Sam Kerr Returns in 2-1 Win Over Wales, Plus Clean Sheets, Goals and Injury Updates

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Hello and welcome to the Aussie Football Passport, your one stop pod for updates

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on your favourite Aussie men and women who are playing their club careers abroad.

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I'm your host Alex and this week there is plenty to cover.

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We've got Matilda's news regarding their last games of the year as

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well as a review of their game against Wales. We find out the Socceroos opponents

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for the November international window. There's a new segment to celebrate

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our 25th episode. Wow. Can you believe it? And of course an update

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on all our players and their club careers abroad. Let's wait no

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further and get straight into the headlines. Foreign so

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let's start off with some Socceroos news. They will return to the US and A

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during the November Men's international window to take on Venezuela and

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Colombia. The first match is to be played on November

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14th local time and it will see the soccers travel to Houston,

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Texas to face a Venezuela at the Shell Energy Stadium which

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is set to be a venue used as part of the FIFA World cup in

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in 2026. The second of the stateside

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doubleheader will see the Socceroos take on Colombia at Citi field in Queens,

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New York on November 18th local time, which is

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another venue to be used at the World cup next year. So you can see

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why the Socceroos have chosen both of those fields

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and thankfully they were available. Of course there was a rumor going around that Australia

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were trying to tee up another friendly with Argentina, this time in India, but that

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one fell through and I think probably not such a bad thing as our

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lads can get a little bit more acclimatized to the conditions in

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the US and then watch us get drawn in Mexico or

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Canada next year. Ha ha, good joke. Anyway, let's move on.

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The Matildas will head to Adelaide to take on New Zealand at Cooper stadium

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on Tuesday 2nd December. Kickoff will be 8pm local

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time. So do some good maths. Good luck with that. I think Adelaide

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is about half an hour New South Wales, Victoria act,

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all those states that have daylight savings. So yeah,

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I'll leave the rest of the math to you. Anyway, it's not my strong point.

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So it will be the first time that the Matildas have been in Adelaide since

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May 2024. It'll be the second and

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final game of that two match series against New Zealand in the next international window

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for the women which is over the end of November and the start of December.

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More importantly, that game will actually be broadcast on free to air on

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Channel 10. So the first against New Zealand will

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not be broadcast on Channel 10. It will be behind the paywall on paramount.

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Plus the second game will be on channel 10. Now to

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the Matilda's game, the first of their tour of the UK

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where they had a 21 win over Wales. Coach Joe

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Montemiro named a starting 11 with a mix of experience and up and

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coming talent. And it was headlined by Sam Kerr's first start in the national team

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colors in 725 days. Can you believe it?

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Hayley Rasso was the captain in what was her 100th appearance

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for Australia. She is the 17th player to reach that milestone in

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Matilda's history. So congratulations to Hayley on that

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landmark appearance. Now Courtney vine appeared in the

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green and gold for the first time since the Paris Olympics last year.

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She was introduced as a late second half substitute

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in this game. The Matildas let's get onto their actual performance.

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They found the breakthrough in the 27th minute. It was Caitlin

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Ford who won a free kick just outside the penalty area and Courtney Nevin,

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our Women's Player of the Week from last week. She aimed for the front post

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with her free kick and the ball stuck through and in for her first

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international goal. So she is in a rich vein of form lately.

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Courtney, so great to see and I think it's

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going to be very interesting to see what Joe does with that left back position.

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Whether Courtney Nevin holds it or whether Steph Catley moves back into

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that left back position. And Courtney is the backup.

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So we'll have to wait and see. Of course Steph is playing as a center

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back exclusively now for Arsenal. So some interesting little

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tweets and variations that Joe will have to think about when

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he selects his side against England.

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So Wales started the second half strongly looking for

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that equaliser and they found it in the 55th minute of this game.

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There was confusion at the back for the Matildas of course with those

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couple of switches there in the back four. The ball fell

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to 18 year old Merid Griffiths as a result and she lifted the ball over

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Tegan Micah to score her first international goal. So a

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nice thing for marriage of course with the Welsh

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team celebrating the retirement of Jess

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Fishlock as well her last international. Now getting

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back to the game again after some wonderful build up play between Holly McNamara,

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Ellie Carpenter and Kyra Cooney Cross, our Player of the Week scored the winner

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with five minutes remaining to cap a good display from our Matilda.

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So you'll have to stick around if you want to find out who our Women's

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Player of the Week was. What about that for a hook? I am getting a

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little bit better at this. Some would say, some will probably disagree.

