Rojas to Qatar for AWs?
He only came on at HT in ET.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2022/03/15/asia/afc-champions-league/vissel-kobe/melbourne-victory-fc/3726931/
He only came on at HT in ET.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2022/03/15/asia/afc-champions-league/vissel-kobe/melbourne-victory-fc/3726931/
Yeah, during the pointy end of the qualifiers we'll have Champness, De Jong, Just, McCowatt, Grieve and Rogerson, so there’s no desperate need to take him over and with a schedule like that I can imagine Popovic is pretty keen to keep him too. Same situation as Boxall though, in that it gives someone else the opportunity to perform in important games and lessens the chance of you playing in any bigger games later in the year.
That’s the thing for Rojas right. He knows he’s now a marginal selection re the AWs. But it’s WC year and the AWs are a serious shot of being there.
He don’t go to the OFC tourney and his chances just reduce that bit more. But he goes there and does well, he creates a selection (welcome) headache for Hay. Surely he’d say to Poppa, come on it’s everyone’s dream to go to a WC! Poppa was there himself with the Socceroos in 2006.