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    mack

    By mack

    Del Piero scored after a penalty miss rebounded to his feet to give Sydney FC a 1-0 win in the first ever A-League Sydney Derby.

     

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    The Italian fell after Aaron Mooy left his leg trailing behind him while in the box. Strebre Delovski, in the biggest match since his long injury lay-off saw Del Piero trip and awarded penalty. Del Piero took the penalty but was ordered to re-take his successful first attempt. Covic once again proved the hero by saving the penalty but Sydney FC gained another huge stroke of luck with the rebound falling to the feet of the Italian striker. Del Piero managed to get the job done this time around and Sydney FC took the lead and held it for the remainder of the match.

     

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    In front of 19,126 passionate fans the Wanderers had 19 shots at goal in the match but only put 3 on target, a very worrying sign for manager Tony Popovic as the Wanderers head into a tough away clash in Brisbane next week. Sydney full back Fabio started off the match with repeated fouls but referee Strebre Delovski failed to issue a yellow card. The first shot of the match fell to ex-Newcastle Jet Ali Abbas but put it wide right. Seb Ryall and Brett Emerton continued the pattern of Sydney FC fouls and Delovski finally ran out of patience and handed the Sydney stand-in captain a yellow card for delaying a restart, to applause from the RBB.

     

    Del Piero skied the free kick from an Aaron Mooy foul on Kruno Lovrek, and followed that with a shot from outside the box that gave Covic his first real work to do in the match as he made a smart save down low. Minutes later Labinot Haliti took one of the first shots by the Wanderers but the effort was tame and well wide. Mitch Malia and Ali Abbas again wore the patience of the referee but he was lenient yet again and did not hand out any yellow cards. The failure of Devloski to punish the Sky Blues enabled them to press and tackle much harder than they otherwise might and I would hope that Popvoic is on the phone to the referees boss this week to ask why Strebre was so lenient to the away team.

     

    The 17th minute started a period of domination for the Wanderers with a D'Apuzzo shot which resulted in a corner taken by Shinji Ono. After the ball was cleared Polenz was fouled by Fabio, who again escaped sanction. Kresinger took a header chance but it was off target, then Ali Abbas fouled Aaron Mooy. Time and time again Sydney FC fouled to break up the Wanderers momentum and time and time again Delovski failed to give any yellow cards out. The game entered a battling phase once Kresinger was flagged offside. Fouls accumulated from both teams, and as usual the referee decided to keep the cards in his pocket for the persistent Sydney foulers. With 32 minutes played a well worked throw-in allowed Bridge time to shoot just outside the box, only for the shot to flash past the far post. After several fouls from Abbas and Del Piero the referee finally gave Abbas a yellow card shortly before half-time. The free-kicked awarded was taken by Aaron Mooy and his strong free kick stung the palms of Necevski in the Sydney FC goal. Mark Bridge was lurking for a follow up attempt with his head but the ball was deflected out for a corner which came to nothing to end the first half.

     

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    The first chance of the second half fell to Mark Bridge after a good run by Adam D'Apuzzo. The fullback cut inside and laid off a simple pass that Bridge ran on to and side footed towards goal. It was blocked by the Sydney FC defenders and went out for a throw-in. Poljak lofted a shot over the bar then came the crucial award of the penalty in the 55rd. Del PIero picked up the ball at the edge of the box after a 50/50 was lost by the Wanderers. Del Piero then dribbled into the area then cut the ball back. The Italian's legs tangled with Aaron Mooy's and Delovski award the penalty instantly. Del Piero slotted the first penalty in the right corner, but was ordered to retake it after his fellow players encroached. Covic heroically saved the second penalty but luck was with Sydney FC as the rebound fell straight to the feet of their marquee and he converted the simple 1 on 1 chance.

     

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    Aaron Mooy had several shots around the 60th minute but he put one wide and one was blocked. Sydney FC showed another disgraceful side of their play by beginning to time waste from the 60th minute. The first substitution of Lovrek by Antonis took an inordinate amount of time and Sydney FC did not stop their time-wasting for the rest of the match. Mark Bridge had another shot saved by Necevski then Poljak was given a well earned yellow card for a poor challenge from behind on Del Piero. Labinot Haliti was the first substitution of the match for the Wanderers with Hersi coming onto the wing. Nikolai Topor-Stanley missed the goal from a header. The oft-fouling Fabio was replaced by Petrovski, and on 75 minutes local hero Tarek Elrich came on to replace Poljak.

     

    Ivan Necevski finally earned a yellow card for blatant time wasting with 10 minutes to play, and in total their time-wasting lead to the decision to play six minutes of injury time. Mark Bridge had the last major chance for the Wanderers but his header yet again didn't trouble the keeper. The Wanderers were unable to mount any significant pressure during the injury time period and the game ended with a 1-0 loss to the Wanderers in the first ever A-League Sydney Derby.