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Anyway, the next game is against England and that will be on Wednesday

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morning, local Australian time, or Tuesday night if you

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are in the uk. We will provide analysis of that game in the next

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episode. All right, now to that new sort of mini

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segment or segment within a segment. It's injury news.

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It's something we don't want to hear, obviously, but it is something that

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I need to do to keep you updated on all the latest injuries without Aussies

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abroad. So also a good spot for a plug if you're a sponsor.

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If you're listening, maybe Voltaren or someone like that, reach out and we'll,

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we'll put you into the show here. Anyway, enough of that shameless marketing there.

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Let's get into the injury news. So just before recording,

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I've had a look at Emily Gilnick's social media and she's posted some photos

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of herself back on the training pitch with her team. So that looks like it's

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a good sign. There is no official information, as you can imagine.

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There's not a whole lot out there, unfortunately, and my Spanish is not

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so good, believe it or not. But yeah, we'll keep you posted. But hopefully

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she's involved this week for Monterrey at

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the weekend as the women's club football continues after that

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international break. Now to Jordan Boss.

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What we were sincerely hoping didn't happen has happened

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on the weekend you substituted off in Feyenoord's loss to PSV

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in that top of the table clash in the Netherlands. We are

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still waiting for official confirmation on what the injury is

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and of course the timeline involved, but it is believed to be a hamstring injury.

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So Boss has a history of hamstring injuries. One in fact kept

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him out for four months of last season. So let's hope it's not

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the same hamstring. I don't think it really matters too much because hamstring injuries

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aren't very good or very nice. Either way, we wish Jordan

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a speedy recovery. Now Portsmouth coach John Moseno

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has delivered a positive update on our man Adrian Sega.

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He was quoted as saying, it's not as bad as we first thought.

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There's no surgery needed and we're hoping that he'll be back within four to

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six weeks. And the injury was on his ankle. I should point out.

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Now for all you regular listeners, you've probably been

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wondering why we haven't been mentioning our superstar

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Brad Smith on the podcast lately. Well, it turns out that he has a

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muscle injury and unfortunately there is no known return date

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on that one. So we wish Brad all the best and we hope to see

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him back for FC Cincinnati as the finals

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kick off in the MLS just over the weekend.

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Just gone. Whether he will play a part in that or whether it will be

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next season that we see Brad Smith again, we will keep you updated.

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Now we've gone back and forth but let's head back to Portsmouth

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where Hayden Matthews has been cleared of any major damage after

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suffering cramp and being substituted off for Portsmouth in their

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game on the weekend. So that is it for the

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injury news and that is it for the weekly wrap. So let us know if

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you've enjoyed the injury news updates there. Let us know on our

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the Aussie football passport and you should be able to find us. All right,

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so that's it. Let's move on to the Weekly

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wrap where of course we've got no women's club action, but we've got plenty of

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men's action to cover for you this week. Foreign Weekly

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wrap time. And let's start as per usual in the United Kingdom,

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specifically in England and Wales in the Second Division,

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also known as the Championship, where Cameron Burgess played a full

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game for Swansea City in a 10 loss to QPR in midweek.

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He then backed it up with a full game for his side in a 21

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win over Norwich City. This time the Championship, of course, having midweek

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and weekend fixtures. Now, Lewis Miller, there was a bit of an injury scare for

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him recently, but it looks like he is in full fitness because he played

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a full game for Blackburn in a 31 loss to Sheffield United in midweek.

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He then played a full game for his side and providing

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an assist in a 21 win over Southampton. So congratulations,

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Lewis. That is outstanding stuff. Now, Hayden Matthews,

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of course we mentioned him earlier in that injury news, but before that he actually

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made an appearance in Portsmouth's midweek game. He came

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on in the 80th minute as a substitute as

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his side lost 21 to league leaders Coventry City.

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This was the game where Adrian Sega injured

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his ankle. He was also a substitute but only lasted 10 minutes

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until that ankle injury forced him off the pitch.

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Now, getting back to Hayden Matthews on the weekend he started, played 77

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minutes and then was subbed off of course with that cramp injury. But guess what

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he also did? He also scored the only goal of the game. The only problem

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was it was in the wrong Net and it cost his side in a one

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nil loss to Stoke City. Oof. Paul Hayden.

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Let's hope he can bounce back this weekend for Portsmouth.

