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    mack

    By mack

    The Western Sydney Wanderers have thrown away a shot at the FFA Cup with a pathetic 2-1 loss at home in Sydney tonight. 

    Hayden Foxe rotated his starting lineup, introducing Jonathan Aspro, Jumpei Kusukami & Jacob Melling, and the newly introduced players looked well off the pace. It was Aspro at fault for the opening goal. After Baccus poked the ball away from Johan Absalonsen towards Aspro who made a complete mess of an attempted clearance, swinging at the air then knocking it into the path of the Danish attacker, who pounced on the loose defence to thread the ball around Vedran Janjetovic.

    The goal set the fuse on a powder keg, with Roly Bonevacia for the Wanderers & Isaias Sanchez for Adelaide both extremely lucky to have remained on the pitch, with Bonevacia hammering the back of an Adelaide player with his studs & Isias coming in with a harsh revenge tackle on Bonevacia. It was far from the only flashpoint in the match either, as Aspro found himself fortunate not to have been given 2 yellow cards in the space of a minute, and Jacob Melling escaping with the sanction of a foul for a horror two footed lunge as he raced Jordan Elsey to a loose ball.

    Oriol Riera should have continued his goalscoring streak 5 minutes after the break, as he finally recieved a decent cross from the wing. He leapt above the Adelaide defence and with a practically open goal to aim for he fired the bullet header wide.

    Daniel Adlung doubled the visitors advantage upon the hour mark, as the Wanderers defence backed off Adlung unleashed a rocket from 25 meters out that curved from outside the line of the goal, crashed into the far post and rippled the goal netting.

    70 minutes in and Wanderers substitute Brendon Santalab won a penalty after being taken down by Isaias. Santalab took the penalty he earned and gracefully tapped the ball home panenka style to make it 2-1.

    With Hayden Fox having taking off Riera who was the only real Wanderers aerial threat, they were reduced to the same glacial back & forth wasting of possession that marked their dismal performances of last season. Baccus, Herd, Bridge & co recycled possession side to side and back to the central defence, Cejudo was reduced to no look flicks & tricks that failed to penetrate the Adelaide 5 man backline and the home side made precious few chances. Late on the Wanderers won a corner that even Vedran Janjetovic went up for, but it was all for nothing. The Wanderers finished the game 60% possession but just two shots on target, one of which was the penalty.

    Adelaide United progress to the final of the FFA Cup for the second time in their history, and they will face last years beaten finalists Sydney FC. The game has for me, cemented the fact that the Wanderers will leave Foxe back in his previous coaching role when they do determine who they will sign full time, and that figuring out who should get the nod needs to happen by the end of the week.

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    GunnerWanderer
    10 hours ago, leslie said:

    not sure what was worse, the result or the eternity it took to get out of the car park. Just as well we only had 5,000 or id still be there.

    For anyone who travels to ctown again there is only one place to park across from the athletic track

    when your coming up Down rose patten drive ignore the signs directing you to the stadium parking 

    go straight and once you hit the running track on your right there is a whole bunch on vacant land on the left corner of the intersection - it's not illegal parking if there is a sign saying don't park there trust in gunner wanderer to kick it down for you! 

    I park there any ctown game - 3 mins walk in/out to the rbb side of stadium 

    then u just hand a right back onto the intersection and avoid all the **** traffic 

    if your hungry drive 5 mins up the road and hit minto for one any of the fast food

     

    and SBW no way u can defend melling it was vile the challenge!  

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    Harv
    4 hours ago, wanderersfanatic said:

    Yes he was.. But after watching the team right from season 1, I've never seen a majority of our players cooked with 20min to go. 

    It's been over 4 months since pre-season and there's no excuses. 

    I believe this to be a much fairer comment than your earlier one which seemed to lay the fault with Foxe.

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    mack
    3 hours ago, Prydzopolis said:

    - My only other point re fitness: players are not used to playing two games a week especially in Australia. It is a foreign concept to our players, something they really seem to struggle with and the performance last night was no exception.

    Adelaide managed it just fine.

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    Smoggy
    8 hours ago, mack said:

    Adelaide managed it just fine.

    And they have been on the road in the last 3 weeks or so, we haven't left NSW yet.

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    Erebus
    12 hours ago, mack said:

    Adelaide managed it just fine.

