Australia v South Korea: Asian Cup quarter-final – live

Hello and welcome to the start of Australia’s Asian Cup campaign. Yes, I know they’re already played four games, but all things being equal they were always going to get past India, Syria, Uzbekistan and Indonesia. This match, a potential humdinger of a quarter-final against South Korea, brings a whole new level of difficulty.

It’s the tie of the round (probably) and a repeat of the 2015 final (definitely). James Troisi scored an extra-time winner in Sydney to continue South Korea’s frankly inexplicable wait for a third Asian Cup. They won the first two tournaments in 1956 and 1960. Since then nada. Zilch. The square root of bugger all. They’ve lost four finals in that time, most recently in 2015.

Whoever wins today will be strong favourites to reach this year’s final, with Jordan waiting in the semis. They beat Tajikistan 1-0 earlier today.

Australia need to play better than in their first four games, when they often struggled to break down deep-lying defences. In a perverse way, playing against better opposition might help them. Graham Arnold will certainly hope so: if Australia go out today, the tournament will have been an undeniable failure.

Kick off 6.30pm local / 2.30am AEDT / 3.30pm GMT.