Match report: Bahrain 2-2 Australia
Updated
Tony Popovic's reaction
There are a lot of emotions now because a lot of things happened in the match. We had a couple of good chances to make it 2-0 that we didn’t capitalise on, then we gave away a couple of goals very quickly. But we showed great character to come back.
[On Kusini Yengi’s performance] Yeah it was good. He’s there to score goals so getting a couple of goals… I’d have liked him to score the chance at 1-0 when the ball was cut back, because that would have been game over. But like I said, great character to come back, we didn’t drop our heads and it’s a good point.
[On Hayden Matthews] He’s a young boy coming through, playing in difficult conditions here. I thought he equipped himself really well; he was unfortunate with the second goal but he’s got a bright future.
[On the state of play in Group C] Everyone’s finding it hard to get consecutive results. We’ll take the point, reflect and move on to March against Indonesica.
