{"id":129734,"date":"2025-09-09T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129734\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:08:09","slug":"socceroos-v-new-zealand-live-updates-irankunda-toure-start-as-australia-aims-to-retain-soccer-ashes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129734\/","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos v New Zealand LIVE updates: Irankunda, Toure start as Australia aims to retain Soccer Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderful chance there to Kye Rowles &#8211; and only denied by an equally wonderful save from Max Crocombe, the All Whites goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Rowles did really well to time his jump between two defenders and get his header on target, but Crocombe throws a mit at it and makes the stop.<\/p>\n<p>A terrific cross, too, from Lewis Miller on the right made that possible.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly more encouraging signs from the Socceroos.<\/p>\n<p>AND NOW WE HAVE A GOAL! MOHAMED TOURE! ONE-ON-ONE! <\/p>\n<p>Cool as you like. His first international goal in his fourth cap. Connor Metcalfe provides the assist, pumping forward an excellently-weighted pass into space for Toure, who used his strength and speed to do the rest, holding off his defenders and finishing superbly.<\/p>\n<p>After 35 minutes, it\u2019s 1-0 to Australia!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohamed Toure. Remember the name.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/11211e4082b1509bf42d68359fc0794909de003c.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Toure. Remember the name.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wonderful chance there to Kye Rowles &#8211; and only denied by an equally wonderful save from Max Crocombe,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-129734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}