    A couple years ago I was playing every 4 days for an entire month for All Age Mens ffs.

    We had so many catchup games it was ridiculous. Had a midweek game and a weekend game for at least 4 weeks straight. We also work full time and don't have a massage artist to help us recover. So HAL pro players that can't do it is the biggest load of bs ever.

    Maybe they should stop doing only 1 training session a day and train like a proper professional footballer. Adelaide will finish the season strong because their coach is getting them up to training the Euro way.

    Still amazes me that HAL teams hardly train.

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    xxBrandonxx
    30 minutes ago, Erebus said:

    A couple years ago I was playing every 4 days for an entire month for All Age Mens ffs.

    We had so many catchup games it was ridiculous. Had a midweek game and a weekend game for at least 4 weeks straight. We also work full time and don't have a massage artist to help us recover. So HAL pro players that can't do it is the biggest load of bs ever.

    Maybe they should stop doing only 1 training session a day and train like a proper professional footballer. Adelaide will finish the season strong because their coach is getting them up to training the Euro way.

    Still amazes me that HAL teams hardly train.

    Yeah, what is it? Like 1-2 hour morning sessions like 4 days a week or something then heaps of time to do whatever they want. 

    It shits me when you see them out and about everyday at the beach or some fancy restaurant or whatever.

    They should be getting drilled most of the day 5 days a week. At least. And if they're not training physically they should be working on tactics and formations. There's heaps they could be doing. They already get the longest pre season in the world to **** around and do nothing. 

    Feels like players get paid to do absolutely **** all in the A-League. 

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    xxBrandonxx
    7 minutes ago, mack said:

    Many Euro sides do two training sessions 3 or 4 times a week, and in between they have physical training and theory/video sessions.

    Meanwhile in the A-League

    "oi bro, you wanna go Bondi today" 

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    wanderersfanatic
    17 minutes ago, mack said:

    Many Euro sides do two training sessions 3 or 4 times a week, and in between they have physical training and theory/video sessions.

    Any coach available that can do that? 

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    Erebus
    14 minutes ago, theguyyouwishyouwere said:

    most euro sides play in winter

    So what? We play in summer, so you should be training in summer. Nothing stopping them from training at 9am for a couple of hours and then again at 4pm, with tactical/video work in between.

    No wonder some foreigners come here and act like its a holiday. It freaking is.

    Its also probably a main reason why all these players try to go overseas and just can't hack it. Training itself will be a massive step up

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    Prydzopolis
    15 hours ago, mack said:

    Adelaide managed it just fine.

     

    6 hours ago, WSWBoro said:

    And they have been on the road in the last 3 weeks or so, we haven't left NSW yet.

     

    3 hours ago, FCB said:

    The Reds have a coach who worked in BL1 and BL2 for ten years. It shows.

    A couple of factors:

    - A extra days recovery

    - I don’t think they are going to see an accumulative affect of travel  within 3 weeks of the season with two away games.

    - See there shape? Compact both top to bottom plus width too, high line. When you combine that with the few counter attacks they had during the game, how slowly we moved the ball, how little penetration we had breaking up there shape, I think they expended  less energy than us. Did you see our players at full time?

    - FCB spot on. BL1/2 manager vs Hayden Foxe? Player management and fitness preparation leading into the season would be vastly different. Go check the article I posted in the Adelaide thread and the fitness guru nicknamed Raymond the egg with his response.

    FCB, one further point. I’d say we have moved on from old school German methods from the likes of Megath (not sure if this Adelaide bloke is similar). In this day and age, in the last five years sports science has come a long way.

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    Erebus

    Don't disagree at all. Adelaide came with a game plan and executed it.

    Foxe's gameplan is "put on our best players and run at 100 miles an hour"

     

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    Prydzopolis

    Re: Fitness & S+C

    - Please don’t compare Men’s AA to the professional game.

    - We are at the forefront of strength and conditioning in Australia. Don’t think that they haven’t got too professionals in who are dictating, loading, schedules etc

    - Training, you’ll find that is closer to 6 days a week. You’re talking about 3-4 full training sessions, not about recovery or pre-match sessions or days traveling.

    - Our biggest difference is our offseason, but you can’t blame the players for the leagues shortcomings. The foreigners love coming here for the weather & lifestyle but you’ll find that it is hard for them to adjust to Australian conditions.

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