Australia

‘Home advantage is a big thing’: Socceroos challenge Saudi Arabia | Emma Kemp

10-Nov-2021 16:30:09 | Guardian

It has been 763 days since Australia’s last home game, and this one could make or break their World Cup qualifying campaign

It was a point to which those in the Socceroos camp were happy to give air time, and rightly so.

“They’ve have been fortunate [in] that they’ve played all their World Cup qualifiers at home except for Oman,” coach Graham Arnold said on match day minus one. “We’ve played 11 out of 12 games away from home, they’ve played 11 out of 12 games at home.”