Ah the grumpy old men squad are here.
I see a young team who defended with all their bloody heart and when they made interceptions like Shermy did, got calls against each other.
How about Malik- all that BS about Roly (who by the way had two cheap shots on his knee) two late tackles in professional foul position?
Sure we made some bad challenges, but we also tracked, ran and shut them down time and time again. How many really good chances did they have? Not many. We have had some appalling displays in Hindmarsh and I remember every bloody one of them and this was not one of them.
Did Adelaide deserve to win? No they did not.
Problem is if you give the ball away like we did, offer basically no attacking threat and rely only on defending you give up chances and good teams will take them.
We got away with it against Central Coast, we didn't here. The referee didn't help with the goal but if they'd scored with one of the other three or four good chances we'd have had no complaints.
Shermy looked scared of the ball. Lia is Lia, Rodriguez is the new Lia. And our best attacker, the only guy who looks a threat on the break, got subbed, leaving Cunningham and Krishna, neither of whom have any sense of how to keep the ball up front. Very strange decisions from Ernie.
sure. So could we have scored on the counter 2 or 3 times. Those are the tactics and the risks. Worked against WSW, didn't work against Victory and almost and should've worked here.
Shermy was absolutely exhausted. Cos he'd slogged his guts out all game. and made a good challenge in the dying minutes.
Ernie played the hand he had. It almost worked. And At 92 minutes deserved to.
Only your opinion.
True, but I try not to have the rose coloured glasses on.
Doesn't mean you have to audition to be a commentator for the Adelaide tv coverage.
Though to be fair when we were shutting their midfield down it was like Adelaide were playing golf and hadn't got their swing working- the guy said Adelaide hadn't got their attack going, but no mention of Phoenix pressing.
Did you really think what Roly got carded for was a foul? Sure he had a couple of late fouls earlier and deserved the card, but that was shoulder to shoulder and Elrich was simply weak and knew the ref was likely to call for him if he dropped to the deck.
Also, no desrespect Mr Legg. I'm just awfully anxious for the Phoenix to get a bit of Ernie time.