Western Sydney Wanderers vs Western United 8/05/2021 7:10PM

17 hours ago, Unlimited said:

In - will start the obligatory pre-match feed research process

have you tried Vasco's?

18 minutes ago, theguyyouwishyouwere said:

have you tried Vasco's?

They do good chicken burgers. The actual pieces of chicken I didn't like though. 

Zero new cases in Sydney, no lock down, no excuse to call game off / for WU not to travel.

Speaking of pre-game meals, anyone been to the Korean BBQ just north of Maccas? Any good?

No Ugarkovic

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/news/ins-outs-wanderers-v-western-united-0

See McGowan back in, is CR going to use same as last week or tinker?

1 hour ago, sonar said:

No Ugarkovic

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/news/ins-outs-wanderers-v-western-united-0

Will probably be a late addition tomorrow

1 hour ago, sonar said:

No Ugarkovic

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/news/ins-outs-wanderers-v-western-united-0

The weakest link is back:

Western Sydney Wanderers FC: 2.Ziggy GORDON, 4.Dylan McGOWAN, 6.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS, 7.Bruce KAMAU, 9.Bernie IBINI, 10.Simon COX, 11.Kwame YEBOAH, 12.Mitch DUKE, 13.Tate RUSSELL, 14.James TROISI, 17.Keanu BACCUS, 18.Graham DORRANS, 19.Jordon MUTCH, 27.Nicolai MULLER, 30.Daniel MARGUSH (GK), 33.Mark NATTA, 34.Patrick ZIEGLER, 39.Thomas AQUILINA, 40.Noah JAMES (GK), 77.Scott MCDONALD.

Ins: 4.Dylan McGOWAN (promoted), 27.Nicolai MULLER (promoted)

Western United squad

https://www.wufc.com.au/news/ins-and-outs-mw20-western-sydney-wanderers-vs-western-united

Western United has announced its squad ahead of tomorrow night's clash with Western Sydney Wanderers at Bankwest Stadium.

Western United FC squad: 1. Filip KURTO (GK), 2. Aaron CALVER, 3. Brendan HAMILL, 4. Andrew DURANTE, 5. Dylan PIERIAS, 6. Tomoki IMAI, 7. Besart BERISHA, 8. Lachlan WALES, 10. Steven LUSTICA, 11. Connor PAIN, 13. Ivan VUJICA, 17. Brad INMAN, 20. Víctor SÁNCHEZ, 21. Sebastian PASQUALI, 22. Tomislav USKOK, 23.Alessandro DIAMANTI (C), 25. Luke DUZEL, 26. Nicolas MILANOVIC, 30. Ryan SCOTT (GK), 34.Iker GUARROTXENA

**2-4 to be omitted**

Ins: 20. Víctor SÁNCHEZ (returns from suspension), 21. Sebastian PASQUALI (promoted)

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 19. Joshua RISDON, (foot), 12. Dalibor MARKOVIC (ankle)

5 hours ago, pseudonym said:

Yep, if WU have concerns they should be in discussion with the VIC government

If the government told WU "If you go to Sydney, you'll need to undergo hotel quarantine" - that would be a reasonable delay to the match

If WU just say "No, we don't feel like it" that should incur fines and a points deduction

in AFL, Essendon have to travel to Sydney to play GWS Giants

They talked to the AFL and asked for the game to be played later on Saturday so they could do a fly in fly out same day schedule

Given the games in hand they have left my guess is they'll be pretty keen to get this one over with.

There's only three and a half weeks left in the home and away season and they still have 6 games to play in that time. They won't be able to fit a rescheduled game in before their away trip to Perth on Wednesday so if they postpone our game they'll have 6 games in 20 days.

I don't think it'll matter anyway. Given no new cases today there would either need to be a bunch of people testing positive overnight or a massive knee jerk reaction from a Premier to stop the game.

3 hours ago, WSWJACK said:

See McGowan back in, is CR going to use same as last week or tinker?

Apart from injuries and suspensions...why would you change a winning team. 

2 hours ago, pseudonym said:

Western United squad

https://www.wufc.com.au/news/ins-and-outs-mw20-western-sydney-wanderers-vs-western-united

Western United has announced its squad ahead of tomorrow night's clash with Western Sydney Wanderers at Bankwest Stadium.

Western United FC squad: 1. Filip KURTO (GK), 2. Aaron CALVER, 3. Brendan HAMILL, 4. Andrew DURANTE, 5. Dylan PIERIAS, 6. Tomoki IMAI, 7. Besart BERISHA, 8. Lachlan WALES, 10. Steven LUSTICA, 11. Connor PAIN, 13. Ivan VUJICA, 17. Brad INMAN, 20. Víctor SÁNCHEZ, 21. Sebastian PASQUALI, 22. Tomislav USKOK, 23.Alessandro DIAMANTI (C), 25. Luke DUZEL, 26. Nicolas MILANOVIC, 30. Ryan SCOTT (GK), 34.Iker GUARROTXENA

**2-4 to be omitted**

Ins: 20. Víctor SÁNCHEZ (returns from suspension), 21. Sebastian PASQUALI (promoted)

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 19. Joshua RISDON, (foot), 12. Dalibor MARKOVIC (ankle)

Diamanti played the whole game in Redcliffe on a soggy pitch.

