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Davidson tried to keep his head up on the pitch after the clanger and immediately threw himself back into the action in an attempt to make up for the error.

But in the sheds after the game, he was cut up over the debacle.

Immediately after the match, he was met by friends and family who tried to lift his spirits while he phoned family back home.

And Socceroos coach Holger Osieck and FFA high performance manager John Boutlbee came out to meet them and console Davidson again, insisting he still had a future in the side.

"He was devastated but I encouraged him," said Osieck after the game. "He was at the end of a chain of mistakes that were made.

"In German, we have a saying, the last person gets bitten by the dogs. In this case, that was Jason. He looked the poor guy, but the mistakes started a lot earlier.

"There was a sequence of mistakes and he had to pay the price for others,"

Osieck added: "I can understand - it was his first international game and he wanted to do well.

"He came on he had some good clearances and then that happened. After that, he was down, and I definitely had to encourage him to keep going.

"That's not the end of the story for him."

Skipper Lucas Neill was impressed by the new leftback - son of former Socceroo Alan Davidson - despite the own goal.

"Other than that, I thought he was looking really good, great confidence on the ball, right position as a defender, just unfortunate about the timing of the header," said Neill.

"You want to remember your debut but that's certainly one he wants to forget. He has the bloodline, and I'm sure he's mentally a tough guy and he'll bounce back.

"I just told him to keep his head up and keep going and to be fair to him, he did. He wanted to get to the ball and didn't shy away and that's a good sign.

"He was distraught in the changing room which is fair enough though."

Neill added: "He and Ryan McGowan came into the game without any nerves, but unfortunately for them, we didn't give them a good platform to come in and debut.

"They had to come in on the back foot and a pressure situation. You really want to come in when the team is bobbing around and playing well.

"Tough lesson...but they'll bounce back."

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