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  • Grand Final Bound Wanderers Lose To Mariners

    mack

    By mack (edited)

    The Western Sydney Wanderers capitulated to a pathetic 2-0 home loss against the lowly Central Coast Mariners this afternoon at Spotless Stadium.

    After Tony Popovic's striker-less lineup spent 45 minute fumbling with the ball in midfield then the Mariners pounced in the second half with 2 goals to Roy O'Donovan. The Wanderers look devoid of shape and structure in the first half, with numerous occasions holding the ball in midfield 4 or 5 players crammed into the wing, leaving no-one in the middle to attack balls into the box or to make runs off the shoulder of the last defender. Mitch Nichols did little more than get his GPS tracking meters up, as his darting forward, sideways, backwards resulted in confusing the rest of the attackers and leaving them with no forward target.

    If the first half was poor, the second was calamitous. Jonathan Aspro, who has been one of the more solid performers for the Wanderers this season gifted his opponents a chance from the penalty spot. As the Mariners lined up a corner kick, Aspro wrapped up Liam Rose in a bear hug and a mere 1 second after the corner was taken Kris Griffiths-Jones was pointing to the spot. O'Donovan blasted the penalty pasted Vedran Janjetovic to open the scoring in the 65th minute.

    Brendon Santlab was finally bought on and he could not be the miracle man once again this season. He had two clear chances to put the Wanderers on the board, with one he put a diving header straight at Paul Izzo, and a second volleyed effort he put wide.

    O'Donovan then sealed the points. The Mariners launched a somewhat aimless ball over the top of the Wanderers defence, and O'Donovan ran onto the ball and took advantage of horrendous positioning from Vedran Janjetovic to chip the ex-Sydney FC keeper into an open goal.

    The Sydney Derby looms large next week, if the Wanderers lose then Popovic needs to resign or be sacked by the board. Enough is enough. Sentimentality does not win new trophies.

    Edited by mack

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    Smoggy

    Scratching my head over that performance and tactics. Starting Mitch as the stricker...ok....that was never going to work. Never got Nico in to the game. Same old **** short corners when we have a big target man ffs No idea with build up play as per usual. Just **** poor across the park and beaten by a poor team.

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    Midyandy

    First time this season at Soul-less staduim this season due being away with work, might really struggle again, will always follow this team but that was just soul destroying. Why did Jumpei stay on as well?

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    JayZko

     

    We played well just didn't take our chances and conceded two sloppy goals. A bit more luck and we would have won 9-0. We'll take the positives out of it and move forward

    Lol you have to shoot at least 9 times to score 9
    haha is funny cause is true
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    Smoggy

    We played well just didn't take our chances and conceded two sloppy goals. A bit more luck and we would have won 9-0. We'll take the positives out of it and move forward

    LOL!

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    MeurantsLane

    This cleanout that happens every season on order to deprive Popa of any accountability really doesn't work does it?  

     

    I don't know if that rumour that the Smurf shill journo about him going to Shanghai is true but he can go now if he likes.  

     

    It's been too long, time for a different coaching perspective.  

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    Themumf

    It's just a really s*** experience all round. Graveyard venue, the usual f****** c*** heros checking passes to get into bats even either side of active. Then getting stung 15 bucks to 2 ice creams. More heros checking passes while I am trying to carry said gold-plated ice creams back to seats. Then there is the team's performance. Yeah. S*** night at the football. Again. Stuff this.

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    Smoggy

    Unless something changes on and off the pitch attendances are going to keep on falling away at SOP i know we have a flash new stadium coming but we risk undoing all the hardwork that has gone in to building this club we all love...this stadium is killing us but that shouldnt be an excuse for the shyte served up on the pitch.

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    Hiriser

    I'm not even annoyed anymore at this point. Totally not surprised we got beat. I'm just glad it was a really comfortable afternoon at the ground. RBB were great today. I look forward to losing 3nil next week but a draw would be a miracle.

     

    Worst game at the club from Nico. Underhit all his passes first half because of the pitch and over hit all his passes 2nd half.

     

    Didn't think Jumpei could get any worse. I was wrong.

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    JayZko

    Unless something changes on and off the pitch attendances are going to keep on falling away at SOP i know we have a fash new stadium coming but we risk undoing all the hardwork that has gone in to building this club we all love...this stadium is killing us but that shouldnt be an excuse for the shyte served up on the pitch.

    ummm senior rbb members please next week when we lose the derby admit the final straw we can't go on we need to be beating esfc and mvc that's our bread and butter
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    JackDoff

    Unless something changes on and off the pitch attendances are going to keep on falling away at SOP i know we have a flash new stadium coming but we risk undoing all the hardwork that has gone in to building this club we all love...this stadium is killing us but that shouldnt be an excuse for the shyte served up on the pitch.

    Not to mention the shyte pitch itself! FMD I've seen goats grazing in paddocks better than that .

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    Hiriser

    If we had Roy O'Donovan today we win.

     

    Dimas appears to have checked out while Jumpei is checking his account for his marquee wages.

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    tardotz

    Jumpei did have a couple of good touches in the 1st half. The second half I cannot remember any of our players doing anything good.

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