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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Martin Pegan

New Zealand 1-3 Australia: international men’s football friendly – as it happened

Mohamed Toure celebrates
Mohamed Toure celebrates after opening the scoring during Australia Socceroos’ international friendly against New Zealand All Whites in Auckland. Photograph: Phil Walter/Getty Images

Thanks for following along this evening. Grab a cup of tea and try to contain the excitement in Joey Lynch’s report:

Nestory Irankunda is speaking to Paramount about the Socceroos’ performance and his very nearly-wonder goal.

We started off slow. It happens. We got into the groove after the first goal to Mohamed.

9.5 out of 10 [for the free kick shot]. I’ll have to look at that afterwards. That would have been the best goal of my career, for sure.

I’m so happy for [Toure]. When he scores, it’s like I’m scoring. We train every day together in the off-season. To do it for the national team together is just amazing. We worked hard this off-season, me and his brothers, for opportunities like this. And we’ve shown the country what we can do.

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