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Experimental Socceroos fall short against Korea Republic

A much-changed Australia side has fallen to a narrow 1-0 friendly defeat to Korea Republic in Busan.

Socceroos coach Graham Arnold rested all of his stars ahead of the match and handed two players their international debuts from the start in Korea.

After putting an early effort wide, Mitch Duke nearly put the green and gold ahead in the 18th minute with his header following a corner hitting the far post.

Australia were asking plenty of questions of South Korea in the first-half as the hosts just managed to deal wtih Australia's aerial threat.