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  • Wayward Krpic Kills Wanderers

    mack

    By mack

    Western United hosted the Western Sydney Wanderers in a match overshadowed by the Melbourne Victory fan invasion that took place the night before at the same ground in the Melbourne Derby, with Sulejman Krpic and poor defence to blame for the Wanderers succumbing to a 1-0 loss while playing the bottom feeding Western United into form.

    You'd be forgiven for failing to remember that the reigning A-League champions were the home side, what with their last placed current position having only won a solitary match out of their seven thus far, the Wanderers on the other hand massively impressive start to the season with 4 wins, 2 draws and their single loss putting them in outright second, and a chance, pending a potential forfeit win for Melbourne City.

    Wanderers marquee Milos Ninkovic missed the match through a hamstring injury, with Oliver Bozanic making his first start as a Wanderer & Ramy Najjarine dropping to the bench. Romain Amalfitano took over in the central attacking midfield role behind Bozanic & Calem Nieuwenhof.

    Western United took advantage of some poor defensive structure to open the lead inside 5 minutes. The left flank attack worked the ball to the byline for a run from former Wanderer James Troisi, and he fired across the 6 yard box, with no-one marking Aleksandar Prijovic at the far post he was able to chest the ball into an open net to make it 1-0.

    Sulejman Krpic should have equalised in the 25th minute. Tomislav Mrcela launched a long ball over the United defence, with Imai completely misplaying the bouncing ball, he allowed Krpic a free run on goal. With keeper Jamie Young well out of position, Krpic's legs stopped working until his uncoordinated shot went into the second tier of AAMI Park. Minutes later he had another brilliant chance, a free header from 7 yards that missed by a mile. Yeni Ngbakoto fired a shot straight at Young that had power but that lack of direction made it an easy grab. Mrcela picked up the first yellow card for a stupid challenge in the middle of the pitch against Troisi, it was late and hammered Troisi in the back for no reason.

    In the last minutes of the half Lawrence Thomas pulled out a great save after Nicolas Milanovic took advantage of lazy play in the defensive third, running in to steal the ball from what should have been a routine clearance before an ambitious first time effort from a long way out. Thomas was taken by surprised but dove to his right, turning it away for a corner. The first half ended with the Wanderers dominated, and lucky to only be one goal behind. They created almost nothing in attack and the one golden chance was spurned by Krpic. As a whole the team looked disinterested, slow and were out enthused by the team on the bottom of the table.

    Amalfitano had to come off at half-time after taking a dizzying knock to the head right before the break. He was replaced by Daniel Wilmering. Krpic wasted his second glorious chance of the game, getting past Imai and having the ball one on one with Young from 6 yards out that he couldn't get past the keeper. Shortly after the hour Aidan Simmons came on for his A-League debut in place of Bozanic, with Brandon Borrello making way for Alessandro Lopane. Western United responded with in the 75th minute with their experienced talisman Alessandro Diamanti and 20 year old Noah Botic.

    Nieuwenhof drew a wonderful save out of Young with a 20 yard left footed strike, the keeper jumping straight up to turn it away for a corner that the Wanderers did little with but managed to win another corner at the protest of the Western United players calling for a handball. Rudan threw on Ramy Najjarine, and in the 87th, Marcelo appeared to be injured as he left the field to be replaced by Ruon Tongyik. Gabriel Cleur compounded his poor game with a blatant yellow card as he dragged down Pain having fallen himself. Jacob Tratt could have sealed the match from a set piece, he was totally unmarked despite just the two attackers being outnumbered by 6 defenders, but his header sliced wide.

    WSW created absolutely nothing in the dying minutes, the game summed up when Mrcela managed to miscontrol the ball after it was slowly rolled to him by Thomas. Following their draw with 9th placed Wellington, adding a loss to last placed Western United bodes poorly heading into Christmas and the New Year period, but even with the poor performance overall it could have been rewarded with three points if Krpic had taken his chances like a high paid foreign striker should have.

    The Wanderers next match is against the Brisbane Roar on Friday the 23rd of December in Redcliffe Queensland with kick off at 7:45pm Sydney time.

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    Sithslayer1991

    Sithslayer1991

    Posted

    You know I think Rudan is just ultra defensive with tactics but any time his teams need to proactive his system just doesn't suit or allow for flare players to create more opportunities without changing the structure. WU getting the early goal killed us because they are similar happy to get 1-0 results.

    I think with Rudan's team its imperative to get the first goal and game manage the result. However going down early and we get a  very dour sort of effort because we need to make a play for the win. Not having Yengi or Ninkovic puts a lot of responsibilities on Borello or Yeni to creat something and can be easily close down. Krpic man the guy must be still on holidays or the rumours on the forum are true and he isn't settling in Sydney and wants to leave. Just lost that extra bit of energy or confidence prior to the break.

    The last 2 games have put clearly the limitations of Rudan's tactics and we come to Brisbane next week and it will be similar to the past 2 games where we need to be more proactive but the opposing side is terrible that we play down to their level. Stereotypical Wanderers game.

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    2 hours ago, SBW said:

    It was like Carl Robinson has come back to coach us again.

    Krpic, he does good things off the ball but he’s not A-League level striker, to me he’s more of an NPL1 standard striker where the tempo is a bit slower which suits Krpic.

    I don’t know what’s the story with Yengi but if he’s fit, he needs to start against the Roar on Friday night.

    Also, we looked very lethargic, the players looked completely gassed by halftime, watching RBTV last night, one of the boys mentioned that during the WC Break, the players had intense training and would explain why players are getting niggling injuries and are completely gassed.

    It looked like it was a 40 degree day, it was 20 though 

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

    You know I think Rudan is just ultra defensive with tactics but any time his teams need to proactive his system just doesn't suit or allow for flare players to create more opportunities without changing the structure. WU getting the early goal killed us because they are similar happy to get 1-0 results.