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Now Nestry Iron Kunda. He played the first half for Watford

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in a 21 win over West Brom in their midweek game. He then

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came off the bench in the 64th minute as his side lost 312

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league leaders Coventry City at the weekend. Now Sam Silvera.

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He was substituted on for Middlesbrough at halftime in a one all draw with Wrexham.

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That was on the weekend. Riley McGree was an unused an unused substitute

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for that game. Both players were in their sides

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midweek game which was a one nil win over Sheffield United.

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But they were both unused substitutes. That one. If you can follow that one.

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All right. Now Callum Elder. He played the full game and earned

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a clean sheet for Derby as they beat Norwich City 1 nil.

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He then repeated the trick playing another full game as his side won

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1 nil over QPR at the weekend.

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Now let's drop down a division to League one where Alex

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Robertson, the recently returned soccero but still eligible to play

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for Peru and Scotland and England and a a couple other countries. Anyway,

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he started and played 77 minutes for Cardiff City in their nil

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draw with Bolton Wanderers. Joe Gauche. He played the

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full game in goal for Port Vale as they went down 3 nil to Stockport

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Wolf. That's. That's rough. Now let's head up to Scotland where

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Kasuni Yengi played 19 minutes off the bench for Aberdeen as they were thrashed

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6 nil by AEK Athens in conference

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League action in midweek. Now to Aberdeen's weekend

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game. It was against Hibbs where Martin Boyle came off the bench in the 60th

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minute for his side while Jack Idaho played the full game as

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Hibs went out 21 winners over Aberdeen. Nicholas Milanovic came off

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the bench at halftime for Aberdeen while Nick Suman was an unused substitute and

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Kasuni Yengi was not in the matchday squad. Cameron Devlin.

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He played a full game for Hart in a important 31

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win over Celtic. Can you believe it? Celtic lost. Wow.

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Incredible. Anyway, it means that hearts

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now eight point clears at the eight points clear at the top of the table

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I should say. And it has resulted in Brendan Rodgers losing

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his job, resigning from Celtic.

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So that's. That's massive. And a bit of a war of words have erupted

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between him and one of the boards.

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But is it time for Celtic to put out the bat signal for Ange Postecoglou?

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We shall wait and see. We'll definitely keep you updated on that one.

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Now Keanu Backis played the full game for his side St Mirren

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as they went down 31 to Dundee United. Ryan Strain

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was not in the match day squad for Dundee and you might be wondering there's

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a particular Dundee player that we haven't mentioned there. So stay tuned later

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on in the episode and we will make mention of him, I promise.

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Apostle stomatolopoulos. He played 81 minutes minutes and scored

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a goal in Motherwell's 21 win over Livingston. That goal was a penalty

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as well, I should add. His teammate and fellow Aussie Johnny

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Katrumbas played four minutes off the bench whilst Oscar Priestman

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was an unused substitute for Livingston.

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Tetty Yengi played 22 minutes off the bench. And of course Ryan McGowan

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continues his recover from recovery from injury where he had a nasty

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infection and it's kept him out of action for seven weeks and probably should have

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mentioned that earlier in the injury update section. We still don't have a return

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date for McGowan but we'll

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keep you updated on that one. Now to Italy, Speaking of defenders,

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Alessandro Cucati he played a full game for his side Palmer and helped them clean,

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helped them keep yet another clean sheet in another nil or

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draw this time with Como. So impressive stuff considering

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that Como side is quite stacked up top with the likes of Alvaro Marata

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and coached by of course Cesc Fab. Now to Germany

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where we've got some wonderful news where Connor Metcalf came off

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the bench in the 61st minute whilst Jackson Irvine

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all action Jackson. He also appeared off the bench in the 86th minute

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for their side St. Pauli. Unfortunately they did go down two nil

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to untracked Frankfurt. But yes, incredible stuff to see

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Irvine back on the pitch after 195 days on the

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sideline on with that foot injury. Can you believe it? So fantastic

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stuff. Now to Spain where Matt Ryan was in goal and

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played the full game for levante in a 10 draw with RCD Mallorca.

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That was in the top division. Now in the second division in Spain, Al Amabile

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played the first half for Castellon in a 1 nil loss to Udi

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Almeria. Now to Croatia where Anthony Kalik came off the

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bench in the 84th minute for Hajic split in a 31 win

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over HNK Goreca. Still no news on that injury to

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Frank Karasic, but we will let you know once we have some

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information on that one. Now it's Jordan Moss of Course we

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talked about him earlier in that injury segment, but before that he played 65

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minutes as Feyenoord had a 31 win over Panathenikos in

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the Europa League. He then played 72 minutes at the weekend for Feyenoord

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as they lost to PSV in the Dutch league 3

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2. So that meant that PSV levelled

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up with Feyenoord. They're both on the same amount of points so that should be

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a very interesting title race in the Dutch league this season.

