I'll take that, similar to the WSW game, hot arse conditions and we battle a draw, historically we get smashed, but our defence holds and we remain unbeaten. Ifwe can make our home a fotress and we can hold points in away games then we'll be in good a good spot come end of the season.
I've seen some horrible Nix games down the years but that one is right up there! Still, a fantastically valuable point and a scrappy spirited performance from our, let's face it, very average team.
I feel like this is how good teams win competitions, hard point away against a decent WSW, hard point ground out against a top of the table this season victory. Both way from home, as long as we take the points at home against these teams we finish high on the table if not take it out.
Wasn't pretty but I'll take it, like that wsw game was a good defensive performance for the full 90. A Talay nix side would have let in 3 or 4 tonight.
Well, the refs had a shocker, but given what the players and the coaches serve up at times, he’s allowed the odd one.
The Pennington offside is simply wrong if that is the image.
Tbh the other ones are tight calls and the overruled handball is just a nervy call.
Happy with a point today, but hope we have a bit more threat later in the season. Zawada immense. Good to see Chief trusting the depth of our squad. Edit: Payne too, immense. They kept coming and he kept tackling and blocking.
surprised I am still alive, following since day one and have the ambos on speed dial for that reason. I think we bottled up Victory well enough tonight, dont forget we were up against a very hot attack tonight. Two best strikers in the league and neither got a sniff. Out goal I am pretty sure came from the Victory defender knowing OZ was right behind him for the tap in so had to make the lunge
Those possession and passing stats tell a story, don't they. We might have struggled to get shots away but if you hold the ball half the time you have a degree of control, your D gets a break and you have something to build on. Fantastic organisation and D again and this side has ticker. They had no shots all game. Yeh, bro. And you couldn't beat us. And we'll get better.
I'm assuming Paulsen will be MoM? He was very good all night. Great punching to clear the high balls, safe work with his feet, good smothering saves.
Can't see how any outfielder would get near him. I'm talking about among the Nix of course. The commentary team will almost certainly give their MoM to a MV player.
Talking heads hamming it up on the 0 shots just so they don't have to fully focus on the reffing
They did say we should have had a pen and that Victory should have got a yellow based on his yellow for diving with more contact. Correctly me if im wrong but they all but said our goal was because the defender knew OZ was there for a tap in if he didnt slide in for it. So we would have gone one shot for one goal. Two from two if the pen was called ;) then again, that resets everything after so who knows.
Those possession and passing stats tell a story, don't they. We might have struggled to get shots away but if you hold the ball half the time you have a degree of control, your D gets a break and you have something to build on. Fantastic organisation and D again and this side has ticker. They had no shots all game. Yeh, bro. And you couldn't beat us. And we'll get better.
Not to mention that for all the commentators talk of "Victory should've had 3 or 4", they actually only racked up 1.24xG (0.90 of that in the first half). A lot of their shots were from unthreatening positions, and after the first 30-40ish minutes, they didn't really make any inroads at all.