Summary
Thank you for joining me for all the fun this afternoon. It’ll be a while until we do it again with the Socceroos not back in action until the October international break when they head to London for matches against England and New Zealand. After that, it’s competitive football all the way with World Cup qualifiers and the Asian Cup dominating the calendar. Be sure to join me back here for all of that.
And now a smiling, buoyant, Graham Arnold.
We played against a very good side here and obviously a couple of mistakes cost us goals, but at the end of the day I think the boys did exceptionally well and obviously we have things to improve on. When you play these types of games you learn your lessons.
The whole week has been incredible, and bringing the young players in giving them an opportunity with the Socceroos, being in America, to sample what we are going to get in a couple of years’ time. We play against Mexico, No 12 team in the world and I think we did very well. There are things to improve on and that is giving away silly goals.
On Cameron Burgess’ debut:
I thought he did very well. His first international and the first time he has ever played alongside Harry Souttar or any of the other boys. I thought he fitted in very well. Overall I was very happy with the performance, but also, we can improve.
On Jackson Irvine’s injury:
He has rolled his ankle. He was in a lot of pain. They asked him if it was good and he said no. It is one of those things, unfortunately.
