New Zealand Men's U-20s

Milicich on his side's chances in Turkey:

http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc/News/ViewArticle/tabid/125/Article/895ce790-950a-447a-af23-907917534d4d/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Tahiti Confeds Cup side walloped 7-0 by Chile u-20 mid-week in a friendly Chile:

http://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc/News/ViewArticle/tabid/125/Article/dd44b3f7-8077-450f-bd51-ba9850ce6f07/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Seems to be no TV coverage in Australia of NZ u-20 v Aussies Monday evening.

Piece on Young Socceroos 2-2 draw with Germany u-21 a week ago:

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1154206/Young-Roos-draw-with-Germany

Some matches from FIFA u-20 World Cup Turkey streaming on Australia's SBS "World Game" website for free:

"All the Young Socceroos matches at FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013, plus the semi-finals and final, will be LIVE on SBS TV and streamed online on The World Game."

Place to find the games streaming:  http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/

Other major football matches sometimes stream there too.

N.B. SBS restricts viewing outside of Australia but you  can get around it by acquiring access to an Aussie VPN server (for a relatively small fee - can sign up for monthly/ annual)

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England Under 21's 1 Norway Under 21's 3

Zaha (Man U)  - crap! Shelvey (L'pool) crap! Henderson (L'pool) crap! Rose (Spurs) crap!

Reputations? Income? - Don't mean a thing. You've got nothing to fear in Turkey, guys. Go 4 it!

With only 3 pre tournament friendlies are we starting with our shadow 11 straight away or is there time to tinker and experiment with players and positions.

Would love to see this game tomorrow and how we line up.

Is tomorrow nights game televised anyone?

SBS have a camera at the game but isn't being shown live or in full by them. https://twitter.com/SJR1978/status/343625841814675456

Any twitter feeds for the game?

@TonyTannousTRBA

Starting line-ups:

Basalaj

Roux Adams Solomons Higgins

Fenton      Gulley      Howieson

Thomas    Boyd      Van Elia

...not surprised we're being pumped against a virtual A League quality side and a team that have been together longer and have just been in Europe competing against UEFA U21 sides...

2-0 after 38 mins....Taggart with both goals

getting a whipping now

Whats the score?

I was hoping for a good performance... but it really does also highlight the difference between their build up and ours!!

3-0 after 47 taggart hatrick

Ouch.

Missing Payne and Tuiloma in the starting squad. Not sure about how much of a difference having Jordan starting would make either.

So starters missing: Payne, Tuiloma, Jordan and Croncombe - would anyone else be seen as a near certainty to start??

oh oh  4-0

But Australia don't even have Gameiro or Caira and potentially others too

unhappy.  how are these goals being scored????? is higgins struggling?

Ganeiro isn't starting for them at the moment is he??

Not a good result, but again we are playing against a team coming off games against Holland and Germany where as we have played no one for months.

I hoped for the best but did expect to get beater by a couple. Not four obviously. I guess the bigger question is are we keepng possession and making chances as well, but not converting them. Is the defence been sloppy and the goals.

Does the scoreline reflect the actual gap or not.

My question is.....Why are we not scoring???????

ends 5 zip

5-0 massive gulf

....work.....to.....be .....done....

Yep think Chris will need to go back to the drawing board. maybe not rely in these so called 'Pros" so much

I was there..

Goals all came straight down the middle of the pitch.

Mistakes throughout

Aussie just sharper and gifted 3goals

There goalie pulled off a few great saves..

Best on pitch for aussie - Adam taggret, connor pain and adam galloway

Best for nz - elia, roux and higgins.. 

I'm not sure why everyone seems so surprised?

Double teamed louis fenton the entire game

Okay, so positives were:

* All their goals came straight through the middle, what was this team missing.... its middle in Payne and (Name blank... the Bristol City lad). Hopefully with these two in there it will strengthen that side of things.

* We gifted three goals, given more time together training and playing this shouldn't happen.

*We had some decent shots at goal, but were denied.

I am really keen to see how Milicich responds to this and what he has to say... i expect the typical the scoreline didn't reflect the game. We had patches where we were very competative and unlcuky not to score whereas the wre more ruthless and punished us for our errors. Plus we are a new side, we can only get better and have much more room to develop whereas Australia is potentially already peaking given their build up.

Im suprised by the scoreline.  This squad (even minus billy t and Payne) should not get f*cked like that - ie damage limitation ahead of the tournament n'all