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  • Tiki Taka Gets Gombau Nada

    mack

    By mack

    Adelaide crashed out of the Premiership race after going down to 10 men and conceding twice to lose 2-1 to a Mark Bridge inspired Western Sydney Wanderers.

     

    Adelaide United opened the scoring a minute from half-time, neat interplay between Tarek Elrich & Cameron Watson produced a rolling ball across the top of the box that Sergio Cirio smashed a first time shot into the top right corner of Ante Covic's goal.

     

    The game changed on the hour mark as a result of a determined run by Mateo Poljak. The Wanderers defensive midfielder stormed past a trio of Adelaide midfielders, then sliced their last line of defence apart with a pinpoint through ball for Bridge. The all time highest goal-scorer for Western Sydney was playing in his 200th A-League match and his well timed run caught Nigel Boogard off guard, the central defender hacking down Bridge from behind for a clear penalty and after consultation with the linesman, a red card. Juric made no mistake with the spot kick to put the Wanderers level and with the man advantage.

     

    Bridge marked his milestone with the matchwinner in the 73rd minute. Juric won a free kick on the left wing, although his attempt at a power drive from a Takahagi lay-off hit an onrushing defender, the bounce favoured Takahagi, allowing him to lob it back into the mixer. Juric helped the ball on, over the Adelaide defence. Bridge reacted first, and after one bounce he smashed a volley into the bottom corner.

     

    All in all, Adelaide were punished for their reckless tackling, their entire outfield defensive unit accumulating a total of 5 yellow cards along with the red to Boogaard, their tiki-taka reduced to little more than passing between their defenders before humping long balls across to the other side of the field.

     

    With one round to play, the Wanderers will play disgraced cheaters Perth, hoping to match or better the result of fellow cellar dwellers Newcastle, who play away against Brisbane Roar.

     

    The Wanderers next match is against Kashima Antlers in the Asian Champions League, on Tuesday the 21st of April.

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    jockman

    We won !!! It didnt rain !!!.

    Felt like the first half was played in slow motion . Much better after half time. Looked like we wanted to win . Was looking for us to dominate after

    sending off , didnt happen some desperate defending required to hold

    onto lead . RBB usual good show despite smaller numbers . Guess nearly 10k for bottom team is ok . Interesting to see what crowd will be for last A league game against the chears from the West.

    Looking forward to Tuesday

    Cant wait until tuesday

    RBB looked very empty tonight. But as usual

    We won !!! It didnt rain !!!.

    Felt like the first half was played in slow motion . Much better after half time. Looked like we wanted to win . Was looking for us to dominate after

    sending off , didnt happen some desperate defending required to hold

    onto lead . RBB usual good show despite smaller numbers . Guess nearly 10k for bottom team is ok . Interesting to see what crowd will be for last A league game against the chears from the West.

    Looking forward to Tuesday

    Cant wait until tuesday

    RBB looked very empty tonight. But as usual

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    JackDoff

    We won!!!!! Yay!!!!!! :D First half was pretty ordinary , 2nd half we played some decent stuff n should've had one more goal. I think the wheels have fallen off the Barossalona wagon, they need Currusca badly. Met 2 more forumites , EmMac n Balkanite! :) nice to put faces to names! Proud of the boys ,COYW!!!!!!

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    DCWSW

    So raining on gameday seems to be the usual now,

     

    we just need it to rain after the game for us to win, what's the forecast for Tuesday??

    13 degrees at kick off

    6-20mm at 80%

    Winds 35-50km/h

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    Nnnnnathan12

     

    So raining on gameday seems to be the usual now,

     

    we just need it to rain after the game for us to win, what's the forecast for Tuesday??

    13 degrees at kick off

    6-20mm at 80%

    Winds 35-50km/h

     

    13 degrees and 35-50km/h winds???

     

    gonna be freaking freezing..

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    WhoDoWeSingFor

    Nice little win that, should give them some confidence for Tuesday.

     

    First half was quite tedious all round but then again coming last and keeping them to nil (almost) was nearly a small victory in itself.....nearly.

    I thought our defence stepped up tonight though, Spira and Aspro so calm and most importantly the team didn't fade away in the last 15 or so like many games this season.

     

    What a petulant bunch Adelaide are, the referee cracked it seemed and gave us a yellow just to shut them up.

     

    Red and Black Forever sounds great to me.

     

    ..... anyway, limping across the line, one to go then the off season.

     

    Unlike seasons past, I'm looking forward to it and sense I'm not alone.

