r/Aleague • u/wanderingrhino Melbourne Victory • 5d ago

Discussion What would be your all-time, Socceroo, penalty shootout lineup?

1 through to 5 and the Goalkeeper? Any era.

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u/MilkByHomelander Mornington SC 5d ago

Goalkeeper: Bosnich. His save rate is pretty decent, didn't face a lot of penalties though. Has a tidy 23% save rate across his career. Ryan would be my next option with a save rate of 16%. Schwarzer only has a save rate of 12%.

Penalty takers -

  1. Jedinak. Self explanatory. 16 penalties taken in his career. 16 penalties scored.

  2. Mooy. 14 penalties taken, only 1 was saved in his entire career.

  3. Viduka. Similar to Mooy. 10 Penalties taken, only 1 was missed in his career.

  4. Milligan. 16 Penalties taken, only 2 missed.

  5. Muscat. 30 Penalties taken. Only 2 missed.

Can't see the stats of most of the older guys, but statistically, these 5 are our best penalty takers, and Bosnich is the best penalty saver.

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u/acllive Melbourne Victory 5d ago

To be fair those who don’t take viduka wouldn’t select him purely for missing vs Uruguay

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u/DizzyBlackberry3999 5d ago edited 4d ago

I could be misremembering and can't be bothered looking it up, didn't he have a famously not-so-great Socceroos career compared to his club career? He was the anti-Miroslav Klose.

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u/11015h4d0wR34lm Western United RIP 4d ago

He fell into the trap all our forwards did in that era of the national team, playing up front on his own expected to make miracles happen in a side not playing to his strengths. Say what you want about Tim Cahill but what he was able to do single handedly in that set up was a massive effort, we probably don't make it to 3 world cups if it wasn't for the goals Tim managed to score.