2015/16 Preseason - v Auckland City | 2pm Sat 26th September | Home & Garden Show @ Westpac Stadium

2 penalties? Both saved? Or same penalty?

WS Wanderers FC @wswanderersfc

SUBS | Off comes Piovaccari and Macdonald. On comes Santa and Romeo #WSW

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Sub for Nix with Doyle on for Sigmund 0-2 #wswvwel

Same penalty. Different people describing it.

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

More subs: 65' Ridenton for Fenton, Powell for Appiah

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Correction: Ridenton on for 2 goal Roly! #wswvwel

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

68' Rufer on for McGlinchey now. #wswvwel

Two different points of view here:

WS Wanderers FC @wswanderersfc

WHAT. A. GOAL. NICHOLS WITH AN INCREDIBLE FINISH! #WSW

and...

Caitlin Campbell @Ccambo7

Dumb. They scored.

John stuart @jtanbaby

Second half pretty dull.... Then WSW score to make it 2-1. Both teams making 5+ changes so game really slowing down

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

73' Stevens on for Krishna #wswvwel

This commentary is better than Dewhursts! Go Brandon!

Not a high bar to get over tbf.

WS Wanderers FC ‏@wswanderersfc 17s17 seconds agoSydney, New South Wales

Goal. Blake Powell scored after chasing up a #WSW error in possession. 3-1 now.

Caitlin Campbell @Ccambo7

Yay. We scored again! Blake Powell after a pretty poor WSW mistake!

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Goal! Goal. Powell, Stevens intercept fell to Powell in the box who converts to make it 1-3 on 85' #wswvwel

Sounds like they studied our defensive performance against City.

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Sub: Dimairo on for Riera 1-3 #wswvwel

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Sub: McGarry - fresh from winning promotion back to Central League for @WgtnUnited - is on for Muscat on 85' 1-3 #wswvwel

John stuart @jtanbaby

Mambo with another nice save to keep it 3-1 WSW starting to Gain some edge after all the changes

Sounds like Mambo is redeeming himself after the City effort. (which was one of the worst i've seen by a keeper live at any level; though obviously not helped by his defence)

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good to "see" a bunch of the young fellas getting some time

WS Wanderers FC @wswanderersfc

Some good signs and some things to improve on. Exactly what you want out of a pre-season hit-out #WSW

Wellington Phoenix @WgtnPhoenixFC

Full time Phoenix win 3-1 @PirtekStadium v @wswanderersfc in a solid preseason. 2 goals to @RolyBonevacia and one to Blake Powell! #wswvwel

Gotta say I am pretty happy (and relieved) by that performance. By all accounts (a) we played very well, and (b) clicked and (c) a LOT of the young squad members got good runs too. These appearances are adding up, and it's gotta start being normal for them soon (if not already). I am very encouraged.

Did we play three at the back?

According to the RBB our ball movement and one touch passing through the mid field was very impressive in the first half.

Yep.

That is what killed us towards the end of last season. We just forgot how to pass and teams capitalised on that. So this is good news, means Ernie has worked on this problem (I wont say fixed just yet).

Thank god Roly still hasn't realised he's too good for the A League!

There must be something I can get angsty about????

:)

“Vince Lia slotted in between the two centre backs when needed and they were rock solid the whole game."

Sounds like it could have been a back 4 but with Lia dropping back to make a back 3 if Fenton and Muscat pushed forward. Also good to see Michael Ridenton getting another run on the pitch

"There was another injury blow for the Phoenix when goalkeeper Glen Moss jarred his neck in the warm up but Italiano stepped in and performed well."

Read more at 

http://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/article/phoenix-t...

Wonder if he did it while he watched a Vinnie Lia shot sailing over the crossbar.... :-)

Anyone have any highlights? any of the goals or anything at all?

Also when do we play Sydney FC?

yay... looking forward to some dodgy camcorder replays!!!!!

 Game was played live on Periscope by WSW - don't have the app so can verify if we could get it.

The whole thing? I only saw little snippets.

3 goals and one touch passing in the midfield. Is this what we can expect for the season? No angst?