According to the correspondent of Tasnim News Agency from Doha, Graham Arnold, the head coach of the Australian national football team, said in a press conference before the match against South Korea in the quarter-finals of the Asian Nations Cup: the most important thing is for the players to be refreshed. We gave our players a day off to let their energy return. We are ready for tomorrow’s game and we have many choices. They’ve had a good workout and have a lot of energy, which is what I want. We believe in ourselves and we want to enjoy and win.
In response to South Korea’s scoring in the final minutes of the match against Saudi Arabia, he said: We must focus a lot. We have worked on Korea’s strengths. We are ready defensively and we had a good performance in our previous game, but we have to see what football wants for us tomorrow.
Australia’s head coach stated: Australia and Korea are close in terms of ranking. We have improved our performance and we want to make Australians happy tomorrow and make them proud. We have to be calm, play football and concentrate.
Arnold said about his strategy to deal with Korea’s speed on the offensive line: We have to put pressure on them when they have the ball. The Koreans are technical players and we have to press for the whole 90 minutes.