Western Sydney Wanderers vs Brisbane Roar 1/1/2020 7:30PM

Alex King is the ref for tomorrow night

15 minutes ago, SBW said:

Alex King is the ref for tomorrow night

Record under King (all away games)

v Melb Vic win

v Fraudsters loss

v Perth loss

Total wins under King - 2

Total losses under King - 4

Arnold has f***** us as usual

Ins: 8.Jordan O'DOHERTY (returns from injury), 11.Bruce KAMAU (returns from injury), 31.Noah PAGDEN (promoted), 59.Dean PELEKANOS (promoted).
Outs: 13.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS (national team), 17.Keanu BACCUS (national team), 19.Pirmin SCHWEGLER (suspension), 38.Presley ORTIZ (omitted)
Unavailable: 10.Radoslaw MAJEWSKI (knee), 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC (shoulder), 29.Daniel WILMERING (knee).

Pussycats squad

Goalkeepers: 1.Max CROCOMBE, 21.Jamie YOUNG

Defenders: 2.Scott NEVILLE, 4.Daniel BOWLES, 5.Tom ALDRED (c), 6.Macaulay GILLESPHEY, 15.Aaron REARDON, 19.Jack HINGERT, 22.Jake MCGING, 28.Izaack POWELL

Midfielders: 8.Jacob PEPPER, 13.Stefan MAUK, 25.Rahmat AKBARI, 26.Jay O’SHEA

Attackers: 7.Jai INGHAM, 9.Roy O’DONOVAN, 10.Bradden INMAN, 20.Aaron AMADI-HOLLOWAY, 23.Dylan WENZEL-HALLS, 30.Mirza MURATOVIC **2-4 to be omitted**

Ins: 7.Jai INGHAM (promoted), 15.Aaron REARDON (promoted), 22.Jake MCGING (promoted), 25.Rahmat AKBARI (promoted)

Outs: 12.Aiden O’NEILL (international duty)

Unavailable: 24.Connor O’TOOLE (international duty), 29.Jordan COURTNEY-PERKINS (knee – TBC)

Western Sydney Wanderers FC: 1.Daniel LOPAR (GK), 4.Dylan McGOWAN, 5.Daniel GEORGIEVSKI, 6.Matthew JURMAN, 7.Mitchell DUKE, 8.Jordan O'DOHERTY (returns from injury), 9.Nicolai MULLER, 11.Bruce KAMAU (returns from injury), 14.Alex MEIER, 21.Tarek ELRICH, 22.Nicolas SULLIVAN, 23.Kosta GROZOS, 27.Kwame YEBOAH, 31.Noah PAGDEN (promoted), 33.Tate RUSSELL, 34.Patrick ZIEGLER, 35.Mohamed ADAM, 40.Nicholas SUMAN (GK), 53.Mohamed AL-TAAY, 59.Dean PELEKANOS (promoted).

**2-4 to be omitted**

This won't be as easy as some people think, none of our games are anyway. First off we will have a brand new midfield with maybe only a couple a of training session together. A short turn around having played last Friday. As well as having played in temperatures in the mid to high 30's.

I think I'd start with this line up.

              Duke      Adam      Muller

             Ziegler   Meier      Sullivan

Georgievski    Jurman      McGowan     Elrich

                      Lopar

3 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

Got my three bottles of red in ready to go, another win in the bag, away with you Fowler no joy here for you boyo!

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the correct form of address in Fowler's home region is 'Cock'

3 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

Got my three bottles of cock in ready to go, another win in the bag, away with you Fowler no joy here for you boyo!

5 minutes ago, LeeMarvin said:

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the correct form of address in Fowler's home region is 'Cock'

I've tried to fix Jack's post - happy now?

We finished 2019 with a win..... let's hope we start 2020 with another win.

Happy New Year to all @ WSF 🍾🍾🍾

Looks like the Babbel Sackwatch thread has carried over here morphing into Wishful Thinking. We will continue to turn the corner and hold our place in top six. Nothing spectacular. Just plod plod

1 hour ago, DamnedUnited said:

Looks like the Babbel Sackwatch thread has carried over here morphing into Wishful Thinking. We will continue to turn the corner and hold our place in top six. Nothing spectacular. Just plod plod

Hold?

we currently are not top six... haven’t been for 3 weeks.

We will continue to sniff the stinky under carriage of those team just mediocre enough to languish at the bottom of the top 6

2 minutes ago, Upthehill said:

Hold?

we currently are not top six... haven’t been for 3 weeks.

We will continue to sniff the stinky under carriage of those team just mediocre enough to languish at the bottom of the top 6

 

Well we were 6th until the Fraudsters lost badly to the Nix. 

28 minutes ago, Upthehill said:

Hold?

we currently are not top six... haven’t been for 3 weeks.

