A-League 20/21 The Other Matches Thread

Andrew Durante 400th national league game.
Most:
games for - Wellington - 273
games against - Perth - 44
venues played - Wellington Stadium - 114
refs - Peter Green 34
teammate appearances - Manny Muscat - 179
opponent appearances - Broxham, Topor-Stanley - 37
#WUNvMVC #Dura400

— andrew howe (@AndyHowe_statto) January 30, 2021

0-0 at HT

Getting quite testee out there.

That's 5 yellows to United and 1 to Victory??

I reckon Perez was onside by 1 foot. The yellow boot belonged to the victory player.

Ends 0-0. Western had 2 goals disallowed, the second of which, I've seen given, I think we was fractionally onside. The Victory got back into it. a firery encounter, lots of cards.

Ends 0-0, Diamanti hit the post a couple times

Straight red for Milligan for a DOGSO

Kostas shot saved into Wood's path and the young kid taps in for his first goal, 0-1

Ninkovic and Wood again make it 0-3

Roar win 3-1, Delianov with a howler for the Roar's 3rd

I watched the first half and it looked a decent enough game but I went to bed, it was way after 12am. Lightening delaying the second half of the Mac V Syd game by an hour almost.

f- off Slater. Damn I hope we pinch this.

Oops. Though I absolutely stand by the comment.

Big deflection and the Glory take a lead against the run of play,  0-1

Two players I enjoy watching - Castro & Diamanti. Tonight Castro, despite his age, still looks a class act.

J-Mac levels things up, 1-1

DIngham puts the Glory back in front,  1-2

Daggers makes it 1-3

CCM vs City tonight should be interesting.

No Bouzanic for CCM. That will make a big difference I reckon. 2-0 City.

CCM dominating and then concede a really soft goal. 0-1

Stensness gives the ball away and City make it 0-2

CCM pull one back before half time, 1-2

Penalty!!! Simon converts for 2-2

Second yellow for Stokes and City is down to 10

DDS!!! 3-2

Salty Dogs do it again

Die hard nix fan, but god it's been fun to see the mariners getting results again. Those fans have endured the grimmest five years, can't help feeling stoked for them. That Kalezic season was probably our bleakest season - they've had at least three comparable seasons in the last five years. Even if they do have Matt Simon, still sort of rooting for them this season

It sure is great to see any team other than a Melbourne/Sydney based team leading the pack. CCM fans have endured years of being the team the propped up the league, so it's about time they got some wins under the belt.

Really entertaining season so far. Really not much between the teams. Looks like any team can beat any other team on there day. 

Great night for Mad Matt. Have to admit I couldn't entirely suppress some pleasure at him doing so well in his 200th Mariners game, especially seeing how much it meant to his wife, daughter and extended clan, not to mention all those long suffering fans.

It's good to see them finally have some squad depth. They won the game without two of their best performing players. The new imports looked promising and the young guys continue to step up. De Silva has got talent to burn and finally made a match winning difference last night after so often proving a disappointment.

Yes, I too am quietly a CCM fan when they are not playing the Nix. Best of both worlds. We beat them and they are beating everyone else. Always entertaining to watch Matty Simon play, it'll be a shame when he finally stops.

Being a reasonably new a-league fan, I actually think Simon is great. He's the pantomime villain that everyone loves to hate, but really would love to have on their team.  He wears his heart on his sleeve and I admire that, don't see it very often.  Happy for CCM to win most games apart from when they play us.  That seems like a reasonable deal.

Mauk puts Adelaide ahead early, 1-0

I like him too,  do think he is a player you love on your team but all other teams hate him kind of player tho

Halloran blows a chance to make it two just before the break

Either Bruno or an oggie but it's 1-1