyen, as 60-cap center-back Ngoc Hai Que remains absent from the squad.

Forward Cong Phuong Nguyen, the current team's top scorer with 11 goals, was only used as a substitute in the AFF semi-final loss to Thailand, but he hopes to return here as a substitute in the attacking front.

Mathew Ryan and Aziz Behich will reportedly only have one training session with the Socceroos ahead of Thursday's match due to late arrivals from Europe, so there may be room for left-back Joel King to get a few minutes in this match. .

Talented Australian playmaker Ajdin Hrustic will miss this game via suspension due to an accumulation of yellow cards, so Tom Rogic or Aaron Mooy could take his place behind Duke this morning.

Coach Graham Arnold is highly unlikely to name an inexperienced team given the team's need for points from him, as Martin Boyle and Mathew Leckie provide potentially crucial experience in those areas.

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