Tony Popovic made wholesale changes for the second match in each of the October and November windows, swapping out six of his players from his starting XI on each occasion, presumably to freshen things up after the long-haul travel from Australia and difficult Thursday-Tuesday turnarounds. He’s done similar here, with three new players coming into the side that beat Indonesia 5-1 on Thursday night: Ryan Teague, Brandon Borrello and Milos Degenek. Teague is the big one. The 23-year-old was signed by Popovic at Melbourne Victory last season and has had a ripping campaign in the A-League. Believe it or not, he also has Chinese heritage, and was contacted by the Chinese Football Association to see if he’d be interested in representing them. He said no, and here he is, starting in midfield against them for the Socceroos. He replaces Aiden O’Neill, while Borrello comes in for the injured Adam Taggart up top and Degenek relieves Kye Rowles in the back three. Again, there’s no room in the squad for Nectarios Triantis or Marco Tilio. As for China, the above names won’t mean a whole heap to you, most likely - but they are missing their preferred starting centre-backs as well as winger Liangming Lin, who was red-carded in their last-start 1-0 defeat to Saudi Arabia. So they are definitely not at full strength, and are there for the taking if the Socceroos are good enough.