Craig Goodwin scored a stunner and arrange Australia’s equaliser as they beat China 3-1 in Tony Popovic’s first recreation in cost.
Popovic changed Graham Arnold in September and, regardless of seeing his crew fall behind in Thursday’s World Cup qualifier, was finally in a position to rejoice a convincing win.
Goodwin was enjoying in entrance of a hometown crowd in Adelaide and smashed in a long-range, left-footed strike to place Australia in entrance within the 53rd minute.
The 32-year-old had earlier crossed in for Lewis Miller to go residence on the stroke of half-time.
Miller’s objective cancelled out Xie Wenneng’s Twentieth-minute opener for China.
Substitute Nishan Velupillay accomplished the scoring late on, marking his debut in model simply 9 minutes after approaching.
A Goodwin Golazo
Craig Goodwin marks his first #Socceroos recreation in his hometown with a magnificence #AUSvCHN pic.twitter.com/Lt9jYmubIV
— Subway Socceroos (@Socceroos) October 10, 2024
Knowledge Debrief: Goodwin will get Australia going
Goodwin has had 12 photographs at objective and created 27 scoring possibilities for Australia in 2024 – the one Socceroos participant to have logged 10+ in each classes.
Australia received from behind in World Cup qualifying for the primary time since beating Syria in 2017, as they snapped a two-match scoreless run.
China, in the meantime, have misplaced their final 4 matches, conceding 13 targets in that run. They final misplaced 4 straight video games in 2003.
