The Australian soccer team did not fail and will play for the seventh time, the sixth consecutively, the final phase of a World Cup, after certifying its classification for the United States World Cup, Mexico and Canada 2026 by imposing 1-2 to Saudi Arabia.
The best possible gift for goalkeeper Matt Ryan, formerguarde, among others, of Valencia and the Real Sociedad, which fulfilled his one hundred match with the 'Socceros' shirt.
A Ryan who despite the insistence of Salem to Dawsari, the only one in the Saudi team that seemed to believe at all times to achieve victory for five goals of difference that the Saudi team needed to snatch the World Cup ticket from Australia, he barely had to intervene in the first half.
Circumstance that did not prevent the 'green hawks' from getting ahead of nineteen minutes on the scoreboard with a goal from Abdulrahman to the Obud after a pass, of course, from Al Dawsari, after the nth admitted to the Hilal player for the left wing.
But Australia, who in the last Catar World Catar reached the round of 16, in which he fell 2-1 against Argentina, was not willing to make anything or anyone separate him from his seventh world.
As made clear in the absence of three minutes for the conclusion of the first half with the goal of midfielder Connor Metcalfe, who matched the contest (1-1) in an action in which the player of St. Alemán Pauli demonstrated his capacity for arrival to the rival area.
A goal in which Mitch Duke played a fundamental role, which in the final minutes of the first period demonstrated his capacity as an assistant with the magnified pass that served Metcalfe, at the start of the second revealed his conditions as a magnificent header.
The Japanese Machida Zelvia player won the game at 48 minutes to all and established the final 1-2 for the oceanics when completing with a powerful stub a lateral foul launched by Martin Boyle.
A blow to Saudi Arabia, which three minutes later seemed to see his situation further aggravated with the expulsion by direct red card of the Ali Majrashi side after knocking Boyle in a counterattack.
An expulsion from which the Saudi defender was finally saved after understanding the collegiate of the match when reviewing the images that Majrashi had not committed lack of the visiting player.
Nothing could prevent, however, the victory of the Australian team, although Saudi Arabia had 85 minutes of an unbeatable occasion to achieve the tie in a penalty launch.
But Salem al Dawsari could not transform the maximum penalty he had caused, after ranking with a spectacular Matt Ryan who guessed the intentions of the Saudi player and stopped the ball.
Unbeatable presentation card of the French Lens goalkeeper, which will play next summer in the United States, Mexico and Canada its third quarter World Cup after previously playing those of Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Catar 2022.
World Cup event with which Saudi Arabia, despite the defeat, can continue to dream after ensuring its presence in the fourth round of the Asian classification phase for the 2026 World Cup.
A round in which the six participating teams will be divided into two groups of three teams each, in which only the first classified will obtain the ticket for the United States, Canada and Mexico, while the latter will play their presence in the World Cup in the International Repesca.
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