     

    Tony Popovic will have to ring the changes, as the attack faltered yet again. The defence and midfield performed superbly but they are being let down by their point man. Dino Kresinger is consistently half a step behind where he needs to be and it is costing the Wanderers points. That match was there for the taking. No-one from Sydney FC except Del Piero showed much of a threat but Western Sydney were unable to capitalise. Kresinger will be a liability against the very fast paced Roar outfit that is up next. My choice if I was in Tony Popovic's position would be to drop Dino, and play with Kubi up front, Haliti and Tahj Minnecon on the wings. The team have played their hearts out but tactically the midfield is not linking up with the focus of the attack in a fashion that suits either group. By increasing the pace up front the midfield duo of Mooy and Ono can start to play defence splitting balls in behind the opposing defence and instead of having a lumbering target man they would have players with pace to burn running onto it.

     

    The Wanderers next match is against Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane on Saturday the 27th of October at 7:45 Eastern Daylight Savings Time.

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    Montalbano

    Montalbano

    Posted

    mate having come from supporting esfc, SFCU is a bullshit forum where the cove go and bag the crap out of each other.

     

    everyone in that bay hate each other or bitch n moan when someone doesn't "conform"

     

    boo hoo and piss off to your own forum if you want to be emotional.

     

    and as for all the homophobic chat, ESFC fans are big calling us homophobic when they hung JF out to dry with gay pics of one of their biggest and most influential supporters. Wanna call us homophobic and judge us? look in your own backyard you skirt

     

    Thanks for that info. They are the kind of people to me who will stoop to any low to elevate themselves, and lower others. You can just see it in their character.

     

    I still can't believe they actually won an award :rofl:

    Montalbano

    Montalbano

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

     

    Agree tha the "eff" of Sydney chant is probably a tad over the top.

    Davo

    Davo

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

     

    Agree tha the "eff" of Sydney chant is probably a tad over the top.

     

    Yeah we're part of Sydney too. Doesn't really work, especially when we knock them for saying they're for all of Sydney then bagging westies.

     

    I still can't believe they actually won an award :rofl:

     

    Well this is season 8. We're a new club so we can't have won it and Gold Coast's forum would have sucked because it'd be one guy talking to himself. I guess the Smurfs had to get a turn eventually...

    elpli9

    elpli9

    Posted

    My friends call Sydney FC - "FC" and western Sydney "West"

     

    And yeah throwing things was cheap, I looked over to the RBB and I kept seeing paper airplane and bottles flying around. Not a good look from where I was.

     

    But RBB was soooooooo awesome. Loved it.

    Redhead

    Redhead

    Posted

    If anyone here goes on the Cove forums you will see that they are actually applauding the RBB and the tifo. A question was asked about hearing it was club funded, no one came to a quick assumption that that was the case.

     

    Also still can't believe you guys going on about this so called dive. Seriously, only wsw fans and Italian haters and even Covic today are saying such **** where everyone else is laughing at Covic for his comments.

     

    The bias and false crap written here is unbelievable. You are quickly becoming the most hated fans in the league ahead of the tards. Grow up, take decisions on the chin and take the positives that the Cove has given the RBB instead of making up crap to make you look better, it just makes you look like a bunch of dicks when all the Cove has done is applauded the RBB

     

    We've got a long way to go before we take that title.

     

    Sydney FC thriving on being the A-League's most hated

     

     

    This article is quite amusing. Why would people be tipping the Wanderers, a new club with only 2 A-League games under their belt, to beat SFC??? The almost fear expressed by SFC is laughable. You'd think they were playing last year's winners, not the newbies.

    RBBKopite

    RBBKopite

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

    +1

    Despite all the good press we seem to be getting for it I think that apart from the card display (which was so awesome some smurfettes are trying to claim it was club funded - jelousy is such a compliment) the derby was our worst performance ever. Not sure if Benched, Charonis or Erebus could count the number of times I yelled at people to stop chanting ****, listen to the capos and sing or **** off.

     

    Anyway, it's done now and there's no need to dwell. What we need to do is learn how we can organise the randoms & bandwagoners better because I have a feeling a lot of them will be back for the Heart game. Sure we will get a drop off, but the kind of atmosphere the derby would've given the newbies is like a drug and it's highly addictive.

    Davo

    Davo

    Posted

    The thing is, if a random comes up with a killer chant or something that's really appropriate for the match it doesn't mean that it can't be done. It just means that rather than start it on your own, go suggest it to one of the capos. If they like it they'll start it up, if they think it's no good then better luck next time. That way everyone knows that all chants come from the capos and the capos can do a bit of quality control on new suggestions.

    RBBKopite

    RBBKopite

    Posted

    The thing is, if a random comes up with a killer chant or something that's really appropriate for the match it doesn't mean that it can't be done. It just means that rather than start it on your own, go suggest it to one of the capos. If they like it they'll start it up, if they think it's no good then better luck next time. That way everyone knows that all chants come from the capos and the capos can do a bit of quality control on new suggestions.

