No sleep until 5am: Socceroos’ focus turns to recovery after tiring World Cup travel

• Goalscorer Connor Metcalfe ‘pretty knackered’ after late-night flight

• Socceroos back in Oakland to continue preparations for US game

Socceroos goalscorer Connor Metcalfe admitted he hadn’t had the greatest sleep since Australia’s opening World Cup victory over Turkey.

“It’s crazy to score, to get the win. I mean, you couldn’t ask for a better start, could you?” he said, speaking back at the team’s training base in Oakland barely 22 hours after the historic scenes in Vancouver.

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