It is the finals. all bets are off. I am more worried about any trigger happy referee dishing out cards to our players than about our opposition.
CCM have travel, and a short turnaround, so Sydney might be perhaps considered favourites for the first leg? Suddenly a lot depends on Lolley's hamstring.
CCM have travel, and a short turnaround, so Sydney might be perhaps considered favourites for the first leg? Suddenly a lot depends on Lolley's hamstring.
with that said I will be whipping out all the prayers for Sydney to win both legs because at least we actually beat them this season
Not so. Some AV tweet from memory that they had twice dropped points when returning away AFC Cup ties (pool game & game in India), and then playing ALM games on a short turnaround.
Of course post their away semi in Kyrgyzstan they had the following Adelaide ALM game postponed. So we never found out if that would have been 3 ALM games, dropped points returning from away AFC Cup ties.
Barring any travel delays returning home, they will only get 2-3 days rest before facing Sydney on Friday night.
Barcellos (who provided the nice assist for Kuol's winner last night) came on at HT for Theoharous. No idea if Theoharous picked up an injury.
Amazing that they have done their whole AFC Cup campaign in cattle class.
https://www.watoday.com.au/sport/soccer/central-coast-mariners-on-track-for-unprecedented-treble-after-winning-afc-cup-20240506-p5fp3a.html
Players and staff have flown more than 100,000 kilometres to play games in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Kyrgyzstan and, finally, Oman – all in economy class – a feat that has added a huge physical and mental burden on top of their A-League title defence.