{"id":3172,"date":"2018-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/uncategorised\/clone-craig-foster-slams-australias-approach-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:00:00","slug":"clone-craig-foster-slams-australias-approach-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.smooth.com.au\/news\/clone-craig-foster-slams-australias-approach-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Craig Foster, this is where Australia went wrong in the 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Australia reels over their fourth place result for the 2018 World Cup after losing 2-0 to Peru in the early hours of Wednesday morning, former player and SBS presenter, Craig Foster, has given some honest words of criticism about how he thinks the Socceroos performed in the comp, news.com.au <\/a>shares. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe important thing right now is that we are calm in looking at the campaign, at the way we approached it, and the way approached this match, and the way we approached Denmark and France and asking the question that every nation that goes out of a World Cup \u2013 certainly repeatedly, like us \u2013 has to ask, and that is: could we have done more?\u201d Foster said in his analysis of Australia\u2019s result. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question that we could have done more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Disappointingly, the Socceroos failed to score a goal in any of their World Cup matches this year, leaving them sitting at the bottom of their group behind France, Denmark and Peru. <\/p>\n

As Foster has shared, he feels that while the players \u201cgave everything\u201d<\/em>, the team behind the Australian side have failed to learn from the mistakes of former World Cup tournaments:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my view, we haven\u2019t learnt from the last four years and we\u2019ve come here and, what I said at half time was, according to the style of play, the guys executed it extremely well, but Australia\u2019s capable of more,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were capable of much more against Denmark and the real problem for Australia is that if we\u2019d actually won this game and gone through \u2026 I would have preferred that France won, so that we can feel more pain right now.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, it’s just another moment where everyone feels we almost got there. We walk away. We dust ourselves off and learn very little, if anything, and then move on to the next campaign.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Foster has stressed that he doesn\u2019t blame coach Bert van Marwijk for the result, stating that Australia has had a \u201cgutless approach\u201d <\/em>to games in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only critical thing right now, is that we take something out of this tournament,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c…The guys went and gave everything and you can see what they\u2019ve spent in pursuit of making their nation proud. That\u2019s normal.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know these guys are capable of that, but that wasn\u2019t what we\u2019re capable of in terms of a football country. I can\u2019t accept that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

"No question we could have done more… Australia is capable of more… it's too easy to blame van Marwijk… we have to decide how we're going to approach these tournaments." WATCH @Craig_Foster<\/a>'s analysis. #WorldCup<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aHyUQ1d15r<\/a><\/p>— SBS – The World Game (@TheWorldGame) June 26, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> \n