Australia v Norway

For his first game in charge Bert Van Marwijk chose a surprising first XI. The Norwegians played different football to our usual Asian opponents. Long, direct high balls to a huge centre forward caught out our centre halves and exposed us to dangerous second balls.

The result was poor but the three debutants in Petratos, Nabbout and Sunsjar all played well. Hopefully, the squad can all put this game behind them.

Mat Ryan 4.5

Not a game he’ll remember fondly. Picked the ball out of the back of the net four times and didn’t do much else. He’s taking blame for a bad pass out of defence that caused one of the goals but Jedinak deserves blame there too for not expecting the pass.

Aziz Behich 5.5

The best performing defender in the Australian starting line-up. Most of our successful build up came down his side and his good positioning saw him make several intercepts.

Mark Milligan 3

Struggled against the height and pace of the Norwegian frontmen. He was beaten in the lead up to the Norwegian equaliser. A couple of good passes from defence but also a couple of bad passes.

Milos Degenek 4 

Wasn’t caught out as much as Milligan but he also struggled to deal with the height and pace of the opposition.

Bailey Wright 4

Beaten down the right hand side too often. He was caught a little out of position at right fullback.

Mile Jedinak 5.5

His aerial presence was really important in today’s game. He got his head to a lot of balls. When the play was on the ground the Norwegians were targeting our two holding midfielders. Whilst Mooy dealt with the pressure, Jedinak was rushed into a few wayward passes.

Aaron Mooy 6.5

So many backwards passes in the first half hour but he eventually started to look forward and the team started to play better because of it. His well hit corner created the first goal. He dealt well with some intense pressing from the Norwegians.