So the lack of goals is no surprise – yet here we are.

It seems obvious that the answer is to try something new. Ange Postecoglou did, and changed the formation to a back three to create more chances for the attack. 

It succeeded in that aim – but we still didn't score any more, and as a result of weakening our defence, we gave away more goals.

It is not the formation or structure – Ange and Bert both showed we can set up goals…but we just can't score them.

As Bert said after the Peru game, we play well, we create chances, we play good football… and yet we don't win games, while worse teams do.

To an outsider at least, it seems clear that constantly repeating the same thing over and over again for the same result is pointless.

Tomi Juric is simply not working now in that role and Andrew Nabbout is just a like for like replacement, as we saw when Juric replaced Nabbout against Denmark to absolutely no effect whatsoever.

(That game, as critics have pointed out, was crying for a touch of Cahill magic…but ultimately it wouldn’t have mattered. Even if we had won, Denmark would still have had four points to our three and we still wouldn't have made the last 16.)

But it is baffling to continually see us overlooking a natural born goalscorer like Jamie Maclaren, a player who scored more than any other Australian in an A-League season…then repeated it the following season. 

He was in fine form overseas for Hibs but despite being a late call-up, never got a look in.