Leckie to start on Socceroos wing

Socceroos gun Mat Leckie says he's open to playing up 前線 for Australia; just don't 推定する/予想する it to happen against Kuwait.

Graham Arnold will take 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 of the Socceroos for the first time in his second stint as 国家の team coach against the 湾 country on Tuesday morning (AEDT).

He's 約束d to bring more goals to a team that needs new attacking avenues.

最近の 出発s Mile Jedinak and Tim Cahill 与える/捧げるd a whopping 42 per cent of the goals (38 of 90) Australia has 得点する/非難する/20d in the past four years.

Leckie will be a big part of the new 得点する/非難する/20ing mix, and has been について言及するd by his boss as a 未来 選択 up 前線.

"When I heard about it, it was pretty exciting," he said.

"The way Arnie wants to play, playing in the middle and playing on the wings, he wants both to be 積極的な in that high area.

"It can be dangerous, 特に if we want to 攻撃する,衝突する them on the break."

Leckie was かもしれない Australia's best performer at the World Cup in Russia - just as he was in Brazil four years 以前 - but has just eight 国家の team goals in 56 外見s 示唆するing he hasn't 攻撃する,衝突する his 十分な goalscoring 可能性のある.

He's netted just once in 2018 for club Hertha Berlin, held 支援する this season by a slight 緊張する in his medial ligament.

Given that 後退, the 27-year-old said he 推定する/予想するd either Apostolos Giannou or Tomi Juric to start up 前線 against Kuwait.

"This week I've just trained as a winger. That's it," he said.

"We've got Apo and Tomi here that are number nines ... it would be just as much of a surprise for me (to play as a number nine) as it will be for everyone else."

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