Live updates: Bahrain vs Socceroos, FIFA World Cup qualification ...

77' BAHRAIN ARE AHEAD! BAHRAIN ARE AHEAD!

15 minutes agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 7:54pm

75' BAHRAIN SCORE A SCREAMER!

18 minutes agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 7:51pm

Half-time: Socceroos have the advantage

1 hours agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 7:08pm

1h agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 6:13pm

Plenty enough time for the Socceroos.

I think we'll see a fair amount of this to be honest.

One of the Bahrain players is down.

Vincent Ani Emmanuel and Ahmed Nabeel are waiting to come on.

Meanwhile, Sayed Baqer, the player down, needs a stretcher apparently.

Harry Souttar is down for the Socceroos.

Amine Benaddi is down too.

The reason is that Souttar, attacking a corner, managed to head the Bahrain defender smack in the haw.

There is blood coming from Souttar's rock of a bonce - a fair amount of it too.

As for Bennaddi, he looks in all sorts.

What is it with the Socceroos ..need a few upfront that can find the net.

- Norm

Brandon Borrello is on.

Riley McGree is off.

The Socceroos have a corner that is swung in but, despite their overwhelming height advantage, Bahrain head it clear.

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15m agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 7:54pm

Mahdi Abduljabbar has a second in as many minutes!

An innocuous cross from the left, deflected off the head of Hayden Matthews, past Mat Ryan onto the post and Abduljabbar was there to slam home!

Disaster for Australia.

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18m agoTue 19 Nov 2024 at 7:51pm

OUT OF NOTHING!

Mahdi Abduljabbar saw the ball bounce to him off the thigh of Cameron Burgess and, spotting Mat Ryan off his line, has hammered the ball 40 yards over his head and into the net.

Riotous scenes in Riffa!

The Socceroos, who have had the chances to put this game to bed, are now back on level terms.

Sayed Baqer is absolutely livid with Hyung-Jin Ko.

He has been shown a yellow card for his protestations after Australia were given a freekick for one of their own players kicking in some friendly fire.

He has a point. He made it in the wrong way.

A Mohamed Marhoon glancing header from a freekick skids just wide of the upright, with Mat Ryan just shepherding it wide and out for a goal kick.

The Socceroos keeper had it covered, but Bahrain are getting close.

Bahrain has a corner, swept in at pace but Harry Souttar smashes it away with his mighty noggin.

Bahrain battle with Geria to get the ball back into the danger zone, but there is an offside.

Craig Goodwin and Aziz Behich are going to make way.

Jordan Bos and Ajdin Hrustic are taking their place.

The Socceroos just need to get control back in this game.

But for the boot of Cam Burgess, the Socceroos would have conceded there.

A brilliant chance for the Bahraini side, Ibrahim Al-Khatal did everything right but, with Ryan out of position, Burgess stood tall.

Behich gets in behind the Bahrain defence and cuts the ball back to Yengi, who takes a horror first touch and loses the chance to take the shot.

That was a wonderful chance.

Bahrain break through Ali Madan, but he is fouled by Anthony Caceres, who is shown a yellow card.

The break really was on there for the Bahrain - a good yellow card.

Meanwhile, Jason Geria and Aiden O'Neill are on for Lewis Miller and Jackson Irvine.

Yengi hits the post, with the ball coming off his chest!

It was a looping ball to Riley McGree in acres of space that led to the chance.

Kamil Al Aswad gets a shot away at the edge of the penalty area but there are enough Socceroos defenders there to block the effort.

Bahrain are furious with referee Hyung-Jin Ko.

Craig Goodwin was knocked to the ground by a Bahrain player, who remonstrated in a similar way to how my three year old does when she's overtired, hurling himself to the ground.

The steely look from the Korean official says it all.

Miller is down holding his head after a corner was swept in and cleared, eventually, by Bahrain.

He just got his head between the ball and the arms of Lutfalla.

Miller does get up, and Lutfalla exchanges some angry words with the Hibernian man.

The Bahrain keeper perhaps thought that Miller had stayed down so VAR might get involved - and I did half-wonder whether it would be worth a look, but nothing doing says the referee.

That's a lovely ball and Goodwin picks it up just over half way.

A great chance for the Socceroos to counter attack but there's not quite enough drive to get the into a position to get the ball from Yengi and the move disapates.