Paraguay v Australia

Hello and welcome to San Francisco Bay Area Stadium for our live coverage of Paraguay v Australia. This is as big as it gets with World Cup survival on the line. This is the right place to follow all of the action and rest assured we have it all covered.

Being the last round of games for Group D there are all sorts of scenarios that will play out. These sides will get through to the next stage with Australia finishing second and Paraguay finishing third should the match end up in a draw. If either team win they progress to the next stage by finishing second in the group. That leaves a nervous wait for the team that loses this match who will finish on 3 points – real cliffhanger territory. It’s all to play for and it doesn’t get any better than this.

Both teams enter this match with a 50% win-loss record. Australia defeated Turkiye 2-0 in their first match then were humbled 2-0 by the USA. Paraguay were thrashed 4-1 by the USA before defeating Turkiye 1-0 after being down to ten men.

AUSTRALIA (3-4-2-1): Patrick Beach; Lucas Herrington, Harry Souttar, Alessandro Circati; Jordan Bos, Jackson Irvine, Aiden O'Neill, Aziz Behich; Cristian Volpato, Connor Metcalfe; Nestory Irankunda.

AUSTRALIA SUBSTITUTES: Mathew Ryan, Paul Izzo, Milos Degenek, Jason Geria, Mohamed Toure, Ajdin Hrustic, Awer Mabil, Cameron Devlin, Kai Trewin, Cameron Burgess, Nishan Velupillay, Paul Okon-Engstler, Tete Yengi.

PARAGUAY (5-4-1): Orlando Gill (GK); Omar Alderete, Gustavo Gomez, Gustavo Velazquez, Alexandro Maidana, Juan Jose Caceres; Julio Enciso, Matias Galarza, Andres Cubas, Diego Gomez; Gabriel Avalos.