Wellington Phoenix vs Western Sydney Wanderers 21/02/2021 6:10PM

4 minutes ago, Wanderboy said:

Anyway, heading off in about half an hour. I'll give the bluebottles a miss thanks Smoggy.

Anyone know if we'll have drums there today?

Sea pools are  best today if looking for that kind of thing.

2 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

Sea pools are  best today if looking for that kind of thing.

 

True. That's why I love Bronte Beach.

Anyhow, for those driving, there appears to be plenty of free parking around the joint.

WIN Stadium parking - free or cheap lots, garages and street meter spots (parkopedia.com.au)

3 hours ago, Smoggy said:

Wanderers fans are arriving..good to see. Watch out for the blue bottles  in the water.

We are gonna win.

No bluebottles at Coledale Beach!  It’s beautiful!

(Apart from some washed up seaweed.)

Muller to start....Duke...Cox......Mutch on bench.....

No Ziegler, Cancar on the bench. Interesting. Who can play CB if one of the starting three comes off with an injury, I wonder?

3 minutes ago, FCB said:

No Ziegler, Cancar on the bench. Interesting. Who can play CB if one of the starting three comes off with an injury, I wonder?

Cancar

7 minutes ago, Paul01 said:

Cancar

Maybe I should have written "neither Ziegler nor Cancar on the bench".

9 minutes ago, Paul01 said:

Cancar

Well as FCB said, Cancar isn't on the bench, he got swapped for Duke in the matchday squad yesterday.

27 minutes ago, FCB said:

No Ziegler, Cancar on the bench. Interesting. Who can play CB if one of the starting three comes off with an injury, I wonder?

Georgievski probably moves into one of the wide CB positions.

6 minutes ago, mack said:

Georgievski probably moves into one of the wide CB positions.

Or he could go to a back four.

20 minutes ago, mack said:

Georgievski probably moves into one of the wide CB positions.

13 minutes ago, papersun said:

Or he could go to a back four.

That strikes me as very odd. Dylan Mc just returned from injury, there's no dedicated CB on the bench, DG hasn't played in a back three at all, and we haven't played a back four since CR arrived.

Fingers crossed that we don't have any issues during the game.

Everything in our favour today, but sometimes these are the most dangerous games.   Wellington haven't even filled their bench.

Devlin and Laws on the bench, wonder if they're 100%.

Marinovic benched.

Which Yeboah will we get? Goal scorer or keystone cops?

Wish we would wear the white away strip. Results have gone our way this weekend, really need to capitalise and win this one. The squad depth is best it has been. We will be in top 2 come semifinal time

They are pushing us really deep and we've turn over the ball a few times. We need to counteract that

We deserved that. Terrible

Peacock two minutes ago mentioned we haven’t conceded in open play

Nek minnit

We have five defenders and three midfielders and left a gigantic gaping hole in the defensive midfield position. How?

I sadly am not home yet so can't watch yet but oof, not a good start scoreline wise

Piscopo should’ve scored there 

We are unable to get past their defensive block of 10 players...

Nix are parking the bus with the entire team behind the ball and then breaking on a counter whenever possible. This could be a long death with our incompetent passing and mediocre defending.

8 minutes ago, mack said:

We have five defenders and three midfielders and left a gigantic gaping hole in the defensive midfield position. How?

The Baccus ODoherty middle two I’ve never liked. Too lightweight, can’t remember the last time we have bossed a game with these 2 side by side. Anyhow plenty of time to turn it around

Talay has learnt well from Arnold and Corica the art of whinging to the fourth official.

Just now, papersun said:

Talay has learnt well from Arnold and Corica the art of whinging to the fourth official.

And setting up a game to be as boring as possible.

Let's just face the facts that the Ibini/Yeboah combination up front offers nothing. 

Hmmmmm should have stayed on the beach eh..

How many corners have we had? A few decent crosses, but should have done more.

The experience of Troisi, Dorrans &Cox missing is palpable 

We are missing Dorrans at the back. The goal we conceded was p1ss weak, we made it way to easy for them. Bring on Mutch Cox and Duke.

29 minutes ago, mack said:

Nix are parking the bus with the entire team behind the ball and then breaking on a counter whenever possible. This could be a long death with our incompetent passing and mediocre defending.

Can any of the footballing brains here suggest how to combat this?