Neill urges fan wave of hostility Lucas Neill is calling on fans to create a hostile atmosphere to intimidate the opposition. Photo: Kirk Gilmour Socceroos captain Lucas Neill has implored fans in Melbourne and Sydney to create an atmosphere that will lift Australia to victory in its final two World Cup qualification matches this month. Australia's hopes of featuring at the 2014 World Cup hinge on what happens in the next fortnight, where the Socceroos host Jordan at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday before finishing at ANZ Stadium against Iraq on June 18. The Socceroos are third in their group and need to make it into the top two to automatically qualify for Brazil, with Japan having already booked one of the places. Holger Osieck's side is two points behind Oman but with a game in hand. If it wins both matches at home, it will finish second. Neill is calling on fans to create a hostile atmosphere to intimidate the opposition. "What Australia needs to take out of this game, from a supporter point of view, is that when you get 70,000 people driving the team on, for 90 minutes, that proverbially sucks the ball into the back of the net and that's what happened [for Japan]," Neill said. We weren't intimidated [by the crowd] but I know the teams we're going to come up against will be and that drives us on. Goals become bigger goals and it helps make moments in the game where you can put them under pressure. The Socceroos did remarkably well to block out the volume that enveloped Saitama Stadium on Tuesday night, where a wall of noise from the home fans threatened to become deafening every time Japan went near the goal. They kept the Japanese going all night and we need the same. We had moments against Japan where we couldn't get the ball out of our own half for 25 minutes and that was just the crowd, egging them on. That was a stark contrast to the dull atmosphere of Australia's most recent home match, 2-2 against Oman in Sydney, where just 34,000 fans showed up, perhaps indicating most fans thought the host would cruise to victory. But what we're talking about now is Australia going to Brazil to play in another World Cup. We just need that 12th man. While admitting he would have taken a draw before kick-off, Neill said he felt Australia deserved the win after Tommy Oar's goal in the 82nd minute put the Socceroos within touching distance of a win. As the way the game played out, I think we deserved all three. It feels like two points dropped," he said. Those three points might have been sealed had Matt McKay not conceded a penalty for handball in the dying stages, something he was struggling to come to terms with. "I felt horrible, [especially] because our performance was good," McKay said. Oar still can't believe how his effort nearly clinched victory. "It's all a bit of a blur," he said. I don't remember it taking a deflection, but it was a cross. ... The ball got caught in my feet a little bit and I was a little bit fortunate to dig it out. It fell well as I moved into the box and then it went in.