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  • Bridge Gives Wanderers Four In A Row

    mack

    By mack

    A late Mark Bridge winner gave the Wanderers a deserved 2-1 win against Wellington tonight.

     

    Western Sydney Wanderers continued their Spanish revolution with their fourth win on the trot, with marquee striker Federico Piovaccari scoring his second goal in as many games. 8 minutes in a Wanderers foul on the edge of the penalty area saw Michael McGlinchey take aim at Andrew Redmayne's goal. Stupidly for the Phoenix, with McGlinchey always going to shoot on goal, they sent forward both their central defenders, leaving them hopelessly outnumbered at the back.

     

    When McGlinchey smashed his shot off the crossbar, it rebounded to the feet of Mitch Nichols, who aimed a ball forward for Dario Vidosic, the two covering Wellington defenders got involved in a horrible tangle and the ball rolled back to Nichols. The star attacking midfielder played a simple ball to Mark Bridge, with a two on the keeper situation Bridge held the ball long enough to draw the keeper, his lay off to Piovaccari gave him a tap-in to open the scoring.

     

    15 minutes in and the Wanderers should have been two up. A corner for the Wanderers was played in towards the near post, Wellington cleared the ball into the path of Scott Jamieson, and the fullback fired a 25 yard rocket that whistled past Glen Moss, but referee Strebre Delovski inexplicably pulled the goal back for a Wellington foul, judging Piovaccari to have fouled the Wellington defence in the build up.

     

    3 minutes later Wellington had their own illegitimate goal, only this time it was allowed by the referees. Maltese International Manny Muscat cut back onto his favoured right foot, fired across the keeper, through the legs of a team-mate and watched his shot fly past Redmayne. Replays showed McGlinchey was in an offside position and was positioned right in front of the goalkeeper, and should have seen the goal ruled out.

     

    The second half built into the Wanderers favour as time ticked by, their momentum running towards a seemingly inevitable goal. It was Wanderers top goal scorer Mark Bridge who stepped up. A Wanderers corner flicked on at the near post, Bridge skipped past Roy Krishna, and with no Wellington player closing him down, took a touch to put the ball on his right foot to let him blast into the roof of the net from point blank range.

     

    On another day the match would have ended 3-0, but in the end the Wanderers got the result they deserved, catapulting the Red & Black into 3rd position on the A-League Premiership ladder.

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    Guest redwhiteblack

    Guest redwhiteblack

    Posted

    Thanks to danielcarr for the tickets, me and my mate enjoyed the game thoroughly!

     

    Few brief notes:

     

    - RBB sounded flat for 95% of the game.

    - Wanderers dominated yet again, but struggled when it came to execution.

    - Ironic that our first goal came from a counter attack, something we've moved away from.

    - We are definitely in the top 4 sides of the comp.

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    DCWSW

    Caught the last 15mins of the game after I got back from grade...

     

    From what I could tell seemed like we had dominated most the match, however they were very physical and the game was constantly stopping all the time. Robbie Slater wasn't too impressed in regards to that. 

     

    I was ecstatic when Fathead scored! So happy and I hope our run keeps on going!!!

     

    See you all in Gosford!  :grouphug:

     

    Edit: The crowd figure was a bit disappointing I thought

     

    Thanks to danielcarr for the tickets, me and my mate enjoyed the game thoroughly!

    Few brief notes:

    - RBB sounded flat for 95% of the game.
    - Wanderers dominated yet again, but struggled when it came to execution.
    - Ironic that our first goal came from a counter attack, something we've moved away from.
    - We are definitely in the top 4 sides of the comp.

     

    No worries  :meep:  glad you and your mate had a good time

    Edited by danielcarr
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    Smoggy

    Great win, persevered against a well organised outfit and kept on going right until the end, we deserved all 3 points and now 4 in a row. Up to 3rd and above ESFC, perhaps temporarily, but still great.

     

    The stands seems to have lost that connection to the RBB that we had in the first few season. Even the east stand felt a little flat. Whole stadium just needs a kick up the arse.  

     

    The team deserved a bit of a bigger attendance also.

    Edited by WSWBoro
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    Nnnnnathan12

    Were there flare buckets????

     

    I saw none maybe they were hidden behind the Marconi sponsorship signs.

     

    Also the pat down that I got from the security guard was barely a pat down at all, a couple of taps on my side and that was it.

     

    Not complaining,

    Just an observation

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    hawks2767

    Once again I noticed practically no police in the RBB and guess what, there wasn't an issue...

     

    WSW fans 1 NSWpol 0

     

    Well in.

    Might have had something to do with having 2 Senators in the RBB for the match to witness it first hand.

     

    David Leyonhjelm and Sam Dastyari.

     

     

    As for the atmosphere, yeah the RBB was flat until the last 10 minutes - it seems to be Bay56 putting in and 57/58 from where I stood were just standing there.

