Niamh Owens

He plays for Melbourne City in the A-Leagues.

He replaced Matty Ryan, who's played more than 100 caps for his country, who is usually the skipper of this Socceroos side, who started all 36 games for Levante this season.

And yet,

Pat Beach came in and was outstanding.

He made eight saves, equal most of any goalkeeper in World Cup history.

Oh, great save.

And then you look at that opening goal from Nestoria Irencunda and we know that this is a young man who was born in a refugee camp.

He grew up in Adelaide, the most creative, unpredictable firecracker kind of player that Australia has.

He signed for big money overseas, but the player who put the pass through to him, and what a beautiful ball it was, was Paul Ocon Engsler, who pays for Sydney FC in the A-League.

So you can see that there are names that are playing here in our National League in Australia that had been underestimated internationally, who, when given their opportunity, absolutely stood up.

A huge amount of risk, absolutely.

We heard a couple of little rumblings in the lead-up that

a couple of these guys would be starting.

And I dismissed them, Sam.

I thought, surely not.

It absolutely paid off.

By the end of this game, we had six A-League players on the park against the might of Turquoise, ranked 22 in the world, considered a dark horse by many people coming into this tournament.

So, yeah, he took some real risks, Tony Popovich.

But what we know about him is that every single thing he does is calculated.

He looks at everything in the lead up, Sam.