    Dude you need to look at the 7 million chant suggestion topics on here more.

    What some people think are killer chants could only be more gay if they stuck a rainbow coloured dildo up their arse and got Kylie Minogue to sing it.

    Davo

    Davo

    Posted (edited)

    The thing is, if a random comes up with a killer chant or something that's really appropriate for the match it doesn't mean that it can't be done. It just means that rather than start it on your own, go suggest it to one of the capos. If they like it they'll start it up, if they think it's no good then better luck next time. That way everyone knows that all chants come from the capos and the capos can do a bit of quality control on new suggestions.

    Edited by Davo
    Benched

    Benched

    Posted

    Ah Kopite, ever so eloquent.

    Erebus

    Erebus

    Posted

    Where did they buy said rainbow dildo? The Toolshed?

     

     

     

     

    and begin intense flame war in 3..2..1..

    Burztur

    Burztur

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

    +1

    Despite all the good press we seem to be getting for it I think that apart from the card display (which was so awesome some smurfettes are trying to claim it was club funded - jelousy is such a compliment) the derby was our worst performance ever. Not sure if Benched, Charonis or Erebus could count the number of times I yelled at people to stop chanting ****, listen to the capos and sing or **** off.

     

    Anyway, it's done now and there's no need to dwell. What we need to do is learn how we can organise the randoms & bandwagoners better because I have a feeling a lot of them will be back for the Heart game. Sure we will get a drop off, but the kind of atmosphere the derby would've given the newbies is like a drug and it's highly addictive.

     

    +1

    TWayServiceCrew

    TWayServiceCrew

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

    +1

    Despite all the good press we seem to be getting for it I think that apart from the card display (which was so awesome some smurfettes are trying to claim it was club funded - jelousy is such a compliment) the derby was our worst performance ever. Not sure if Benched, Charonis or Erebus could count the number of times I yelled at people to stop chanting ****, listen to the capos and sing or **** off.

     

    Anyway, it's done now and there's no need to dwell. What we need to do is learn how we can organise the randoms & bandwagoners better because I have a feeling a lot of them will be back for the Heart game. Sure we will get a drop off, but the kind of atmosphere the derby would've given the newbies is like a drug and it's highly addictive.

     

    If I remember right we were chanting sing or **** off in the Woolpack bar queue at one stage

    RBBKopite

    RBBKopite

    Posted

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

    +1

    Despite all the good press we seem to be getting for it I think that apart from the card display (which was so awesome some smurfettes are trying to claim it was club funded - jelousy is such a compliment) the derby was our worst performance ever. Not sure if Benched, Charonis or Erebus could count the number of times I yelled at people to stop chanting ****, listen to the capos and sing or **** off.

     

    Anyway, it's done now and there's no need to dwell. What we need to do is learn how we can organise the randoms & bandwagoners better because I have a feeling a lot of them will be back for the Heart game. Sure we will get a drop off, but the kind of atmosphere the derby would've given the newbies is like a drug and it's highly addictive.

     

    If I remember right we were chanting sing or **** off in the Woolpack bar queue at one stage

    I might or might not have been the person who started that...and the 'who are ya' chant in the face of the smurf fan in the bar queue at halftime. :ninja:

    Kraken

    Kraken

    Posted (edited)

    • The "**** off Sydney" [mostly] and "W*nker" chants lost lots of points with the rest of the mainstream supporters and came across as tasteless.
    • Chucking stuff onto the pitch looks bad.

    I think most on here will agree with you on those. I'm going to point the finger and say it was the bandwagoners responsible for these 2 points.

    It lowered the RBB to a useless reactive NRL/AFL type supporter base when our goal is to be the complete opposite.

    +1

    Despite all the good press we seem to be getting for it I think that apart from the card display (which was so awesome some smurfettes are trying to claim it was club funded - jelousy is such a compliment) the derby was our worst performance ever. Not sure if Benched, Charonis or Erebus could count the number of times I yelled at people to stop chanting ****, listen to the capos and sing or **** off.

     

    Anyway, it's done now and there's no need to dwell. What we need to do is learn how we can organise the randoms & bandwagoners better because I have a feeling a lot of them will be back for the Heart game. Sure we will get a drop off, but the kind of atmosphere the derby would've given the newbies is like a drug and it's highly addictive.

     

    If I remember right we were chanting sing or **** off in the Woolpack bar queue at one stage

    I might or might not have been the person who started that...and the 'who are ya' chant in the face of the smurf fan in the bar queue at halftime. :ninja:

     

     

    I was walking home from the Woolpack, Quite drunk, the secco didnt want to let me in, and I vaguely remember someone chanting "who are ya" at Altiyan Childs, I wished I had of filmed it.

     

    I laughed pretty hard, whoever did it is a legend

    Edited by Kraken


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