France knows a little more about the calendar that awaits it in Qatar.

And the program of the Blues strongly resembles that of 2018. Australia, 42nd in the Fifa ranking, qualified Monday for the World Cup-2022 (November 21-December 18), in Group D of world champions, at the result of penalties against Peru (0-0, 5 pens to 4).

The Blues will start their tournament against this opponent on November 22, before facing Denmark on November 26 and Tunisia on November 30.

Australians and Danes were already in the French group at the 2018 World Cup.

A sixth participation for the “Socceroos”

For the Australian selection, it will be the sixth World Cup after 1974, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018, to the chagrin of some 10,000 noisy Peruvian fans present in the Ahmad bin Ali stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha. .

In the air-conditioned enclosure which will host seven matches during the tournament, the man of the match was substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne, who came on before the penalty shootout "in an attempt to destabilize the Peruvians", explained coach Graham Arnold.

He took it well since the experienced 33-year-old player, exercise specialist, was decisive.

After a first Australian shot from Martin Boyle stopped by Peruvian goalkeeper Pedro Gallese, Luis Advincula also missed his attempt by finding the post.

The two teams tied again after the first series of five shooters, it was Redmayne, whose clownish movements on his line against the shooters will be remembered, who sent his men to the World Cup by stopping the attempt by Alex Varela.

With this qualification, there is now only one ticket out of 32 to win for the first football World Cup in an Arab country.

On Tuesday, Costa Rica and New Zealand will attempt to enter the Group E survey, along with Spain, Germany and Japan.

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