Buck Mulligan's
To catch Australia's first World Cup game we went to Buck Mulligans, an Irish pub in Down town, under the Seoul Finance Centre. The atmosphere was pretty cool, with most of the Folks supporting Australia because of the ties with Gus Hiddink and the constant Japanese rivalry. We ordered out pitcher of Hite and our dried snacks (dried fish and jerky served with mayonaise and chilli sauce) and settled in.
We were feeling pretty pleased with the way things were progressing in the game until that "goal". As the game drew on we felt gutted and totally cheated, almost to the point of telling the lone Japanese table to shut up. Thankfully with legend Gus' introduction of Timmy Cahil it all turned around and our sorrow turned to joy, I think we screamed our lungs out and scared half the people around us. As the goals went flying in, we continued to celebrate and to our disappointment, the Japanese table had left before the end...
Australia 3 : Japan 1
Australia made a lively start to the match and proceeded to probe the Japanese defence. They created a number of good chances, most notable a back heel (Hi Ben!) by Viduka to Bresciano who had his side footed shot turned around the post by Japanese keeper Kawaguchi.
Japan bearly troubled Schwarzer until mid way through the first half when a Nakamura free kick was lofted into the box. As the Aussie goalie came to field the ball, he was blatantly obstructed by both Takahara and Yanagisawa, but the Egyptian referee failed to see it and allowed the goal to stand. After such a devastating blow the Australians seemed to lose their way and for the rest were generally held to long range efforts. Just before half time, Bresciano again had Kawaguchi scrambling in goal as a free kick went inces wide.
Gus Hiddink introduced Tim Cahil, Josh Kennedy and John Aloisi to play 3 up front and finally the goal came after Kawaguchi failed to clear a cross and a subsequent goal mouth scramble, Cahil was on hand to slide in the equaliser. Cahil added a second just minutes later with a superb strike from the edge of the box with the ball rebounding off both posts before nestling in the back of the net. Finally Aloisi made a forceful run into the box from the left, turning his marker and slipping a low shot past Kawaguchi for the third in injury time.
A fantastic result and sense of justice after the farce of the first goal.
We were feeling pretty pleased with the way things were progressing in the game until that "goal". As the game drew on we felt gutted and totally cheated, almost to the point of telling the lone Japanese table to shut up. Thankfully with legend Gus' introduction of Timmy Cahil it all turned around and our sorrow turned to joy, I think we screamed our lungs out and scared half the people around us. As the goals went flying in, we continued to celebrate and to our disappointment, the Japanese table had left before the end...
Australia 3 : Japan 1
Australia made a lively start to the match and proceeded to probe the Japanese defence. They created a number of good chances, most notable a back heel (Hi Ben!) by Viduka to Bresciano who had his side footed shot turned around the post by Japanese keeper Kawaguchi.
Japan bearly troubled Schwarzer until mid way through the first half when a Nakamura free kick was lofted into the box. As the Aussie goalie came to field the ball, he was blatantly obstructed by both Takahara and Yanagisawa, but the Egyptian referee failed to see it and allowed the goal to stand. After such a devastating blow the Australians seemed to lose their way and for the rest were generally held to long range efforts. Just before half time, Bresciano again had Kawaguchi scrambling in goal as a free kick went inces wide.
Gus Hiddink introduced Tim Cahil, Josh Kennedy and John Aloisi to play 3 up front and finally the goal came after Kawaguchi failed to clear a cross and a subsequent goal mouth scramble, Cahil was on hand to slide in the equaliser. Cahil added a second just minutes later with a superb strike from the edge of the box with the ball rebounding off both posts before nestling in the back of the net. Finally Aloisi made a forceful run into the box from the left, turning his marker and slipping a low shot past Kawaguchi for the third in injury time.
A fantastic result and sense of justice after the farce of the first goal.
posted by James @ 6:05 pm
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