Tim Cahill‘s goals in the first half and in overtime earned Australia a 2-1 win over Syria (for a 3-2 aggregate victory) in the Asian World Cup qualifying playoff, sending theSocceroos into a playoff for a 2018 World Cup berth against Concacaf’s fourth-place team, which will be Panama, Honduras or the USA.
The goals in Sydney were the Socceroos’ captain and all-timeleading scorer’s 49th and 50th for his country.