The Confederations Cup offered us a glimpse at what we can expect in 12 months time, once we return to Russia for the World Cup 2018. Australia’s performance was keenly observed given their current struggles to qualify for next year’s tournament and they didn’t disappoint. Despite failing to engineer a successful path through to the knockout stages, Australia’s much maligned formation shift to 3241 seemed to be gaining momentum by the time they headed home, with a highly impressive performance against Chile in their third match of the tournament.
With key World Cup qualifiers to come in the next two months against Japan and Thailand, only progression at the first time of asking to Russia 2018 will satisfy the Socceroo faithful. In the meantime I looked back with Tom Danicek on an up and down Confederations Cup campaign for Australia.
Australia’s Confederations Cup takeaways
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