Archie Thompson

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343 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Whateley · Former Socceroo star Archie Thompson | (30.06.26) · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, look, we talked to Adam Peacock after the game.

He's watched a lot of football, and I've watched a lot of football in the Premier League, and those sort of things you let go.

But then FIFA is completely different.

I thought maybe a little bit soft.

But then you do see that he did kind of block the run of the goalkeeper, Anton, the German player.

And it was a great header from Jonathan Tarr.

But, yeah, it was a bit of luck for Paraguay.

But sometimes you've got to earn your luck.

And I think they earned their right to be put in an opportunity to win it.

And they won it in a penalty shootout, which is never the ideal way that you want to be knocked out of any competition.

But the way that they went through on that was just amazing in itself.

So this World Cup keeps throwing up upsets.

This is probably one of the biggest ones so far, but you feel like it's not going to be the last.

Well, listen here, I'll tell you the truth, mate.

When there was a penalty shootout, I reversed very quickly in terms of like, I don't want to take one.

Because I actually wasn't really a great penalty taker.

I think in my whole time with Melbourne Victory, I only took the two penalties.

And I did score both of them, but one I had to score on the second occasion because the key threat saved it.

So I never had the confidence to be able to take a penalty, whereas some of my teammates didn't feel that pressure.

They were confident to be able to take it from the penalty spot.

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