    I think with Rudan's team its imperative to get the first goal and game manage the result. However going down early and we get a  very dour sort of effort because we need to make a play for the win. Not having Yengi or Ninkovic puts a lot of responsibilities on Borello or Yeni to creat something and can be easily close down. Krpic man the guy must be still on holidays or the rumours on the forum are true and he isn't settling in Sydney and wants to leave. Just lost that extra bit of energy or confidence prior to the break.

    The last 2 games have put clearly the limitations of Rudan's tactics and we come to Brisbane next week and it will be similar to the past 2 games where we need to be more proactive but the opposing side is terrible that we play down to their level. Stereotypical Wanderers game.

    Flare players who are they then? Id we don't have ninkovic we don't have one 

    theguyyouwishyouwere

    theguyyouwishyouwere

    Posted

    20 hours ago, mack said:

    Romain Amalfitano took over in the central attacking midfield role behind Bozanic & Calem Nieuwenhof.

     

     

     

    I didn't watch the game but i reckon this is where we may have gone wrong.

     

     

     

     

    Aren't we glad mr lederer rushed into signing rudan so the bulls wouldn't get him.

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, theguyyouwishyouwere said:

     

    I didn't watch the game but i reckon this is where we may have gone wrong.

     

     

     

     

    Aren't we glad mr lederer rushed into signing rudan so the bulls wouldn't get him.

    The three midfielders all basically tried to play in the same space we had no width until willmering came on, but all he does is receive the ball in attacking half then pass it back 

    I swar Carlo scared him so much that he gets PTSD whenever he is in a attacking position 

    Sithslayer1991

    Sithslayer1991

    Posted

    1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

    Flare players who are they then? Id we don't have ninkovic we don't have one 

    Yeni has shown that he has trick up his sleeve if allowed to play. Of course Ninko. Remi when he wants can turn it on. Borrello get him in the right positions and can use his pace to get behind. And of course Yengi the number 9 who is playing on the wing. Like I feel the structure keeps us defensively sound but sacrifices allowing these guys to get behind the lines for the sake of the structure. We get to slow to get forward to busy building around the defense and midfield to maintain the structure and formation.

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

    Yeni has shown that he has trick up his sleeve if allowed to play. Of course Ninko. Remi when he wants can turn it on. Borrello get him in the right positions and can use his pace to get behind. And of course Yengi the number 9 who is playing on the wing. Like I feel the structure keeps us defensively sound but sacrifices allowing these guys to get behind the lines for the sake of the structure. We get to slow to get forward to busy building around the defense and midfield to maintain the structure and formation.

    We are so static, obviously it's not a very relevant game but you the contrast to how Everton kiddies  played against us was huge, we just dont move off the ba at all no runs nothing 

    Niksreed

    Niksreed

    Posted

    Re the Krpic problem. Can we see a soon to be fit Yengi going into number 9 (not sure if this solves anything) or a possible foreign signing in Jan? 

    Natethan

    Natethan

    Posted

    Yengi is a number 9. Needs to play there. I get krpic does heaps of pressing but if you are a striker your main job is to score goals. Put someone in there that can.

    LetsPele

    LetsPele

    Posted

    Thomas

    Cleur, Marcelo, Mrcela, Traore

    Nieuwenhof,

    Borello, Amalfitano, Ninkovic, N'bakato

    Yengi

    Would be my first team squad (if fit).

    4:5:1, with one of the following depending on the opposition and/or state of the game:

    Nieuwenhof DM, Amalfitano and Ninkovic CM, Borello and N'bakoto out wide.

    Nieuwenhof and Amalfitano CM, Ninkovic AM. Borello and N'Bakoto out wide.

    Nieuwenhof and Amalfitano DM, Ninkovic CM, Borello and N'bakato on the flanks, but narrow.

    Can we get injury replacements for Beadling, Russell, Williams? (Can't recall whether Williams retired or not). That might give us more bite from the bench.

    BoyFromTheWest

    BoyFromTheWest

    Posted

    Do we need injury replacements? Why not develop the kids who look pretty decent and give them a go. CCM depends on their kids and they're doing okay.

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    We wont score enough goals 

    18 hours ago, LetsPele said:

    Thomas

    Cleur, Marcelo, Mrcela, Traore

    Nieuwenhof,

    Borello, Amalfitano, Ninkovic, N'bakato

    Yengi

    Would be my first team squad (if fit).

    4:5:1, with one of the following depending on the opposition and/or state of the game:

    Nieuwenhof DM, Amalfitano and Ninkovic CM, Borello and N'bakoto out wide.

    Nieuwenhof and Amalfitano CM, Ninkovic AM. Borello and N'Bakoto out wide.

    Nieuwenhof and Amalfitano DM, Ninkovic CM, Borello and N'bakato on the flanks, but narrow.

    Can we get injury replacements for Beadling, Russell, Williams? (Can't recall whether Williams retired or not). That might give us more bite from the bench.

    Where are the goals going to come from on one in that team will get more than 6

    nmh94

    nmh94

    Posted

    Tomorrow has 0-0 written all over it. My fantasy side reflects this.

    Cue a 4-4 draw.

    LetsPele

    LetsPele

    Posted

    On 22/12/2022 at 7:05 PM, StringerBellend said:

    We wont score enough goals 

    Where are the goals going to come from on one in that team will get more than 6

    Probably. But what alternative first team line up is there, taking into account our current squad? 

    StringerBellend

    StringerBellend

    Posted

    7 hours ago, LetsPele said:

    Probably. But what alternative first team line up is there, taking into account our current squad? 

    There isn't

    And yesterday showed we are reliant on Ninko for creativity 



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