Cahill a favourite as Socceroos see off Syria

• Australia kick Syria 2-1 after extra-time in AFC Play-off
• Tim Cahill scores dual headers to pierce to 50 general goals
• Socceroos validate for Intercontinental Play-off

Tim Cahill kept Australia’s FIFA World Cup™ dreams alive with a stately headed double as Ange Postecoglou’s side kick Syria 2-1 after extra-time.

The goals in Sydney were a Socceroos captain and all-time streamer scorer’s 49th and 50th for his nation and set adult an Intercontinental Play-off opposite a fourth-placed group in a CONCACAF Zone.

Australia squeezed by a tough approach though, entrance from behind and fast some moving and formidable moments notwithstanding winning most of this epic AFC play-off.

@Tim_Cahill: cometh a hour, cometh a man
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— #WCQ ⚽️ (@FIFAWorldCup) October 10, 2017

They were behind inside 6 minutes, in fact, when a wandering Mark Milligan pass in midfield set adult a Syrian counter-attack. The visitors grasped their event to strike, with Tamer Mohamd sprinting by a heart of a Aussie counterclaim and feeding Omar Al Soma for a left-foot shot that sailed high into a net.

Australia weren’t behind for long, though, and it was no warn that Cahill was a male to transport them level. It was a stately equaliser too, with a maestro brazen streamer strenuously home during a finish of a sharp pierce on a right wing capped by a stately Mathew Leckie cross.

From that impulse onwards, a diversion was a story of finish mastery by Australia, who monopolised possession but always being means to find a approach by a packaged and well-organised Syrian defence. The Socceroos continued to onslaught even after Mahmoud Al Mawas was sent off for a second bookable corruption following a unreasonable plea on Robbie Kruse.

It took until additional time for a leader to be found and, again, it was that male Cahill. The Aussie favourite finished his half-century of general goals with nonetheless another header, display off his famous jump to approach home a looping Kruse cross.

Australia will now wait to learn who they will face in that Intercontinental Play-off, with their opponents set to be motionless by this evening’s CONCACAF subordinate fixtures. The Aussies will face a fourth-placed side in a ‘Hex’, with USA, Panama or Honduras all intensity opponents for them subsequent month.

Which @CONCACAF side will a @Socceroos face in their #WCQ play-off?
We’ll find out after currently … pic.twitter.com/lKwXVkX3Bc

— #WCQ ⚽️ (@FIFAWorldCup) October 10, 2017

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