Mom v Heart

Mom v Heart

Hard to go past two goals on an injured knee. But Sigmund, Lia both impressive.

ifill was good.

Siggy did well

2 goals, a lot of great passes, and got Matt Thompson sent off. Should I say more?
Yes, I should.
Muscat comes in on number 2 as he OWNED Sibon.
Siggy at no.3.

Everybody stepped up.  Ifill got the jewels. No errors from North or Hearfield and North got forward a lot. North's best game for the Nix.  At one stage he'd played forward, layed off to Ifill who went wide and North made a run into the box to be the only Nix there.  mjp22010-11-24 21:58:01

Brown was MIA until that lovely touch to set up the goal.

Siggy for me, Showed some class tbh, great run leading to the 2nd goal.

best game from ifill for some time

Ifill.

muscat was good but a few lazy touches in possession spoiled his game for me...

And two VERY important and good saves from "double fister" Pasty.

North's best game for us easily. But he was still behind a few others in man of the match.

Bertos was good down the flanks again, hes one of the few players who backs himself to take on and beat players, instead of just sticking with the 'instinctive passing game' that most kiwis seem to play.

Dont think North was a bit average on defence for a Socceroo though? Players seem to go round him too easily for mine.

Did make a few good runs forward though.

Those 2 things combined justifies having him at RB with Siggy in the middle I think.

EDIT: Oh and Ifill for MoM. Siggy with an honourable mention.Tegal2010-11-24 22:08:24

Siggy has done really well past few games actually, happy with him, Iffils back to his own self, pity Greenie didn't really play. Leo was a bit off, but, hey, this is no time to be negative! No one did particulaly badly (apart from the ref, even though he isn't a player, but i needed to comment on his sh*ttyness.), and all is good. :)

This. He is so versatile and I really hope he is re-signed. He might not be first team in future but he is an excellent stop gap measure.

manny muscat.... changes things around completely

interesting to see what happens sat with no siggy...

Elliot back in and muscat back to right??????

Will go for Ifill. 2 goals that won the game, and looked a bit better tonight, despite his bad miss in the first half when he shot straight at the keeper.

I thought everyone was great apart from Lia. Everything Lia touched turned to sh!t...

Yeh, I know what you mean and I'm not going to argue.  But just a few thoughts.  North has cost us a couple of games with errors playing at RB, a position he's not used to.  Sure Ifill got a couple of goals, but he also lost the ball a fair bit.  Not criticising, but surely you expect strikers to take those sort of chances.  You expect defensive players to keep the opponents out.  They did that tonight and for mine, North made a big step up.  I don't believe anybody beat him.  MoM?  Strange thinking maybe, but he and Hearfield managed not to loose it for us tonight both playing out of position, and North managed a bit more than Hearfield.  Just a small Pat on the Back from me.

I'm pretty sure North has played at RB regularly. Happy to be proven wrong...But I'm quite sure.

Ifill, Siggy and Lia were standouts for me

Manny was very disappointing I thought - so too Timmy. Manny lost the ball countless times because of a bad touch. Thought that Lia was the one that carried the midfield 3 tonight which was quite surprising.

I voted for Siggy in the end- I think his run provided the impetus for that 1st goal. Will miss him immensely against Victory.valeo2010-11-24 22:27:09

Paston, we should have been down by 2 before our first goal, but for his saves.

But he didn't even catch them....

Paston....he kept us in the game

Looks like you're right, briefly(?) in Korea and previously four plus years ago mjp22010-11-24 23:19:11

he looked good at RB,eemed a lot more assured of what he was doing, hearfield played well at LB too, especially given he is an attacking midfielder by trade.

I hope not. Manny is better forward. Without him, we're not left with much on attack in the midfield

Ifill got my tick  2 goals no brainer really 

Did Marco even touch the ball in the 90 seconds he was on?? I'd like to see him given 10-20 minutes to let him develop. Most of the other teams seem to have young players.

Marco..... ROJAS!!!

Manny muscat was sublime, so much of what went well last night started from his defensive work in front of the back four and his distribution

Paston for refraining for punching

Clint Bolton.  He failed more times in one highlights clip than most people do in a season.  Credit to the man.  Simply woeful.

Manny absolutely bossed midfield - Manny back in the middle was key!