Also interesting to see Popovic go with Miller in his first game in charge. It will be the right back’s first minutes for the Socceroos since his disastrous appearance off the bench in the Asian Cup quarter-finals, where he gave away the penalty and free kick that saw South Korea equalise and then take the lead against Australia.

The 24-year-old has been seeing the field pretty regularly with Hibernian in Scotland this season, which has perhaps given him the edge over the other natural right back in the side, Jason Geria.

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