WPM Semi Final Leg 2 vs Melbourne Victory | Sat 18th May | 6:30pm | RoF | March @ 5:30pm

Here comes another useless corner.

Yip.

Why don't we play short? 

Really feels like the Nix have not worked on set pieces this season. penalties, corners and free kicks have all been poor.

Maybe they can score from this corner…

Hello darkness my old friend 😭

Far post again. Same result.

How could he be left alone at the back post?

Marto

Bring on LKH and Al-Taay.

 
That is a good idea, imo.

Hellas_johnny

How could he be left alone at the back post?

We don't seem to focus set plays, attacking or defending, in our training.

martinb

Marto

Bring on LKH and Al-Taay.

 
That is a good idea, imo.

fresh legs needed.

This is too much

Here we go. Phoenix score three goals in 15 minutes while victory scores nothing woo

mikecj

Here we go. Phoenix score three goals in 15 minutes while victory scores nothing woo

Fire up! Calmly!

A lot of poor crossing without corners too…

Surprised Miranda hasn't been booked yet.

Bringing all the attacking weapons!

martinb

A lot of poor crossing without corners too…

Bit of slipping over too

Shoot the ball into the 7 man backline 

Salas, come on, we need some quality.

Feels like this is winding up. Come on boys

Marto

Surprised Miranda has 't been booked yet.

 
I mean…
4th foul from a Victory player lying down. 

Rob Morrison getting scammed by a gang. It’s not Uli. 

mikecj

Feels like this is winding up. Come on boys

Yeah we've lost all shape. 

ACTUALLY SCORE FROM A CORNER please

Fudge

Ugh can't bear to watch the MV celebrations when this is done.

Long far post maybe?

Good game. Great season. Let’s do it all again next season. Do one better though 😁

Thank you for a great season.

❤️ 

What a shocker of a corner! Bloody hell.

We are so wasteful from he corners. But how poor were we defending their second goal. Basically just standing there completely unmarked

YouTube and NZ had Piney and co. Glad about that, Australia had cods doing the voice over commentary. Would not have enjoyed that.

Can we call it fallen at the first hurdle yet again? 

We finished second and still couldn't do it, beyond disappointing

And we finish with nothing to show for our season. How deflating.

Wootten has had the best season of his career and a number of the young guys have shown how good our academy is. 

Sadly our poor set plays at both ends of the park have cost us the league and the playoffs.

Could well be the last we see of Kosta, Kraev, Zawada, Old, Surman and Paulsen.

To be honest I thought all week MV would sneak this one but we gave it a good shot and the Nix will have hopefully turned a lot of bandwagoners into actual fans next season.

Exciting stuff but disappointing. Wonder how long it will be before we get so close to some actual silverware.

Sad for tonight. 
Proud of the season. 
Thanks for the roller coaster. 
Can’t wait to go again! 
COYN!!

Obviously delighted to be in this position to grieve a extra time loss in the semi final. But this one hurt particularly because this team is fully capable of winning it all. It wasn't luck and that last minute goal is one of the best feelings I have had felt. Unfortunately equalling the worst. We need to back up next season and not pull a Wahs.

We’re so crap at corners. We won 11-3 on corners, but their winner came from one. 

Excellent season.

Unfortunately, the boys missed a penalty, a virtually open goal, and hit the upright.

3-1 in the first 90 on a different day :(

martinb

We’re so crap at corners. We won 11-3 on corners, but their winner came from one. 

We had very few decent shots on goal, too. I can only think of two worth bothering about, both from Zawada and one was the last corner we had.

I'm glad its raining on the way out to hide my tears 😭

Nommag

We are so wasteful from he corners. But how poor were we defending their second goal. Basically just standing there completely unmarked

Hard to fault Surman after his season. But think he’s at fault there, sadly. 

Still an out of this world hit from Traore decided it imo. Feels better than the loss to CCM.

I am so unbelievely proud of the team - what a season, never give up attitute!
On another day we would have easily won that - had the better chances, didn't always have the rub of the green/whistle.
I love Football - but golly she is a cruel mistress sometimes.
The emergence of talent this year of future all whites is so very exciting.
C'mon the nix!

Absolutely gutted. MV go to their eight grand final. Nix still not there after seventeen years. Still immensely proud of our team. To be honest I wouldn’t have fancied our chances in a penalty shootout but overall I thought we were the better team. We certainly had more scoring chances. I hope we can build on this season and go for it next season.