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So yes, we of course will keep you updated on Jordan's injury

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as well once we get more information. Max Ballard he played 82 minutes for NAC

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Brada in a three all draw with SC Hironveen

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in the Etovadisi. Adam Russic he played the

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full game as Heracles Alamello suffered a disappointing three

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nil loss to fellow relegation battlers FC Waldenum.

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They've now conceded ten goals in their last

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two matches so the pressure is on Alamello.

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Now let's head to Austria where Jacob Italiano played a

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full game for Grazer AK in a 1 nil loss to Lask

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and Grazer desperately need to that losing

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streak. Noah Botich he started and played 66 minutes

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as Austria Vin lost 3 nil to the powerhouse that

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is Red Bull Salzburg. Now to Denmark where we had

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a lot of Aussies of course in that wonderful Randers team.

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Paul Itzo was in goal and kept a clean sheet and played the full game

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whilst Mohamed Toure started and played 76 minutes and

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his brother Musa played 15 minutes. It was a nil all draw with Szanderski

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Fodbold. Now to Norway where Nick D' Agostino came off the

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bench in the 69th minute and scored the final goal in Vikings 51

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win over Byrne FK. Gianni Stenzness came off the

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bench at halftime for Viking in that one.

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Now to Hungary where Daniel Arzany finally got

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some minutes for his side at Fedunkavasi TC in a 21

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loss to Zala Gorevsky Tefc. That is

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an absolute mouthful. I need to take some Hungarian lessons.

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If anyone has any Hungarian teachers

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out there, please let me know. Now to Serbia where Milos Degenerk played 68

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minutes as TSC Baka Topola lost 2:1 to F

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K Radigny 19:23.

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Now to the US and day where playoff

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season is upon us and Patrick Yazbek played 68 minutes for Nashville

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as they lost 31 to Inter Miami in the first of

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that three game series to decide who progresses to the next

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round which of course is the conference semifinals and of course the

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USA just do it their own way, don't they? New York City FC

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will be playing on Wednesday morning, so check your local guides to see

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if you can tune in and watch our man Aidan o' Neill

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involved in that one. Now let's round out

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our weekly wrap in Japan with Mitch Duke starting and

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playing 57 minutes for his side Mikaeda Zelvia as they drew nil

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with Urawa Red Diamonds. Jason Garia

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played a full game for his side, Albert Niigata as they drew two

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all with Visel Kobe. All right, that is it for

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the weekly wrap. Players of the Week is up next.

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All right, Players of the Week time and let's start with our Women's Player

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of the the Week. Whilst it was tempting to give the Women's

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Player of the Week award to Courtney Nevin again this week after scoring her

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first goal for the Matildas, we have decided to pivot and go

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and give the award to Caitlin Ford. She played across

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the final third in that game against Wales and was a

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constant menace for their defenders. It was of course only a matter of time before

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she broke their defence, which she did with her goal in the ATF 85th minute,

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I should say, in that 2:1 victory. An outstanding game and

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the match winning goal. Of course, that is why she won the award this

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week and let's see if she can back it up against some of her

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Arsenal teammates in the game against England.

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Now to our Men's Player of the Week. It was another tough choice

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this week. We had plenty of heroic defenders and goalkeepers keeping clean sheets and

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we had a few goal scorers to pick from as well. But ultimately

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it was a straight shootout between two strikers in Scotland and this week's Men's

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Player of the Week as promised early in the show goes to Zach

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Sapsford. The Dundee United striker pulled his side back into the game against

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St. Mirren at a crucial time with St. Mirren being up 1 nil

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at that point in time before he scored the equalizer.

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It was substituted off in the 76th minute before a penalty

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and a late goal was scored to round out that game

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three one. But if it wasn't for Zach's goal, who knows whether United would have

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went on and won that and whether that game and the

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rest of his performances would have caught the eye of Socceroos

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coach Tony Popovich. I sincerely hope so because that striking spot

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is still contentious, even though Muhammad Ture's performances of late in the Grand

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Gold have been very promising. We do need the depth and

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I think that Sapsford can provide that.

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All right, well that is it for another week of the Aussie Football passport.

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Goodbye for now.