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Booters brace for Mission Australia

Sports Reporter
Bangladesh coach Lodewijk de Kruif said his side is not taking the tour of Australia for the World Cup and Asian Cup Qualifier not just as a case of'being there', rather they want to make the hosts feel their presence, no matter what the final result turns out to be.
The Bangladesh team will flying off to for Kuala Lumpur at the early hours of Thursday and will play a friendly match against the MalaysiansonAugust29 before travelling to Perth where they will be hosted by the Socceroos on Septembers.
The match against the reigning Asian champions will be the biggest fixture for the men in red and green in recent years and whatever the scoreline turns out to be, it will be an enormous experience for them, feel the coach and his players.
"We are not going there as tourists. We are a professional team. We are going there to represent our country and that means we will fight, we will battle in every angle we can," said de Kruif while addressing the media at a press conference at the Bangladesh Football Federation House yesterday.
The 45-year coach, however, did not forget to mention that Australia are the number one team in Asia with high profile players who play their trade all over the world.
"We can't hide from the fact that Australia is a fantastic and highly rated team. I want to you to remember that my country (Holland) faced Australia in Brazil and beat them 3-2 in a difficult match," said de Kruif. "When we are going there, we are prepared and highly motivated. Nobody knows what will happen there but there is a big difference between Bangladesh and Australia in quality, education etc. That's what we have to know and we have to face.*
Australia are ranked 61st in the FIFA rankings, 109 rungs ahead Bangladesh, and have played the World Cup for four
times including the last three. In their World Cup Qualifiers opener, the Socceroos notched up a 2-1 win over Kyrgyzstan, who defeated Bangladesh 3-0 in Dhaka.
Having analysed the strength of Australia, de Kruif is mulling a counterattack based defensive strategy.
"Australia have a lot of strength in midfield and attack. You see how they
build up the game; every ball goes through their captain. The play is going on high speed. The players are changing their position frequently upfront. Midfield is playing significant role and speeding up the game," analysed de Kruif.
"What we have to do is to make the pitch very close, very small, very compact. When they come in that area we have to attack them, very hard and
tough, keep them from the goal and don't allow them come inside the box.
*85 per cent of our tactics would be regarding defensive organisation, because when we have the ball the only challenge we have is the quick transition, going for attack in 3-4-5 seconds. In that moment if we lose the ball again, (we will have to) come back again - very close and very compact," added de Kruif,
who will not be allowed to stand at the dugout due to a FIFA suspension.
The Dutch coach indicated that he may field wingers Zahid Hossain and Jewel Rana to capitalise on the opportunities if they get against Australia but he will certainly have some problems in backline, which looks vulnerable with the off-form players as well as having less central-back.