Die Mannschaft made heavy weather of beating Australia in their opening game, eventually prevailing 3-2 but not before chinks in their defence were exposed.
"Chile have fantastic individual players and are flexible tactically like few other teams, they can switch things around several times during a match".
Cameroon manager Hugo Broos believes only a win against Australia can give them hope of progressing in the Confederations Cup. But against a top quality Chile side, the Lions were seriously out of their depth and were rightly dismantled easily, even if belatedly.
Meanwhile, Australia will play Cameroon in St Petersburg tonight with both teams knowing they can ill afford another loss.
As such, it should be a brilliantly entertaining and high-quality clash at the Kazan Arena as two of the world's best sides go head-to-head.
"We've always said all along we're not coming to this tournament with 12 or 13 players".
"Australia likes to play very direct with not many combinations and they try to be ASAP at goal", Broos said.
Ange Postecoglou and Mark Milligan are speaking to media ahead of our match against Cameroon.
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That was shortly after Saudi Arabia and its partners cut ties with Qatar and blocked air, sea and land traffic to the peninsular nation.
Ange Postecoglou has signalled changes ahead of the match, and a strong showing off the bench against Germany means Kruse is in the hunt for a starting berth. But, Postecoglou's side remained true to its identity to give the World Champions a run for their money before going down 3-2 in hard fought contest.
The AAMI Park move would break Sydney's stranglehold on key Socceroos qualifiers and be the first time Melbourne has hosted a live decider since the 2001 qualifier against Uruguay. However, this will also create space for players to exploit.
"But ultimately it will still come back down to [us]".
"After the World Cup title in 2014, we need to now generate a new competitive situation and need to make changes". And he, and Germany, are blessed with the concurrent UEFA Euro U-21 Championships in Poland, where the pool is expanded even more.
Cameroon are not carrying a lot of momentum into the match, having lost three of their last four matches.
There's much on the line in Thursday's Confederations Cup clash between Cameroon and Australia - or at least as much as there can be in this glorified friendly tournament.
A goal on Thursday against the Indomitable Lions will make Tim Cahill the second oldest scorer in the competition's history (37 years 198 days), behind Lothar Matthaus (38 goals 129 days).
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