The Socceroos are adamant they have learned from wilting under a physical barrage from the United States as they plot a swift response from the get-go against Paraguay.
Plenty of the post-mortem from Saturday's 2-0 loss in Seattle centred around coach Tony Popovic's call to bench last-start goal scorers Nestory Irankunda and Connor Metcalfe.
But Popovic also talked about being sluggish out of the blocks and struggling to go with the US physically in the first half.
