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The Three Lions are in Nottingham for their final game of the summer, days after an unconvincing win over Andorra in Spain. Harry Kane's second-half goal was enough for all three World Cup qualification points, but Thomas Tuchel was critical of the display afterwards.
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Daily Mail
23 minutes ago
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Today's Karl Stefanovic and Sara Abo claim there's a BIG problem with the Socceroos' World Cup win
The Socceroos have officially qualified for a sixth consecutive World Cup after beating Saudi Arabia, yet Melbourne's Federation Square remained unusually quiet on Wednesday morning. After their upset 1-0 win over Japan, the Socceroos only needed to avoid defeat by less than five goals in Jeddah to seal automatic World Cup finals qualification for the first time in 12 years. Australia eventually outclassed Saudi Arabia with a 2-1 victory to book their ticket to next year's World Cup. The Today Show highlighted the unusual absence of celebrations at the iconic Victorian landmark - a stark contrast to some of the scenes that have marked past triumphs. Nine reporter Isabel Quinlan was at Federation Square - typically a buzzing hub for Aussie soccer fans during big games. Today host Karl Stefanovic joked about the absence of people anywhere near the reporter. 'You've just got to celebrate on your own sometimes,' he remarked. Quinlan fired back: 'I know! These are all my friends. Look at us - woohoo!' As the live cross returned to the studio, Stefanovic noted how dire the turn-out was. 'It's Fed Square, Sez. C'mon,' he said. Co-host Sara Abo replied: 'Yeah, exactly. Most people forgot it was on, I reckon Karlos.' Just hours before Today's live cross, Mitch Duke sealed the win even though he wasn't even supposed to be a part of the Socceroos' past two World Cup qualifiers. Duke, who for a second consecutive window was left out of Tony Popovic's squad only to earn a late reprieve, is soaking it all in. The veteran striker came off the bench in the 1-0 win over Japan that effectively sealed automatic qualification for the 2026 tournament. Then, Popovic called on Duke to start against Saudi Arabia in Jeddah, where Australia only needed to avoid defeat by less than five goals. After conceding the opener, things looked dangerous for Australia. Then, in the 42nd minute, Duke teed up Connor Metcalfe to score the equaliser. Three minutes after halftime, the much-maligned veteran striker glanced home a header to put Australia in front with his first goal since January 2024. 'I wasn't even supposed to be here, to be honest,' Duke said. 'Mat Leckie got injured, and I was a late call-up.'' He joked: 'Got the voodoo doll out and maybe injured Leckie. Nah, kidding, sorry, mate. 'But it feels good, and probably a good way to silence some of the keyboard warriors as well. Feels good.' The veteran striker had previously been open about said keyboard warriors and critics on social media coming for him after he missed chances in Australia's Asian Cup quarter-final exit last year. He also relished Australia's turnaround in qualifying after Tony Popovic took over from Graham Arnold, who resigned after a loss and draw in his first two games. 'It feels damn good,' Duke said. 'Not the best start (to qualifying) to be honest, and to get us here, into automatic qualification, we haven't done that for a while, just feels unbelievable. 'Personal triumph feels very good, but I'm more happy just for the boys. 'It's a game of big moments as well, and everyone stepped up when they needed to.' Duke knows he will have to keep kicking up a gear to retain his spot ahead of next year's tournament in north America. 'Mate, all I can do is take the opportunities when they're presented to me, do well at club football, and hope I just keep doing well, and that's all you can do,' he said. 'And to be fair, there's a lot of young players up and coming. 'Mo Toure when he came on, he's an absolute beast.