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    Jukes01

    It was good to get a win but it was still pretty crap football from our team. I could have sworn we had 11 men vs 10 on the pitch but for long periods in the 2nd half it didnt appear so.

     

    The Bulut tifo was useless. Welcome to a salary cap league. This is the reality, the dollars that he deserves cant be met by the club even if they tried. Get rid of the cap and no problem.

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    Hughesy

    I had two poofters stand next to me in bay 57 tonight, contributing nothing, standing like statues spending the whole game drinking red wine. WTF. I was embarrassed. Go and support Sydney FC with that sort of carry on.

     

    Also, that crowd figure was complete bullshit. Where the **** are they pulling these numbers from? There was at least double figures there tonight.

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    Prydzopolis

    Members only crap needs to go..... Big difference when it's a ACL game

    Explain banana, are you referring to the members day or the RBB being members only?

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    WestSyd

    I always get frustrated at how we lose a lot of those 50/50 balls and give away cheap free kicks close to goal (even with 10 v 11). Some of the gifts given to Adelaide at the end by Tanaka and Trifiro was woeful. With the advantage we had they shouldn't have had so many chances to equalise.

     

    Also Bulut and Bridge appear to me to be the only players who really know how to score goals. I really don't have a lot of faith in the others.

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    tardotz

    Winners are grinners. First half was bad , second half better. Have to say that the big change in the 2nd half came from Matteo. He started chasing, it was also his run that got us the pen. He didn't leave anything in the tank and then limped off. Hopefully it was only a knock.

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    DinoPresinger

    Good win loved watching Adelaide implode. I don't think we can play juric and bulut together

    Punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :good:  :good:  :xnod:  :clapping:  :woah:  :woah::good:  :cheeky:  

    loved how our first goal was just us running straight through the middle. Great play by Mateo to make the goal and then a good run by Bridge. Sometimes we just need to do something different as Mateo did tonight.

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    BrightSpark

    I love Mateo Poljak.

    Yeah, he played at another level tonight. Even after he was injured, and couldn't come off thru lack of substitutes. What a Wanderer!!!

     

    And Popa was furious with the injury. I saw him throw the water when he realised that he has lost another man. Right before the ACL, dammit.

     

    But we WON!!!

    And how good does that feel. Even better feeling beating a team that acted like sookes.

    Abusing the ref for getting a Yellow when it should have been a Red. Lucky that they weren't down to 9 men. Dissent is still punishable by a yellow, isn't it?

     

    Our 1st half was a little slow, but how good was the RBB's opening dale? It went for 15 minutes, and was full of energy the whole time. Is that some sort of domestic daleing record?

     

    And as others have said, I loved the new Red and Black forever chant.

    "Red and Black forever trueeeeee"!!!!!

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    WestSyd

     

    Good win loved watching Adelaide implode. I don't think we can play juric and bulut together

     

    Punctuation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :good:  :good:  :xnod:  :clapping:  :woah:  :woah::good:  :cheeky:  

    loved how our first goal was just us running straight through the middle. Great play by Mateo to make the goal and then a good run by Bridge. Sometimes we just need to do something different as Mateo did tonight.

    I think we are a much more dangerous team when we play a more direct style. That first goal is an example. Straight through the middle and then a through ball to lead to the penalty. Second goal was also a though ball up the middle.

     

    Even in the past we have always played best when we have got it quickly to our frontman through the middle, and then have the winger and attacking mids coming in from behind to pick up any scraps. Crosses or slow build ups seem to be an absolute waste of time for us.

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    JayZko

    Another brilliant thing in the making tonight Smurfs can't become minor premiers therefore Won't be hosting a home grand final ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜

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    WestSyd

    Another brilliant thing in the making tonight Smurfs can't become minor premiers therefore Won't be hosting a home grand final

    Eh..you haven't really thought about this one, have you?

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    Nnnnnathan12

    Another brilliant thing in the making tonight Smurfs can't become minor premiers therefore Won't be hosting a home grand final

    Not if they make the final and play a team that finished lower than them..

     

    only team that can't host a final is the team that finished 6th

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    mack

    Another brilliant thing in the making tonight Smurfs can't become minor premiers therefore Won't be hosting a home grand final

    Technically incorrect (the best kind of incorrect).

     

    If Victory lost next week and Smurfs won, Smurfs could win the Premiership if they won by 7 goals (or less depending how much Victory lost by).

     

    They can also host a home Grand Final as long as Victory don't make it as well. Or the FFA take the match out of Melbourne like they threatened. 

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