Frustrating game. I won't bother with my usual rant about how we have no width on attack...
Manny was generally really good but there was no need to lunge into the challenge that led to the penalty, that was just a completely unnecessary tackle. We're lucky Moss managed to save it - for me, Moss was the clear motm for us.
I actually also thought Sarpong looked likely to create something in that first half but after he got bundled over and no penalty was given he seemed to fade out of it. He's definitely not Burns mk 2, that's for sure. I'd still like to see him given the chance to play as a proper winger though.
Think Manny had to go in to block the shot? Tried to pull out well. The ball was gone and the contact was trailing foot, it seemed like Hoole was looking for it (something not ruled out by his flopping later in the game) and it was that doubtful that he would have got the ball.
Sarpong doesn't seem to fizz in the field. He had 5-6 really handy contributions early on, but faded out again. That said I think he is better from deeper and I wonder if he could sit in a false 9 where he could run from deep, and let McG go out wide. Has class and technique (his volley showed that), but has showed it in very limited amounts so far.
Sydney shut down our game for most of it. Marked Roly closely and the players around couldn't pick up the difference. We made more than enough chances to win the game, but didn't really get into our stride. I didn't think that Sydney were clearly better than us, but did have some periods of domination in the game, which they couldn't convert.