Hamill, Sanchez, Lustica all on a 1 game suspension with a single yellow card.

They're next game is scheduled against Perth away on Wednesday night.

Ugarkovic trained with the main squad and was part of the midfield training this morning , McGowan started with the main squad this morning but was sent over to the side to train with Cancar and Wilmering , would doubt he will be in the run on team all others looked fit,  Kamau may come on later this week. but trained with full squad.   

With Ugarkovic now, I'd like to see a midfield of 

DM Dorrans....... DM Ugarkovic

..............AM Baccus

Watching Baccus at times, I think he could do it, certainly looks like he wants to. 

30 minutes ago, matty said:

With Ugarkovic now, I'd like to see a midfield of 

DM Dorrans....... DM Ugarkovic

..............AM Baccus

Watching Baccus at times, I think he could do it, certainly looks like he wants to. 

Yep the Parklea Messi

Game at Bankwest went ahead last night with 25K in the stadium.

Our game will most likely go ahead if Covid numbers stay near 0 and not over 10. 

Do members get a free ticket for a mate or am I misunderstanding?

26 minutes ago, DinoPresinger said:

Do members get a free ticket for a mate or am I misunderstanding?

Yeah there was a members' email with a link to Ticketek

You add the promo code and you can redeem one free ticket in the same category as your membership

22 hours ago, DCWSW said:

Speaking of pre-game meals, anyone been to the Korean BBQ just north of Maccas? Any good?

I went there a few years ago. It was alright. Not as much variety as other Korean bbqs I've been to. It may have changed over the past few years though, so probably give it a go. 

0 new cases with 22,000 tests administered in the last 24 hours

From WSW Match Day Guide

"Face masks are strongly recommended for all patrons entering and moving around the Stadium"

13 hours ago, matty said:

With Ugarkovic now, I'd like to see a midfield of 

DM Dorrans....... DM Ugarkovic

..............AM Baccus

Watching Baccus at times, I think he could do it, certainly looks like he wants to. 

When we last played Brisbane at home we were chasing the game so Baccus was playing as more of an attacking midfielder. That was his best part of the game. Toward the end we took Dorrans off for Muller, pushing Baccus back and he had much less impact.

Ugarkovic is added to the squad, Yeboah is out. Ugarkovic will be wearing #8:

https://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/news/ugarkovic-added-extended-squad?fbclid=IwAR03T1b0HjIb8F103bqpyEO5bFY_jVftQmmgvqg8DbPlUbiRlGwjPVZhp0U
 

Western Sydney Wanderers v Western United
Saturday 8 May 2021, 7:00pm
Bankwest Stadium

Western Sydney Wanderers FC: 2.Ziggy GORDON, 4.Dylan McGOWAN, 6.Tass MOURDOUKOUTAS, 7.Bruce KAMAU, 8.Steven UGARKOVIC, 9.Bernie IBINI, 10.Simon COX, 12.Mitch DUKE, 13.Tate RUSSELL, 14.James TROISI, 17.Keanu BACCUS, 18.Graham DORRANS, 19.Jordon MUTCH, 27.Nicolai MULLER, 30.Daniel MARGUSH (GK), 33.Mark NATTA, 34.Patrick ZIEGLER, 39.Thomas AQUILINA, 40.Noah JAMES (GK), 77.Scott MCDONALD.

Ins: 4.Dylan McGOWAN (promoted), 27.Nicolai MULLER (promoted), 8.Steven UGARKOVIC (promoted)
Outs: 11.Kwame YEBOAH
Unavailable: 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC (long term injury)

I'd love to see the same starting line up as v SFC, except bring Ugarkovic in for Mutch. No that Mutch did anything wrong, Ugarkovic will do a better job at distributing the ball forward. He and Dorrans are the future, the future starts now.

Not very keen to see the formation we played for the last 20 minutes any time soon though. A defensive block of 8 with Baccus, Tass and Dorrans sitting right on top of our back 5. Absolutely no avenue for attack apart from our wing backs, basically just setting up camp in front of our goal and hoping for the best. I wondered whether this formation was pre-planned, or whether Tass was warmed up  to replace Natta when Kamau unexpectedly went down. In hindsight, Cox would have been a better like for like replacement for Kamau, and given us at least a little impetus to go forward. 

Does anyone think Ugarkovic may start? It's not as if he isn't match fit. He also knows CR's coaching structure/mentality from last season.

Throw him into the deep end I reckon.

Anyway, leaving soon for a feed at that Korean BBQ joint in north Parra. I'm rather excited about tonight's game. Only reason I say that is because I said it last week and we won.

Back to a back 3/5 again......why?

So CR stubborn bugger goes back to 5 at the back 

does he watch the same games we do? 

Looks like it's 5 at the back 

Hmm, considering WU have Berisha and Diamanti it doesn't seem like the best formation to use

So we are back to relying on 2 kids for width and playing without wingers again 

I can’t go tonight, I better it will be speed Harper and Slater on the tv