A-Leagues adventures in Asia (ACL & AFC Cup thread)

Two strikers? What is this madness from Arnie??!?!?!?!

Naumoff puts Sydney up 0-1!

Sydney hold on for the 0-1 win.

Sydney FC v Pohang Steelers tonight @ 10pm

Stunningly low turn out, nil all at oranges.

1-0 Sydney. Ninkovic

Unofficial croud: 5,642

Sydney take it 1-0, against a very under-strength Pohang side.

Sydney almost thru, in 1st place in their group with a 5 point lead over 3rd place with 2 games left.

Suwon v Melbourne Victory at 10:30pm tonight, streaming on TAB Watch & Bet

https://www.tab.co.nz/sport/video/#stream-1114847-1/suwon-v-melbourne-victory

Ended 1-1, with Kosta scoring the equaliser 

In other ACL games, AFC Referee of the year Ben Williams gave a penalty for this

Shanghai SIPG v Melb Victory at 11:30pm tonight

Victory losing 3-1 in the 84th minute

Ends 3-1. Suwon won their game, jumping ahead of Victory on GD with 1 game left to play.

Other results mean Sydney is thru to the next round even before they play Wednesday night at 10pm.

The standings are based on points, head-to-head, goal-difference and number of goals of the teams tied. So Victory are in 2nd.

Did berisha behave himself?

Yeah. Just have to match Suwon result in the last game.

Hope both teams get through.

0-0 tonight, played on a paddock at the SFS

Victory host Gamba at 10pm tonight, only need a draw to progress thru to the next round.

Sydney play in China at 10:30pm, they are aiming for the top spot in their group

Not even 20 minutes gone and MV look home and hosed. Beautiful ball from Kosta for an Archie tap in.

2-0

Victory won 2-1 & Sydney lost 1-0.

Good news for Victory, but what does it mean for Sydney? (I am not up with group standings, sorry)

Despite the loss, Sydney topped their group.

Kosta had a pretty magnificent game. Looking forward to seeing him in Nix colours again.

Victory losing both goal scorers in that game.

Victory vs Jeonbuk & Sydney vs Shandong Luneng in the Round of 16.

When are these R16 games on? Will be good to watch.

Victory play at 9:45pm tonight, TAB Watch & Bet has a stream available.

Well, that was emotional. 

Ended 1-1. Sydney play tonight at 11:30pm, again the TAB have a stream available.

Sydney 1-0 at the break

I wish the AFC would get rid of the rule forcing there to be a Western Asian zone and an Eastern Asian zone team in the finals. It makes the knockout stages kind of boring in my opinion, knowing that regardless of the quality in any given year in either of the zones it'll always be an Arab team vs an East Asian team. I'd love to watch an all-Japanese final, or an all-Australian final or two teams from rival nearby country; or even better, a derby in a final. This year it'll be Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid in the UEFA CL, awesome rivalry. Yet, hold up for the AFC final, a Qatari team vs a Japanese team... no thanks.

2nd leg for the Victory kicks off tonight at 10pm.