Match 21 vs Adelaide United | Fri 7th May | 9:35pm | SS7

11 vs 10. We have to throw caution to the wind now. We need 3 points 

Are we less likely to score against 10 sitting in than 11 pushing for a goal?

All Adelaide have to do now is park the bus like the snakes did

Here we go let’s make use of them being down 10 men this time please

Let's see what we learnt from that WU match...  If Adelaide sit back now it might not even help with our chance to win even if it's less likely we lose now...

Lachyloolaa

All Adelaide have to do now is park the bus like the snakes did

They've got some fire power up front though. They'll look to catch us out I reckon. But we don't have a choice, we've got to press for the win.

Adelaide won't sit as negative as Western did.

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Lachyloolaa

All Adelaide have to do now is park the bus like the snakes did

They've got some fire power up front though. They'll look to catch us out I reckon. But we don't have a choice, we've got to press for the win.

 Yep, your right, still pushing forward at this stage.  Good on them.

Come on Loki!

C'mon Charles. Time to prove you're not as average as we all think! 

Oh God, I agree with Speedy.

Only 3 minutes??? 

3 minutes! You're fudgeing dreaming!!!

3 minutes...

Lol at the 3 minutes of extra time. Should be about 10.

The time put on for injury time is consistently an absolute joke.

Can we ban Lewis from shooting.

To be honest I feel we could play another 90 and we still wouldn't win this. Just not our night 

To be fair, if I was reffing this game I don't think I would want it to drag on much more either

FFS get it in the effing box!!

Another 0-0 when we desperately need a win. Shark. We've only scored one goal from open play in our last three as well. Would take a miracle to make the 6 now, but I think our season died when we drew against Brisbane in that rice field last week.

Fair result. We're footing it with pretty much every other side, but dropped too many points earlier in the season. 
Both teams struggling to produce up front. 

siac

Can we ban Lewis from shooting.

He's had a good season, but his shots on target verus shots, must be less than 10%.

Sorry to break to everyone, we are not a top 6 team this season. As much as I would want them to make it, it seems impossible with toothless performances against 10 men teams. Good luck Nix.

I don't think it was that bad a performance. Adelaide are a good team, they defended well and nullified our attack. As for not being a top 6 side we are just paying the price for dominating games earlier in the season against the likes of MV and MacArthur and then finding a way to lose them.

Actually on current form I'd say we are as good as or better than at least four of the teams above us. But current form doesn't count, points do.

We finally get Piscopo back. Then we lose Davilla.
Ahhhh.

another tough 0-0 result, clean sheet which is great, 6 games unbeaten, also good. But we really needed 3 points to push on to finals qual. 5 games to go, 2 at home. We sit 9th on 21 points. 4 wins out of the 5, hoping for a draw against Melb City we could come away with another 13 points, giving us a total of 34. Not sure if thats going to be enough to get to the 6.
If those above us drop games, and I think we play a couple of them, then maybe we can make it??

theprof

another tough 0-0 result, clean sheet which is great, 6 games unbeaten, also good. But we really needed 3 points to push on to finals qual. 5 games to go, 2 at home. We sit 9th on 21 points. 4 wins out of the 5, hoping for a draw against Melb City we could come away with another 13 points, giving us a total of 34. Not sure if thats going to be enough to get to the 6.
If those above us drop games, and I think we play a couple of them, then maybe we can make it??

We currently have 27 points. So your calculations would total 40 points with 4 wind and a draw.
So mathematically still possible to make the 6, but looking unlikely.

That was a better display from Rufer. Not perfect, but much improved.

For another must win game the team does not look hungry, they may had 10-15 spell with Piscopo coming on, but Adelaide had far the better chances and in the end we are lucky for another useless draw. It's hard to get excited with that kind of football.

Would have been handy to have Yengi come off the Nix bench rather than Ngoy, for those last 15 minutes.

Ngoy frustratingly seems to have some of the attributes, but needed a spell in the ressies with coaching. Makes people appreciate Sotirio who does well within his limitations.

Not looking good to make the top 4 now unfortunately, and will need a lot least a few wins to make the 6. Hopefully the home matches assist with that.

On form there's only really one or two teams I'd really say are better than us currently, there's a heap of teams that are hard to separate, unfortunately our poor start to the season is costing us. Crazy tight table this season.

I think we played relatively well against a good team that sits well above us in the table. Certainly frustrating not have sneaked in a goal, but the same could have happened at the other end  - either side could have easily lost this game by a single goal.  We never got close enough to looking like scoring - the Reds defended well in the box.  

Okay confession- crashed asleep on Friday and missed the game. Watching it back now and got through the first half. We’re easily as good a team as Adelaide. 

A couple of good chances either way, a lot of good football and good reffing. Payne is noticeably slower than Louis, but can cross an aerial ball better. 

Also Ollie Sail is our best passer of the ball imo, Marinovic in goal and Sail in for Rufer. 

And Hemed gives us about the same as Juric, which is a good A league striker- but I think we expect more from him given he’s played at a better level than Juric.

Piscopo isn’t as good as Davila. If Fenton gets a card for diving what about Yengi? And time added on- time wasting, that chat to the ref and then the head clash- 5 of the last ten minutes! That decided by the ref or the 4th official? Anyway- no matter. 
Don’t think we were bad, just in no way better than them. 
Still enjoy this ref in that he doesn’t reward weak play and flopping to get fouls, he clamps down on dissent absolutely and cards malicious or dangerous play with fairly good consistency. 
Maybe we’re good enough to be top 6 now, but we’ve lost several close ones or failed to convert wins. 
Still be keen for to do it, but we’d need a great run in and some luck. Be great if we were still alive when we get to NZ!

Having just watched the game I thought Sutton was poor defensively, McGarry definitely played the better of the two.

UFUK why do you start Sotirio?  It should have been Wayne up front from the k/o. He would have cashed in on a few of the chances Josh had.  Josh is best comming on with 15 to go running at dead legs as Jengie (not sure of spelling) did for them.

0-0 was a fair result, both teams very equal although we had more chances.

Also why is Davila the only Nix player to play decent ground through balls? Everyone else plays square or back in the 18 yard box.