Australia v Cameroon: Fifa Series international football friendly – live

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Australia XI

Socceroos: Maty Ryan (c, gk), Jacob Italiano, Jason Geria, Alessandro Circati, Lucas Herrington, Jordan Bos, Aiden O’Neill, Connor Metcalfe, Riley McGree, Martin Boyle, Deni Juric.

Lucas Herrington makes nan astir of his first call-up to a Socceroos squad pinch a starting debut, while Deni Juric besides earns a debut cap. Jacob Italiano gets his changeable astatine correct backmost pinch Lewis Miller ruled retired coming and for nan World Cup pinch an Achilles injury, and Fran Karacic sent location for nan squad this week owed to a ft concern.

Preamble

Hello and welcome to unrecorded sum of the international shot friends betwixt Australia and Cameroon at Accor Stadium successful Sydney.

The Socceroos proceed to ramp up their preparations for nan 2026 World Cup pinch their first lucifer of nan Fifa Series against nan Indomitable Lions. Australia will besides look Curaçao adjacent week successful Melbourne, arsenic portion of their farewell circuit of games connected location ungraded earlier nan world showpiece to beryllium held successful nan United States, Canada and Mexico from June.

This is besides nan last agelong of games for nan Socceroos players to property their claims for a spot successful nan World Cup squad. The comparative evenness of nan 2 sides should besides guarantee a much intriguing contest, pinch nan Socceroos presently classed 27th successful nan world while Cameroon are not excessively acold down astatine No 44. But nan Indomitable Lions besides person a constituent to beryllium arsenic they statesman to look further into nan early aft nan African giants grounded to suffice for nan 2026 World Cup.

Socceroos caput coach Tony Popovic has fixed first-time telephone ups to Lucas Herrington and Ante Suto, and location is simply a imaginable debutant for Deni Juric. A precocious alteration owed to wounded intends Kye Rowles has joined nan squad successful spot of Fran Karacic who has a ft problem. Cameroon caput coach David Pagou has some eyes firmly connected nan early pinch an inexperienced squad and 12 imaginable debutants travelling to Australia, while only 4 players stay from nan squad that reached nan past 8 astatine Afcon successful January.

Kickoff successful Sydney is 8.10pm section aliases AEDT / 10.10am WAT / 9.10am GMT. I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch nan line-ups and squad news. But now is nan clip to deed maine up pinch questions, thoughts and predictions – shoot maine an email, aliases find maine connected X @martinpegan and Bluesky @martinpegan.bsky.social. Let’s get into it!