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ALEX Wilkinson, your time is now. Time to show the boss that your nerves since coming into the national team squad are just that, and that now you are able to play like you usually do on the biggest stage.
Matthew Spiranovic, the apprenticeship is over. Always the great young hope, now you are the senior partner in this back four.
Jason Davidson and Ivan Franjic, you have the opportunity to become Socceroos first choices for a decade. The coach has faith in you – can you deliver?
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One thing Saturday's friendly with Croatia can deliver is a verdict on the back four that Ange Postecoglou has assembled. If there is a degree of excitement about the options going forward, it's the rearguard that can feel a national concern washing over it.
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Injuries are part of it – Curtis Good and Rhys Williams are missing and probably would have started.
Wilkinson – so long the epitome of A-League solidity, part of the most miserly defence around at the Mariners before switching to Korea – gets a chance he never expected.
Ryan McGowan and Alex Wilkinson are battling for the final centreback spot. Source: AFP
His former teammates in Gosford could never understand why he was neglected, but now he has to make up for lost time – by marking Mario Mandžukić who just happens to play for Bayern Munich, and proving to Postecoglou that he should stay in the side that will face Chile in the World Cup a week later.
Franjic and Davidson have a double burden, for in this system of Postecoglou's they must be auxiliary attackers as well as doubling back when defending demands it.
After this game there are just five more training sessions to fine tune the Australian strategy. Which is why the side's defence needs to show now that it is ready for coming storms, against world-class attacks.
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