A-League 20/21 The Other Matches Thread

You would have to be one of the worst teams in the history of football to not get a result from here...

Would like to see a 100m sprint between that WU guy (didn't catch his name) and Sotirio.

Jeepers, thought that was gonna be oggie through keepers legs!

Diamante is having a great match, please finish something off!!!

Western tried, I'll give them that. 

Guy they brought on for debut was useless, hope he is their big hope for next season.

CCM win tonight would be good so Sydney haven't already clinched 2nd place when they play Brisbane.

WSW are the longest of long shots, to make the playoffs. But if Perth do win in Brisbane Wednesday night, Wanderers will technically still be a chance when they travel to Adelaide Thursday. 

Would need 3 other results (Nix, Roar & Glory all losing their last games) to go their way, plus a 7 goal swing in GD on Brisbane. Basically a major miracle for WSW to make it.

But lets hope for a Glory win verus the Roar, so WSW still have some motivation at least when they seek to beat Adelaide. Having a completely flat Wanderers turn up in Adelaide with their season already over, doesn't help the Nix.

Currently 
Brisbane 6th (37 pts & GD +9) - two games left
WSW (34 pts & GD +2) - one game left

Only 5 of the remaining 9 games are important for us to make the top 6.

BRI WSW WEL BRI NEW
BRI WSW WEL BRI Draw
BRI WSW WEL BRI PER
BRI WSW WEL Draw NEW
BRI WSW WEL Draw Draw
BRI WSW WEL Draw PER
BRI WSW WEL SYD NEW
BRI WSW WEL SYD Draw
BRI WSW WEL SYD PER
Draw ADL WEL SYD NEW
Draw ADL WEL SYD Draw
Draw ADL WEL SYD PER
Draw Draw WEL SYD NEW
Draw Draw WEL SYD Draw
Draw Draw WEL SYD PER
Draw WSW WEL BRI NEW
Draw WSW WEL BRI Draw
Draw WSW WEL BRI PER
Draw WSW WEL Draw NEW
Draw WSW WEL Draw Draw
Draw WSW WEL Draw PER
Draw WSW WEL SYD NEW
Draw WSW WEL SYD Draw
Draw WSW WEL SYD PER
PER ADL WEL Draw NEW
PER ADL WEL Draw Draw
PER ADL WEL SYD NEW
PER ADL WEL SYD Draw
PER Draw WEL Draw NEW
PER Draw WEL Draw Draw
PER Draw WEL SYD NEW
PER Draw WEL SYD Draw
PER WSW WEL BRI NEW
PER WSW WEL BRI Draw
PER WSW WEL Draw NEW
PER WSW WEL Draw Draw
PER WSW WEL Draw PER
PER WSW WEL SYD NEW
PER WSW WEL SYD Draw
PER WSW WEL SYD PER

Bolded combinations should get us 5th on GD (or on GF if GD ends tied)

Roar/WSW/Nix winning is the most realistic combo

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Newcastle leading CCM 2-0 and it is not even half time.

Does that help us?

nufc_nz

Does that help us?

This game isn't important for us. Hopefully the Jets play like this vs the Glory tho!

Colvinator

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Sydney are missing Redmayne, McGowan and Grant. So I dunno how they will look defensively. 

RR

nufc_nz

Does that help us?

This game isn't important for us. Hopefully the Jets play like this vs the Glory tho!

Gives the Jets something to play for against Glory now. If they win they probably avoid the spoon.

RR

Colvinator

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Sydney are missing Redmayne, McGowan and Grant. So I dunno how they will look defensively. 

CCM can’t catch SFC for 2nd now. Sydney have a number of AFC games post playoffs.

Expect Corica to send a bunch of kids to Brissy to play the Roar, which won’t help the Nix.

coochiee

RR

Colvinator

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Sydney are missing Redmayne, McGowan and Grant. So I dunno how they will look defensively. 

CCM can’t catch SFC for 2nd now. Sydney have a number of AFC games post playoffs.

