We lost last night due to School boy defending and shark goal keeping.
We lost badly because of our own errors. But overall, we lost because we were playing Sydney FC.
Watching our second half performance I was wondering if we would have lost as easily against any other team except Sydney and the Jets, if we played like that. I finally saw some better commitment and urgency, which was missing in the first half, despite the disparity in results (first half 1:2 to SFC, second half 0:2 to SFC). Sydney was also not trying that hard in the first half, in my own biased opinion, and must have got a talking-to by Arnie at half-time.
In the second half we got easily exposed to a counterattack because we committed ourselves forward and did not have enough skill on the park to counteract it. I actually did not see much evidence of the claim that Kalezic is allegedly "ultra-defensive", on that second half performance.
Still unsure about Parkhouse on the right, and I would have still liked to see Dario Vidosic on the park, but hey.
We missed Krishna but Singh was a good sight to behold. Not sure if it is fair to expect a kid to play week in week out though, he is slight and I would hate for him to be injured (like when a man-mountain, Jordy Buijs, decided to simply foul him instead of winning the ball).
Finally: poor passing accuracy is going to cost us games, and it has been our feature rather than a momentary lapse.