Time to 配達する for Socceroos on home 国／地域
By Nick Mulvenney
SYDNEY, Jan 1 (Reuters) - After a year of いつかs painful 移行 and an encouraging yet 最終的に pointless World Cup （選挙などの）運動をする, Australia enter 2015 knowing that 約束 no longer counts for anything and only results 事柄.
Ange Postecoglou, who has managed the 精密検査する of the Socceroos squad, was 手渡すd just one 固める／コンクリート results-based goal when he took over as coach on a five-year 取引，協定 in October 2013: to make Australia the number one team in Asia.
The 49-year-old has his chance to 配達する that 客観的な on home 国／地域 in Sydney on Jan. 31 and much of the success of the 16th Asian Cup will depend on how の近くに he comes to doing it.
Gone are all but three of the "golden 世代" squad that got the Socceroos to the last eight of the Asian Cup in 2007 soon after Australia switched from the Oceania 連合 in search of more 競争の激しい football.
Little more than a handful of players also now remain from the squad which got to the final at the second 試みる／企てる in Qatar in 2011, only to lose in heartbreaking fashion to a Japan goal in extra time.
Postecoglou has a （疑いを）晴らす 見通し of the sort of 圧力（をかける）ing, attacking football he wants his young team to play but the results so far have been いっそう少なく than impressive.
One 勝利，勝つ in 11 matches this year -- even if two 敗北・負かすs （機の）カム after brilliant 業績／成果s against Chile and the Netherlands at the World Cup in Brazil -- makes pretty stark reading for Socceroos fan s.
Starker still is the fact that eight of the 12 goals Australia have netted since Postecoglou took over have come from かつてない 主要な scorer Tim Cahill.
Even if Cahill looks anything but on the 病弱な even at the age of 35, 依存 on one player for such an important element of footballing success opens up the hosts to the vagaries of 傷害 and form in what is a short tournament.
Postecoglou's 職業 is の中で the toughest in world football given a 大多数 of his players ply their 貿易（する） in Europe and he will certainly relish having them together, and time-adjusted, in the pre-tournament training （軍の）野営地，陣営.
There is also home advantage, which can be a 二塁打-辛勝する／優位d sword but will surely work in Australia's favour if they can build up some 勢い in their opener against Kuwait on Jan. 9 and second Group A 遠出 four days later against Oman.
The draw was not 肉親，親類d to the Australians, however, and their blockbuster 対決 with South Korea in Brisbane on Jan. 17 could go a long way to deciding whether they can be the first host nation to 勝利，勝つ an Asian Cup since Japan in 1992. (Editing by John O'Brien)
