{"id":51048,"date":"2024-01-22T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/arnold-defends-australias-negativity-in-asian-cup-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T15:07:14","slug":"arnold-defends-australias-negativity-in-asian-cup-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/arnold-defends-australias-negativity-in-asian-cup-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold defends Australia’s negativity in Asian Cup | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A prickly Graham Arnold<\/a> hit back on Monday at suggestions that his Australia team are too defensive as the title contenders look to end the Asian Cup group stage with a bang.<\/p>\n

The Socceroos have reached the last 16 in Qatar even before Tuesday’s final group match against Uzbekistan thanks to a 2-0 win over India and 1-0 defeat of Syria.<\/p>\n

The stodgy Syria win came from a neat Jackson Irvine swivel and shot just before the hour — Australia’s only shot on target all game. Syria also had one shot on target.<\/p>\n

Arnold said afterwards that “clean sheets win tournaments”, but on the eve of the Uzbekistan game said that comment had been unfairly misconstrued.<\/p>\n

“My methods are playing attacking football, putting high pressure on,” he said on Monday.<\/p>\n

“I got asked a question about winning this tournament and I said clean sheets win you this tournament.<\/p>\n

“I think probably the Australian media read that the wrong way, as normal.<\/p>\n

“What’s important is that the players know their roles and their jobs. We’ve played two teams where we spent a lot of time in their half.<\/p>\n

“We’ve created quite a number of chances and individually we’ve not finished that off.”<\/p>\n

Arnold, who took Australia to the last 16 of the Qatar World Cup before giving eventual champions Argentina a scare in a 2-1 defeat, will be missing first-choice forward Mitchell Duke against Uzbekistan because of a hamstring niggle.<\/p>\n

That means tweaking his attacking line-up, but returning to the earlier theme, he again took issue at a question suggesting his side are too negative.<\/p>\n

“As I said, I don’t know where you get from that we are a defensive team,” he told one reporter.<\/p>\n

“We have a job to do defensively,” said the 60-year-old, whose side will want to top the group to get a theoretically easier run through the knockouts.<\/p>\n

“We are an attacking team that knows how to defend.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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