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  • Golec Guns Down Guangzhou

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    By mack

    The Western Sydney Wanderers will take a 1-0 aggregate lead into the second leg of their Asian Champions League quarter final after a remarkable match against ACL Champions Guangzhou Evergrande were beaten by a goal to Antony Golec, followed by finishing the match with just 9 men on the park.

     

    Golec claimed the winner on the hour mark, cutting inside from the left flank before delivering a low cross that beat everyone including the Chinese goalkeeper, who was frozen by the run of Tomi Juric, before nestling into the bottom right hand corner.

    Evergrande saw two red cards and their World Cup winning manager Marcello Lippi may face further sanctions as chaos reigned following the dismissals of Zeng Linpeng in the 88th minute and Gao Lin in the 90th.

     

    Shannon Cole has the best chance of the first half, after Haliti stormed down the wing he put a wonderful cross that beat the leaping Evergrande defence, only to see Cole glance the header wide when he should have put his side in front. Liao Lisheng smacked a ball moments before the break that Covic turned away.

     

    The second half was all Wanderers from the opening stages, Tomi Juric menacing the diminutive Chinese defenders and being the cause of the goal from Golec despite not getting a touch. Vitor Saba made his Parramatta Stadium debut and made an immediate impact, gliding around his opponents and drawing numerous fouls, while also showing an appetite for the hard defensive that he will require playing in the A-League for Western Sydney.

     

    Chaos reigned in the last moments of the game, as Linpeng smashed La Rocca with an elbow and was shown a straight red, followed minutes later by compatriot Lin who kicked Vitor Saba in the face and quickly joined Linpeng for an early shower. At that point Lippi stormed onto the pitch and confronted the referee, who eventually regained control, denied Juric a penalty in the final seconds then ended the match.

     

    The result means any draw or win for the Wanderers will see them through to the Semi-Final, while even a 2-1 loss would be enough to progress on away goals.

     

    The Wanderers next match is Leg 2 of the Asian Champions League quarter finals against Guangzhou Evergrande, in China, played on Wednesday the 27th of August.

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    WhoDoWeSingFor

    Still getting used to the fact that I can travel 10 mins to Parramatta to watch my local team play some football and people on the subway in Hong Kong are reading about it in the paper.

     

    Yep its brilliant isn't it.

     

    I spent a few minutes kicking a ball around at half time with a little kid who had come from China.

    His dad was wrapped.

     

    Fraternising with the enemy maybe but blows my mind some family in China has probably talked about it over the dinner table tonight.

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    Taurus
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    Posted by Taurus 18 August 2014 - 03:22 PM

     

    "IMO Mullen or even Alessi will start at RB & Hamill who has impressed at training, could play CB alongside NTS. 

     

    I agree with Erebus that La Rock should be playing in our midfield. Hopefully Popa agrees.

     

    I'm hoping Saba is unleashed on Wednesday night as the Chinese would not have been able to scout him much since he arrived.

     

    The other player we have that excels in wet conditions is Haliti. I wouldn't be surprised to see him get some game time in this match. 

     

    Cole has recovered fully from his ankle injury, leaving Santa & to a lesser extent Golec as our only injury issues as of last Friday."

     

    I went looking for this post just to prove that Popa does actually read what we post on this forum :ninja::good:

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    theguest7

    ^ Considering our demographic, the Wanderers are slightly better known worldwide than what we think. Last month I was in Europe in a small town with a total population that wouldn't even fill ANZ and I still saw WSW jerseys. We've got people from all over the world that are spreading the word as they go, it's in out nature :)

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    mack

    I like google translate's version of our squad:

    Western Sydney Rangers Lineup: 1- Yanukovich; 4 - Stanley, 35- Gelai Qi, 17 Hamilton Seoul, 33- Mullen (28 minutes, and the 32 Alessi); 2 - Cole (71 minutes, 10 Saba), 7 Hali Di (80 minutes, 14 Abia), 8 Polly Senanayake, 18 LaRocca; 9- Ulrich, 19 Brigitte

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    blurbel

     

    Chinese Language version of the Saba incident.

    Passionate commentary!

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwZsbnd7LE

     

    Can anyone translate this for us?

     

     

    I didn't watch it til the end but basically commentary went something like this:

     

    - "Another red card? thats the 2nd red?"

    - "Lippi has rushed onto the field, I've never seen him react like that in all this while"

    - Commentators used "hei mu", a term Im not familiar with but I've seen it written so often in social media in the aftermath of Wed's game, which I take to indicate as "the ref is taking bribes"

    - he didn't even touch him! (after they showed the replay of Saba's boot in the face from Gao Lin)

     

    cbf finishing the rest while im at work

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    zola

    Aussies don't dive like little pansies. Leave that sissy stuff for the Europeans and Latinos.

     

    #unaustralian

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    tonyrata

    All I have to say is bozza and his comments are ridiculous!!

    That guys a total knob with his "un australian" way, what is the australian way of playing football bozza?

    Don't make contact with my face, how bout that and there would be no send off!!!

    Your **** comments need to stay home, next time go snort a line before making comments aye.

     

    This was a massive achievement for not just Australian football but sport in general! and it seems the australian way is to piss on the achievements of teams by making big deals of nothingness instead of focussing on the fact that we just beat the biggest team in asia in a QF!!!

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    1988banana

    All I have to say is bozza and his comments are ridiculous!!

    That guys a total knob with his "un australian" way, what is the australian way of playing football bozza?

    Don't make contact with my face, how bout that and there would be no send off!!!

    Your **** comments need to stay home, next time go snort a line before making comments aye.

     

    This was a massive achievement for not just Australian football but sport in general! and it seems the australian way is to piss on the achievements of teams by making big deals of nothingness instead of focussing on the fact that we just beat the biggest team in asia in a QF!!!

     

    bozza was talking about kick it long n run lol hes been watching northern tigers play too much

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    NickNova

     

    All I have to say is bozza and his comments are ridiculous!!

    That guys a total knob with his "un australian" way, what is the australian way of playing football bozza?

    Don't make contact with my face, how bout that and there would be no send off!!!

    Your **** comments need to stay home, next time go snort a line before making comments aye.

     

    This was a massive achievement for not just Australian football but sport in general! and it seems the australian way is to piss on the achievements of teams by making big deals of nothingness instead of focussing on the fact that we just beat the biggest team in asia in a QF!!!

     

    bozza was talking about kick it long n run lol hes been watching northern tigers play too much

     

    Boz was having a sook at Saba for 'play acting' and I tweeted him saying have you forgotten about Berisha in the AL and he said no. I replied with he is the biggest play actor we have and drives a lot. Nothing back since.

    #OnYouBikeBoz

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