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  • Santalab Seals Dominant Win On Coast

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    By mack

    Super sub Brendon Santalab scored a 65th minute goal that put the Wanderers ahead, with Mitch Nichols providing the sealer in the 90th minute.

     

    The Western Sydney Wanderers produced another dominant performance to go joint top of the A-League despite a late Mariners comeback, with the Red & Black proving too good for the hosts in Gosford this afternoon.

     

    After coming on in the 58th minute for Dario Vidosic, Santalab latched onto a superb through ball by Mitch Nichols, streamed in on goal before firing past Paul Izzo from the edge of the penalty area to open the scoring.

     

    Central Coast came on very strong in the last 10 minutes, throwing men forward in search of an equaliser. Their best chance of the game came from Nick Fitzgerald, who had his shot denied by an outstanding reflex save from Andrew Redmayne that arguably saved all 3 points for the Wanderers.

    In the dying seconds of the game the Wanderers finally sealed the match, Jaushua Sotirio drew several defenders, Mitch Nichols was in acres of space on the penalty spot, Sotirio knocked through to the attacking midfielder. Nichols' shot was utterly dreadful, but with Izzo diving to his right, the ball dribbled over the line in one of the worst quality goals in the history of the A-League. Even Nichols himself looked embarrassed to have scored, but in the end they all count and the game was won for the Wanderers.

     

    As with the other matches in this round, the RBB and Yellow Army, the respective active support groups staged their own protests due to the FFA's unjust ban process, and their failure to support football and it's supporters after the vehement and disgusting attacks on the sport from the anti-football media in the past week. The RBB left the ground in the 30th minute, with both the RBB & Yellow Army unveiling protest banners against the FFA. With Damien de Bohun refusing to bring in a just and fair, independent appeal process, and once again failing to defend the supporters, it is likely these protests will continue into further matches of the A-League season.

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    KGee

    Time to launch spurious attacks on Hyundai through social media. It's clear they support FFA stance. Hit em where it really hurts.

     

    Would have been proud of that Mitch shot myself.

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    GD07

    My other half dropped her RBB scarf on the way out of the leagues club. Anyone spot it/pick it up?

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    Guest mickisnot

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    Slightly worrying we let Mariners back into the game after the we got up. But man we dominated the first half.

     

    Castelen had some good moments on the ball. So very unlucky not to get a goal in the first half. The referee didn't protect him at all. There were some disgusting challenges on him that went unnoticed.

     

    Vidosic unfortunately wasn't his best. He wasn't expecting to start though.

     

    Nichols though. Our boy Nichols.

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    bombagol
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    How good is that Andreu - Dimas combination in the middle?

     

    Almost jizzed my pants every time they passed the ball around and made the Mariners players run around like headless chooks!

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    TheDugong

    Unfortunately it's the type of game Fred likely would have thrived in with the open space he would have gotten.  No Fred or Fathead and we still put 2 in and looked threatening all game.  Also thought Neville put in a solid shift today.

     

    We have now won more in a row than total games won last season.

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    hawks2767

    Lucky to come away with a win there, they were chasing a result harder than we were.

     

    Gotta step it up next week, Brisbane are coming off a lacklustre performance - if we can get something out of the next 2 games I'll believe we are the real deal.

     

    Good signs though.

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    Prydzopolis

    5 in a row :woah::xbop:

     

    Injuries are a bit of a concern for us, just after it seems like we were seeming to get the full team back to 100% health. We lost Pio to a groin last week, Bridge we lost in the warm (news?) & on the radio they were saying Vidosic was clutching his hamstring as he was walking off (anyone got any news on this?).

     

    Oh & despite not being an active supporter, I walked out with the others who were protesting. On our way home, I didn't mind listening to Lawrie Mckinna who was pretty spot on with everything but the main guy who was commentating was a complete muppet. His most annoying trait would be getting excited for every time a team attacked a goal but it would be followed by silence (of what felt like 10 seconds) whilst we were all hanging out to hear what happened :nono: FFS, tell us what is bloody happening mate!! It was along the lines of " X passes to Y, oh that was a good pass & now HE IS IN SOME SPACE. HE TAKES A TOUCH AND.... (Few seconds later) goal kick to the Mariners :angrycovic: A few of the comments he made were along the lines of "great to see the referee not go to his pocket regularly" (despite Castelen getting chopped at every opportunity), described Castelen as a work horse (FFS that is bridge not Castelen), would say CasteLAND or SantaLAAAB & that Mariners dominated the second half. 90 minutes couldn't come soon enough!

     

    Enough of the scrappy wins & not playing to our potential. Time to be ruthless & punish our opponent every time they give a chance to us!

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    Prydzopolis

     

    Oh & despite not being an active supporter, I walked out with the others who were protesting.

     

    I owe you a beer.
    Not necessary, I'm just sick of FFA treating football fans like this. It's time to make a stand.

     

    De Bohun aint marching. **** that.

    Theres a chance no one will march
    Can you imagine the security contingent the guy will need to have to be anywhere near us? :lol:
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    ptwsw

    Slightly worrying we let Mariners back into the game after the we got up. But man we dominated the first half.

     

    Castelen had some good moments on the ball. So very unlucky not to get a goal in the first half. The referee didn't protect him at all. There were some disgusting challenges on him that went unnoticed.

     

    Vidosic unfortunately wasn't his best. He wasn't expecting to start though.

     

    Nichols though. Our boy Nichols.

    Mick, get it right, our boy, KING MITCH! :yahoo:

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