adminBRASILIA. — Despite Australia already having been eliminated from the World Cup soccer finals, the Socceroos all-time leading scorer Tim Cahill believes Australian football can take a huge step forward with victory over dethroned world champions Spain today. The match kicks-off at 6pm.Both sides hopes of progression to the last 16 have been ended by successive defeats to Chile and the Netherlands, but whilst Spain have endured a nightmare defence of their title in Brazil, Australia have taken huge encouragement from their performances.
Ange Postecoglou’s men had led the Dutch in the second-half in their last outing thanks to a wonder strike from Cahill and Mile Jedinak’s penalty before being eventually losing 3-2. Cahill will miss the match in Curitiba having picked up his second yellow card of the tournament in that match, but has backed his teammates to make history. — Soccernet.
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