Expect Corica to send a bunch of kids to Brissy to play the Roar, which won’t help the Nix.

They have 1 game to get the reworked back line working before the finals, so doubt they send the kids.

coochiee

RR

Colvinator

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Sydney are missing Redmayne, McGowan and Grant. So I dunno how they will look defensively. 

CCM can’t catch SFC for 2nd now. Sydney have a number of AFC games post playoffs.

Expect Corica to send a bunch of kids to Brissy to play the Roar, which won’t help the Nix.

Does feel like a sense of inevitability about it all as things don’t appear to be going our way. Here’s hoping though! 

You never know though. The kids will be excited and have it all to prove.

RR

coochiee

RR

Colvinator

Personally I'm thinking Brisbane vs Perth draw, followed by Sydney beating Brisbane best chance. But depends how likely you think WSW beating Adelaide is. Not impossible or crazy for WSW to win, but I would be more confident Sydney beating Brisbane than WSW beating Adelaide. 

Relying on Newcastle to get a point vs Perth sure would be grim.

Sydney are missing Redmayne, McGowan and Grant. So I dunno how they will look defensively. 

CCM can’t catch SFC for 2nd now. Sydney have a number of AFC games post playoffs.

Expect Corica to send a bunch of kids to Brissy to play the Roar, which won’t help the Nix.

They have 1 game to get the reworked back line working before the finals, so doubt they send the kids.

You are probably right.

Actually just realised that Corica won't get Redmayne, McGowan & Grant back this A League season. Even if Arnold released them early from the Socceroos this month, they would have to do 2 weeks MIQ back in Aussie. I imagine they will just head from the UAE to Ubekistan for that AFC Champions League group stage hub - that's scheduled to begin late June. Not sure how it will work with the Melb City guys. They are scheduled to play Cerezo Osaka in a AFC qualiying tie somewhere June 21st - seems likely to be delayed.

But what Nix really need tonight is for Glory to beat the Roar. Means that WSW's very slim playoff chances will still technically be alive as they head to Adelaide. So Robinson you think will be compelled to play a full strength Wanderers team in SA. Brisbane win or draw tonight, and WSW's playoffs hope finally end. Then Robinson may give some younger players a run around at Hindmarsh, which wouldn't help the Nix.

Would think after all the shark Robinson has been saying about his team, they would be motivated to come out and prove him wrong vs Adelaide.

Of the final round of games for this season, only Victory v City has no influence on who makes the top 6.

So we are going for a Perth win tonight??

NHpeter

So we are going for a Perth win tonight??

Draw or Glory keeps things interesting. Personally a draw would be best, it eliminates the Glory from the conversation 

NHpeter

So we are going for a Perth win tonight??

Draw please, that's one less team to worry about.

Draw is by far best for us, then
Perth winning, then
Brisbane winning is the worst.

Edit - One advantage of Perth winning, as someone else said above, is that it keeps WSW very narrowly alive which gives them more motivation against Adelaide tomorrow. So it might be nearly as good as a draw, although it does mean Perth would only have to beat Newcastle in the last match to finish above us even if we beat MAC.

0-0 at halftime.

NHpeter

0-0 at halftime.

So far so good. Perth looked more dangerous from the very small amount I managed to catch.

FFS. There goes our season.

Ugh, Roar hadn't looked like scoring until that oggie. 1-0

Perth's season is done if they don't win, so I don't expect them to go down without a fight here. Not looking good though!

Roar 2-0 Game over

Danzaki seals it, 2-0

Oh well. There's always next year

That's pretty much it.

Looks like the only Phoenix path left is WSW (who will have nothing to play for) to beat Adelaide away, then we beat MacArthur. Likely nothing to play for on Friday.

2-1 cmon Perth one more

Wilson!!! 2-1

Armiento has stuffed up two great attacks. 

Perth looked very tired in the 2nd half..... and no real decent players to come of the bench