Australia coach Martyn Crook enjoyed seeing his reserve players grasp their opportunity as they ran out 6-0 winners over Turkmenistan.TASHKENT – Australia coach Martyn Crook was delighted with the performance of his reserve players in the 6-0 win over Turkmenistan on Thursday as they ended their Group C campaign with a perfect three victories.
Crook made 10 changes to the squad that defeated China in their previous match and two goals from Danai Gapare, plus strikes from Ben Kantarovski, Teddy Yabio, Dimitrios Petratos and Marc Warren gave his side a comprehensive victory over their luckless opponents.
"It was a good game for us as the new players produced a good performance and we are definitely happy with the result at the end of the day," said Crook.
"We wanted to give some rest to the key players after securing our place at the top of the group. The new boys did well although they were playing for the first time together.
"We are pleased with the performance and the most important thing is that this performance will help us in our next game as we have a few injuries while we used players in different positions and we solved some problems," he added.
"The performance in general was good although it is the first time that these players have played together. They are talented boys and we wanted to give them a chance to play international football."
Turkmenistan coach Amanklych Kochumov admitted that the inexperience of his players played a major part in their previous defeats and today was no different as they made a lot of mistakes at the back.
"The problem that we have is that our players don't have experience at all," said Kochumov.
"Our players lacked the necessary experience to deal with every situation in the games and that's why we conceded a lot of goals and scored only once.
"We played against strong opposition and that's why we lost our strength from game to game," he added.
"We prepared well for the competition but as we played our matches, we lost our strength.
"We have learnt a lot from playing at such a tournament as our players gained some experience for the future and hopefully we can continue our ambitions to play in such big tournaments in the future."
Source:The AFC.com
