The Socceroos needed an 86th-minute goal from Alex Brosque to get past the plucky Thais, who went ahead early, before Australia equalised through Joshua Kennedy on 58 minutes.

Schwarzer, who was seen shouting at his team-mates through the contest, said the team was all over the place and lacked shape in the first-half.

“It felt like a loss to be perfectly honest. At the end of the day the only thing I can say is we got three points on the board,” Schwarzer told Fox Sports.

“It was probably one of our worst performances we've had for a very long, long time. There's no excuses. It wasn't good enough today and we all know it.”

He added: “We were all over the place. We didn't have any good shape. We were chasing rather than playing with our head.

“The boss had strong words to everyone at half-time, but the positive is we got the three points. That's all.”

Australia's next task is a much more difficult one, away to Saudi Arabia in Dammam on Tuesday and Schwarzer said drastic improvements needed to be made.

“We definitely can't play like we did today. We need to regain our shape and make sure we all do our jobs which we're supposed to do,” he said.

Skipper Lucas Neill said the Socceroos may have placed too much emphasis on talking about not under-estimating Thailand.

“I think we maybe put too much emphasis on that. As a result forgot to bring it out of the changeroom and onto the pitch,” Neill said.

He added about the performance: “It was disappointing. It shows what can happen if you don't approach the game in the right manner and apply yourself against any team.

“It was good to grind the result out, but we need to improve, we can't kid ourselves.”

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In one of Real Madrid's most outstanding performances at the Camp Nou, Los Blancos beat FC Barcelona 3-1 in the Spanish Supercup. Real were leading 2-1 after Cristiano Ronaldo's 80th minute goal, but just before the final whistle, we sealed the win with this beautiful Marco Asensio strike.
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