We will continue to sniff the stinky under carriage of those teams just mediocre enough to languish at the bottom of the top 6

 

Bravo - UTH replaces Manfred as our resident wordsmith!  

Aldred came off early last game so may not play. 

I have read that Akbari whilst named may be injured.

I'm expecting Muller to run at Bowles with Bowles to pick up at least a yellow.

Interesting stats

Crosses WSW 157:BR 200 (mostly O'Shea)

Shots WSW 106:BR 106 (acc 43%:40%)

If the team can make o'shea irrelevant, the Pussycats main creative force is removed.

My Selection for the team tonight

              Duke    Adam  Yeboah(maybe Meir)

                          Muller

                   Sullivan Ziegler 

Georgeski  Jurman McGowan  Russell (Maybe either Elrich or Kamau  

                         Lopar 

Trouble with this is that whilst most teams focus on crossing, I suspect most goals don't come through crosses from out wide.  Cut backs from the byline in the penalty box or through the middle seem to be the main successful routes to goal.  In our ACL (which incidentally made #2 on Simon Hill's 10 moments of the decade - behind Asian Cup win), we were able to shut out crosses from wide and even preferred teams to play wide and cross.  I think I am happy with Roar crossing from out wide and us defending strongly with Lopar controlling the show - keep them wide.

Early crosses that cut across the area and make life difficult for defenders perhaps but most teams run deep and try to cut across or cut it back a bit.  The defense outnumbers attackers and is set to defend.  SFC's stuff comes a lot from in close and running through the centre or close cut backs within the area.  That is something of the difference between the better attacking teams and the rest.

My Selection for the team tonight

       Duke    Adam Yeboah (or Meir)

                        Muller

                 Sullivan Ziegler 

    Georgeski  Jurman McGowan  Russell (or Elrich or Kamau)

                     Lopar

No Schwegler or Baccus....interesting to see how we line up.......

Duke Adam Muller

Georgeivski Sullivan Kamau

Jurman Zeigler McGowan Elrich

Lopar

On 31/12/2019 at 9:49 AM, scarcev said:

Loving all the negativity here, for those who want to roast Babbell for his lack of tactical knowledge fair enough but at the same time give him credit for making the changes that won the game for us last week. Bringing on Elrich was risky with their pace but he killed it, effectively won the game for us, Sullivan same, same as those that say well lucky we have Lopar, well who the **** do you think brought him down here??  but anyway to things at hand, Brisbane are woeful, they will hold posession for the majority of the game but create nothing and we will win 2-0.

Yeah FINALLY  got it right, He's been here since May 2018 - maybe just a slow learner ?

Or coincides with his new reported hands on approach to running the team training instead of leaving it to JP.

Will Jordan O'Doherty get on the pitch today? If he does off the bench.

Why isn't Monge in the Squad?

Anything opened in Parra today for a pre game bite to eat?

I'm in Canberra for work this week.

Is there a WSW Canberra supporter group that meet somewhere to watch the games?

Paul01 

I don't think Jordan O'Doherty trained  yesterday not sure why , I hope he is ok, we need him on the park

Monge Obviously didn't fit Babbel's plans 

Tardotz 

I think there will be choices for food in Church Street tonight

Pup55

Geez having a drink with a bunch of  public servants debating soccer and politics , my suggestion is drink alone  

On 31/12/2019 at 12:04 PM, Paul01 said:

Arnold has f***** us as usual

Ins: 8.Jordan O'DOHERTY (returns from injury), 11.Bruce KAMAU (returns from injury), 31.Noah PAGDEN (promoted), 59.Dean PELEKANOS (promoted).
Outs: 13.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS (national team), 17.Keanu BACCUS (national team), 19.Pirmin SCHWEGLER (suspension), 38.Presley ORTIZ (omitted)
Unavailable: 10.Radoslaw MAJEWSKI (knee), 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC (shoulder), 29.Daniel WILMERING (knee).

How is Arnie ******* us over? Keanu has literally been selected to represent his country in a very important tournament. He'll be an important piece for the Olyroos as well

18 minutes ago, DCWSW said:

How is Arnie ******* us over? Keanu has literally been selected to represent his country in a very important tournament. He'll be an important piece for the Olyroos as well

He could have let him go to the game late.

52 minutes ago, DCWSW said:

How is Arnie ******* us over? Keanu has literally been selected to represent his country in a very important tournament. He'll be an important piece for the Olyroos as well

I thought early on it was said if the young players were main stays in their respective teams he wouldn't take them.

Is an important few games coming up for the young guys though so that may take precedence. 

J Jnr n me played this last night on FIFA20

we win 7-0 n O’Donovan gets sent off in the 90th

Need someone to keep good descriptive updates as flying blind tonight...no tv coverage where i am.