The match was played on 13 June 2022 at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar (one of the host cities of the World Cup).

[5] The sides previously met four years earlier in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Group C, with Peru winning 2–0 when La Blanquirroja was already eliminated.

[6] Before the match, most football commentators lauded Peru as the better team and had low expectations of Australia, which struggled in the Asian qualifiers.

[7][8] This strategy succeeded, as Redmayne stopped the decisive penalty from Alex Valera diving low to his right-hand side.

[9] Graham Arnold's decision to sub Redmayne in evoked the 2014 FIFA World Cup quarter-final match between Costa Rica and the Netherlands, when Dutch coach Louis van Gaal subbed Jasper Cillessen off for Tim Krul in the 120th minute, as Krul successfully stopped two penalties to eliminate Costa Rica.