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Coach Tony Popovic has challenged the Socceroos to find another gear as Australia prepared for a high-stakes World Cup clash with co-hosts the United States.
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00:00I think the US team has a good mix of the two. Very powerful, very athletic. So we know it
00:06will
00:07be a different type of challenge. Playing the host nation here as well is a wonderful challenge,
00:12but also a wonderful opportunity for us. And we know that we need to be better than we were
00:20against Turquia to get the result we want. You know, good teams don't have to communicate
00:25too much when it's in your low block and people know where to be on and off the ball. So
00:32yeah,
00:32of course, you know, we're going to need to be switched on for that tomorrow. We have a little
00:37bit of a taste of it. We played Mexico a few weeks ago and that kind of atmosphere is going
00:42to be
00:42loud. We know that coming into it. But yeah, it's just one we're looking forward to. They are a very
00:47strong team. We believe in what they are doing. That is made difficult to prepare the game again
00:53Australia because they have different registers of play. But for me, the most important thing is
00:59we need to believe in the same way that they believe if we want to compete because they are
01:03in the same way that they compete really well.
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