     

    No we weren't outsung by the Phoenix fans, the smurf idiot who posted that on Twitter is a fool.

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    Guest redwhiteblack

    Guest redwhiteblack

    Posted

     

    Once again I noticed practically no police in the RBB and guess what, there wasn't an issue...

     

    WSW fans 1 NSWpol 0

     

    Well in.

    Might have had something to do with having 2 Senators in the RBB for the match to witness it first hand.

     

    David Leyonhjelm and Sam Dastyari.

     

     

    As for the atmosphere, yeah the RBB was flat until the last 10 minutes - it seems to be Bay56 putting in and 57/58 from where I stood were just standing there.

     

    No we weren't outsung by the Phoenix fans, the smurf idiot who posted that on Twitter is a fool.

    There was a period of time (about a minute) in the second half where, yes, the 20 odd Nix supporters were out singing the RBB. I was sitting behind the WSW bench and they were easily more clearer to hear.

     

    Have Wanderers fans slipped into mediocrity?

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    jockman

    Game of 2 halves :meep:

     

    Thought we dominated the first half could have scored 2-3,  anybody know why the  fantastic long range shot  of a second goal was disallowed, still not sure ?  Generous  pass from Bridge to Pio for his tap in goal. Liked his celebration afterwards could see how happy he was, perhaps this will get the monkey off his back .   Second half they closed us down very quickly didn't let us play our passing game,  lost control of the midfield for periods,  they looked very dangerous. Thought we were going to concede 2nd goal after Redmayne made shocking handling error which led to a corner which they hit the cross bar from .. thought he had a shocking game except for 1 save second half  , so  glad the wood work saved us. 

    Great goal from Bridge.. on the counter attack.

    Romeo IMO did not have much impact when he came on. poor game ...

    is it just me or did the RBB seem very thinly spread and a bit flat for much  of the game today

     

     

    Generally very happy though-  we have that winning feeling back. looking forward to next weeks trip to Gosford. Hopefully after this string of wins  we will see a decent traveling support..

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    Guest mickisnot

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    Theguyyouwishyouwere, please spam this forum with that aids ridden photo of bridgey that is also your avatar.

     

    His performance was spectacular, I would of given him man of the match even if he didn't score! A total weapon up front with tenacity in defence.

     

    Re-Edit

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    JackDoff

    Were there flare buckets????

    I saw none maybe they were hidden behind the Marconi sponsorship signs.

    Also the pat down that I got from the security guard was barely a pat down at all, a couple of taps on my side and that was it.

    Not complaining,

    Just an observation

    Maybe you weren't his type!!! :P
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    marron

     

     

    Once again I noticed practically no police in the RBB and guess what, there wasn't an issue...

     

    WSW fans 1 NSWpol 0

     

    Well in.

    Might have had something to do with having 2 Senators in the RBB for the match to witness it first hand.

     

    David Leyonhjelm and Sam Dastyari.

     

     

    As for the atmosphere, yeah the RBB was flat until the last 10 minutes - it seems to be Bay56 putting in and 57/58 from where I stood were just standing there.

     

    No we weren't outsung by the Phoenix fans, the smurf idiot who posted that on Twitter is a fool.

    There was a period of time (about a minute) in the second half where, yes, the 20 odd Nix supporters were out singing the RBB. I was sitting behind the WSW bench and they were easily more clearer to hear.

     

    Have Wanderers fans slipped into mediocrity?

    Stood near them for a lot of the 2nd half, kids in the jumping castle.

     

    didn't hear a thing. Was it between chants or something?

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    Guest redwhiteblack

    Guest redwhiteblack

    Posted

     

     

     

    Once again I noticed practically no police in the RBB and guess what, there wasn't an issue...

     

    WSW fans 1 NSWpol 0

     

    Well in.

    Might have had something to do with having 2 Senators in the RBB for the match to witness it first hand.

     

    David Leyonhjelm and Sam Dastyari.

     

     

    As for the atmosphere, yeah the RBB was flat until the last 10 minutes - it seems to be Bay56 putting in and 57/58 from where I stood were just standing there.

     

    No we weren't outsung by the Phoenix fans, the smurf idiot who posted that on Twitter is a fool.

    There was a period of time (about a minute) in the second half where, yes, the 20 odd Nix supporters were out singing the RBB. I was sitting behind the WSW bench and they were easily more clearer to hear.

     

    Have Wanderers fans slipped into mediocrity?

    Stood near them for a lot of the 2nd half, kids in the jumping castle.

     

    didn't hear a thing. Was it between chants or something?

    No, i think it was during our second edition of dale cavese (can't remember exactly what time).

     

    The rbb was just very flat and monotonous. The nix fans, to their credit, were loud and clear (albeit for about 60 seconds).

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