Leader Live
30 minutes ago
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Thomas Tuchel won't panic after England suffer shock loss to Senegal
Among the favourites for glory in North America, the Euro 2024 runners-up received a wake-up call as the German head coach's honeymoon period came to a crashing end at the City Ground. England were booed off for the second time in four days as Saturday's stultifying 1-0 qualification win against minnows Andorra was followed by a first ever loss to African opposition on Tuesday evening. Harry Kane's early goal was cancelled out when Ismaila Sarr capitalised on poor defending in Nottingham, where Habib Diarra gave Senegal a deserved lead that substitute Jude Bellingham looked to have cancelled out late on. But the equaliser was ruled out as Levi Colwill was adjudged to have handled in the build-up and second-half introduction Cheikh Sabaly added gloss just one year and a day until the World Cup gets under way. Asked if they key message now is not to panic, England head coach Tuchel said: 'Yes, 100 per cent. We lost a test (friendly) match so there is no need to panic. 'We have (played) three qualification games, we have nine points and not conceded. We will be competitive in September, and we will go for two more victories – 100 per cent we will. 'We know more now, we are smarter. It's tough at the moment. I am the first one to dislike and hate losses like nothing else. 'But it's not next week. We don't go next week to the World Cup, we go in one year. 'I think by nature it will get more competitive in the nomination process and in the demands for the players to be nominated and to be with us in September, October and November because of the density, because we enter then a World Cup season. 'I think this comes by nature and from there we go.' England's performances this month have provided more questions than answers, including whether the weight of the shirt – something predecessor Gareth Southgate tried so hard to remove – was becoming an issue again. 'Not so sure what it means, this 'weight of the shirt',' Tuchel said. 'Expectations come naturally with results and the success that Gareth had with the group and with England. 'I think it was regular in quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals. It comes with it. 'You feel how opponents approach matches against us, what it means to beat us and to compete with us. I heard it because my changing room was next to the dressing room of Senegal. 'I just asked myself 'would we have celebrated in the same manner?' And I ask myself 'would I have been the first in the dressing room screaming and knocking my fist on some boxes?' 'Would the players then have joined or just said 'what's wrong with the gaffer? It is just a friendly match, he needs to calm down'. 'OK, I exaggerate a little bit but I include myself. I don't think my players would be so happy and so excited about it, and not because they are not, but maybe because they demand it from themselves. 'Maybe the latest history brings with it that they think everything is normal – we need to win, we need to win in style and we need to win comfortably, we need to beat everyone and it needs to look easy, we need to be exciting and everything mixed together feels a little bit like it holds us down because I see the smile, I see the liveliness in training. 'I tell you pretty much all the time that I am excited by what I see and I have a strong belief in what we can do. But we miss at the moment the translation to the pitch.'
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Harry Brook revels in leading ‘awesome' England after West Indies clean sweep
Brook has enjoyed a perfect start as limited-overs captain, winning all six games against the West Indies to overhaul the fortunes of a group that lost their last eight matches in the hangdog final days of Jos Buttler's tenure. Buoyed by matching 3-0 scorelines in the ODI and T20 formats, sealing the latter with a comfortable 37-run win in Southampton, Brook talked up England's chances of becoming a force to be reckoned with. With a T20 World Cup coming early next year, it is a challenge they will soon get the chance to meet. 'It's been a pretty good start hasn't it? I think almost every player in this team is a world-beater,' he said after his side scored 248 for three – the joint highest T20 international total on English soil. 'We want to get to a stage now where we're winning series in the first two or three games and we're nailing them in the others. We want to clean sweep people. We want to be the most dominant team in the world. 'I've said plenty of times the depth that we have in batting is just awesome. The top three, four, five can go hard and get us up to totals like we saw here. Then with the skills that the bowlers possess as well, it's worked beautifully. 'I feel like we're just such a team. I've never really felt that apart from in the Test side.' This went for four 😅 — England Cricket (@englandcricket) June 10, 2025 Brook prioritised international cricket and opted out of a lucrative Indian Premier League contract earlier this year, incurring a potential three-year ban having originally put his name into the auction. It is a lead he now wants others to follow. He said: 'Absolutely, that's what we want to try and do. We want people to almost turn around and say, 'I want to play for England and I'm happy to sit out of the odd franchise competition to do it'. 'I personally think playing for England is the pinnacle of cricket and to play for your country is the best thing you can do.' That is a luxury the West Indies can only dream of, following the premature retirement of Nicholas Pooran at just 29 years old. Financially, they lack the muscle to compete with the riches on offer in some leagues, but that is not an issue England face so acutely. Competition is only likely to increase if the case of Phil Salt and Jamie Smith is anything to go by. Salt has missed the West Indies series following the birth of his first child, but did make a whistle stop return to India for the IPL final, which he won with Royal Challengers Bengaluru. His place went to Smith, who scored 60 off just 26 balls at the Utilita Bowl to threaten the pecking order. 'The talent that we've got in English cricket in white ball cricket is just phenomenal. For Salty to miss out on a series and Smudge to do what he's done this series is just mega,' Brook added. 'The batting depth we have is just awesome.'
