Socceroos crash back to earth after being humbled by superior USA | Jack Snape (opens in new tab)

The swagger Australia offered in their opener against Turkey was gone and for much for the game in Seattle they looked second best and shellshockedAustralia looked like a bunch of bananas in their all-yellow strip against the USA, and it is tempting to call this comprehensive 2-0 defeat a banana skin in the Socceroos’ World Cup campaign. In truth, however, this was less a slip up than a humbling, and the visitors proved ripe opposition as the hosts came and took what they wanted.After the cel...