FIFA World Cup Qualifying - AFC

FT Thursday, October 6, 2016
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Saudi Arabia DDWWW 2
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Alinma Bank Stadium at King Abdullah Sport City · ESPN3

Match Report

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Australia held to draw by Saudi Arabia after four-goal thriller

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Head to Head

AUS leads series 3-0

Lineups

KSA

  1. 21Yasser Al MosailemG
  2. 2Mansour Al-HarbiD
  3. 3Osama HawsawiD
  4. 12Hassan Muath FallatahD
  5. 5Omar OthmanD
  6. 7Salman Al-FarajM
  7. 17Taisir Al-JassimM
  8. 11Abdulmalek Al KhaibriM
  9. 20Nawaf Al-AbidF
  10. 9Naif HazaziF
  11. 8Yahya AlshehriF

AUS

  1. 1Mathew RyanG
  2. 14Brad SmithD
  3. 6Matthew SpiranovicD
  4. 5Mark MilliganD
  5. 20Trent SainsburyD
  6. 10Robbie KruseM
  7. 15Mile JedinakM
  8. 23Tom RogicM
  9. 7Mathew LeckieM
  10. 13Aaron MooyM
  11. 9Tomi JuricF

Timeline

  1. 5' Taisir Al-Jassim (Saudi Arabia) Goal at 5'
  2. 23' Mile Jedinak (Australia) Yellow Card at 23'
  3. 45' Trent Sainsbury (Australia) Goal at 45'
  4. 45'+2' Osama Hawsawi (Saudi Arabia) Yellow Card at 47'
  5. 54' Nassir Al-Shamrani (Saudi Arabia) Substitution at 54'
  6. 61' Massimo Luongo (Australia) Substitution at 61'
  7. 66' Fahad Al-Muwallad (Saudi Arabia) Substitution at 66'
  8. 70' Motaz Hawsawi (Saudi Arabia) Substitution at 70'
  9. 71' Tomislav Juric (Australia) Goal at 71'
  10. 79' Nassir Al-Shamrani (Saudi Arabia) Goal at 79'
  11. 85' Jackson Irvine (Australia) Substitution at 85'
  12. 86' Tim Cahill (Australia) Substitution at 86'

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