{"id":631,"date":"2019-03-01T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/2019\/03\/01\/mathew-leckie-strikes-for-hertha-berlin-in-boost-for-socceroos-asian-cup-campaign\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:31:05","slug":"mathew-leckie-strikes-for-hertha-berlin-in-boost-for-socceroos-asian-cup-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Mathew Leckie strikes for Hertha Berlin in boost for Socceroos Asian Cup campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian attacker is starting to hit form at the right time for his national team <\/p>\n

Mathew Leckie scored his second Bundesliga goal of the season in Hertha Berlin’s 2-2 home draw with Augsburg on Wednesday morning (AEDT).<\/p>\n

After Martin Hinteregger gave Augsburg an early lead, Leckie pulled one back for the German capital side on 28 minutes with a crisp finish following a cushioned pass from Davie Selke.<\/p>\n

Hertha then managed to take the lead three minutes later through Duda but couldn’t hold on for the victory as Koo Ja-Cheol earned a draw for Augsburg.<\/p>\n

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The result means Hertha sit in seventh place on the Bundesliga table, four\u00a0points out of the Champions League qualification places.<\/p>\n

Leckie’s return to form will be a welcome sight for Socceroos coach Graham Arnold as he prepares the national team for their defence of the Asian Cup next month.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old attacker is expected to play a vital role in an Australian team that is searching for goals since the retirement of talisman Tim Cahill.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian attacker is starting to hit form at the right time for his national team Mathew Leckie scored his second Bundesliga goal of the season in Hertha Berlin’s 2-2 home draw with Augsburg on Wednesday morning (AEDT). After Martin Hinteregger gave Augsburg an early lead, Leckie pulled one back for the German capital side…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}