All Whites vs Peru | First leg | Sat 11 Nov | 4:15pm | RoF

we do have 5 strikers on the bench - smeltz, brockie, fallon, paterson and wood

What the hell are we doing starting Kosta in that case?

All squad players (except Roux) are available on the bench in World Cup qualifiers.

5 strikers on the bench - smeltz, brockie, fallon, paterson and wood

Wood would have berried that chance

Thomas is going to be a star. Easily our best on the field.

Good to know about the bench

Good burst from the AWs. Considering the gulf in quality between the teams we've done OK so far.

With this starting line-up and tactics, I can see us losing 2-0 or 3-0.

An American ref won't help.

The standard of refereeing in Major League Soccer is on a par witht the A-League from what I've seen...

At least this guy hasn't given us a  card yet- I can see a flurry of cards coming though.

Looks like he'll be easily conned by Peruvian play-acting...

hes been ok so far - did see elbow on reid

Peru are pretty dirty players it would seem

playing for every foul 

It's great we've held out for half an hour.

If we can keep a clean heet until half-time, hopefully if Wood can come on in the second half, we'll have a chance of scoring...

Actually makes sense to keep Wood for the second half if he's not fit.

Damn it, I'm starting to feel the first stirrings of hope. We are scrapping well.

well worked chance - kosta needs to do better than that

If only there was a striker in the middle!

Brockie would have nailed it :D

If Wood isn't fit why did we not start Brockie.  Costa's form is almost as bad for NZ as Brocks, but at least Brocks is scoring for fun right now

Reid is having an immense game so far

Smith, thomas and reid playing well

no one is missing- looks like everyone has steped up

Liked Rory said, keep the faith mate 

How can Kosta give away the ball every time he gets it. He's been awful

McGlinchey/Lewis/Thomas/Rojas/Kosta will comfortably be the shortest All Whites front 5 in history.

Long ball to Kosta is working better than I thought it would tbh

For a team that is 10th in the world - we are not rediculiously behind them 

While Hudson has made some bizarre selections, you can't argue that the team seems very well drilled and every player appears to know their role well.

With Wood starting, I think we'd be giving Peru some serious headaches.

Decent half.

Have to happy with that. However we don't really look like scoring, and we need to. Also I don't think Peru have put the foot to the floor by a long shot. They don't need to, just playing it safe so far.

Decent, not pretty, but we are still in it. Thomas, Reid and Smith have been immense. Rojas has been awful, got to step it up. Some decent runs by Kosta tbf. 

Apart from the goalkeeping blunder, I'd say the best chance in the match fell to Kosta but he shot well wide, definately looked like he could have scored that. A proper striker should have tested the keeper at the very least there.

Get Wood on ASAP

We look very solid defensively. Reid and Thomas having great games. Hopefully Wood comes on soon in the second half or Brockie if Wood is fudged. 

Brockie would have buried that chance that Kosta had

Sure, in row R75

Wow Peru all over us at the start

Oh Stefan Marinovich!!  Great save!!

COYAW

Has he been that bad? He's been fouled a lot. Actually our best moments have come from the quick passing and agility between him, Kosta and Thomas. Sort of football I'd like to see NZ play but you rarely see.

Studio pundits (Bein Sports) arguing that the elbow karate chop on Reid could've been a red card rather than yellow.

So much for our height advantage.

Would like to see Brocks come on for either Rockass or Costa Coffee.