Australia 1-0 Bahrain

Jedinak once again the key man

January 18, 2011
By Brett Taylor
(Archive)
Once again, Australia fell back on their superior mental resilience and outstanding goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer to hold on in a match that they were expected to comfortably dominate. Bahrain mounted a stirring fightback in the second half of their Asian Cup Group C finale but they eventually fizzled out, leaving Mile Jedinak's first-half super-strike as the difference between the two teams at a rain-soaked Al Sadd Stadium.

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