I hate games being decided by penalty shootouts as it's meant to be a team sport not individual roulette. However, ignoring that, the failure at this World Cup ultimately comes back to head office. Both men's and women's national teams lost their respective head coach within 6 months prior to the Cup. So 4 years of planning and playing a certain gamestyle especially defensively are just thrown out. No team is going to go far in that scenario. The FFA and its culture at the top have a lot to answer for.