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Speaking after the game to a press conference with over 100 members of the media, Verbeek was moderately pleased with the result.

"I'm pleased with the 0-0 result. I pay compliments to my players with more or less no preparations too.

"But in the circumstances this was the maximum result for us."

Verbeek conceded that makeshift striker Timmy Cahill, who's had a very tough schedule of late in England, had a hard shift against the two central defenders for the Blue Samurai.

"It was a difficult night for Timmy.

"I was impressed with Scott Chipperfield. If you see he had not one training session in the last few weeks and played here for 90 minutes.

"He struggled a little in his first 10 minutes with his rhythm but after that he played a great game. So physically and mentally a great performance.

"And that goes for the whole team who worked very hard in a difficult game. I'm not pleased that we didn't win the game.

"We didn't deserve to win the game to be honest. Every coach wants to win games so that's the only thing I can say but again, I think 0-0 was maximum."