WPW R14 vs Brisbane Roar | Sun 2nd Feb | 8:00pm | Sky Sports 2

The Roar have lost 3 in a row but have no issues scoring goals. One of their CB's will be suspended for the red card vs Perth.

Huge game for our Final chances.

I hope Brisbanes keeper gets another start...

https://aleagues.com.au/videos/id/goal-caitlin-doeglas-34/6367779758112/

Get Zoe on earlier and keep on winning corners for her to head in!

Fenix

I hope Brisbanes keeper gets another start...

https://aleagues.com.au/videos/id/goal-caitlin-doeglas-34/6367779758112/

Ouch!

oops wrong thread

🔥🔥Game Day!🔥🔥

Would really like a win today to keep us in a solid spot for a run to the finals - won't be easy though

COYN

Our defenders and midfield will need to give them little space. Then bring Zoe on to score with a header.

We win we move up, lose and we stay where we are for another week.  COYN!

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Today's team news

- Fergusson dropped to the bench
- Tanaka back in the squad and is on the bench

Let's hope we don't need Neary then, jeez.

Ferguson dropped thank god ,but Main still on the bench,with Tanaka.

Hmm..

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Looks like a good crowd

Can’t say I’m keen on the white socks

Great work by Barry

Whinhams covering an awful lot of ground,  setting up in attack and midfield. She's doing well, but we are set up quite defensively.  Trouble is, Whinham can't shoot.

We’ve had some great intent for the ten minute’s. 

Varley "the destroyer" is off for Brisbane,lol

We have wasted a few golden opportunities. I hope the half time talk sorts that out

Overall playing quite well - connecting passes, exploiting the flanks and have definitely created more opportunities than the home side. Considering we went in underdogs that's a good thing. The likes of Laini Freier, Yallop and Popadinova have been kept pretty quiet.

Off some of the close misses we should probably be 1-0 up - but some poor finishing and decision making has let us down. 

Just hope we can keep playing like this and snag the one or two goals we need to get the win.

Brisbane have scored the most goals of anyone in the league. I guess that explains our setup - and they have created zilch.

Even with our set up,we should be in front.  Jale has had more touches, and good touches, than a season of Ferguson  but for all that our shots have been benign.

We could probably take this to a draw comfortably, but I hope we utilize Main and Tanaka to get the win.

Fenix

Brisbane have scored the most goals of anyone in the league. I guess that explains our setup,and they have created zilch.

Even with our set up,we should be in front.  Jale had had more touches than a season of Ferguson  but for all that our shots have been benign.

We could probably take this to a draw comfortably, but I hope we utilize Main and Tanaka to get the win.

Yep if we can continue to restrict them like we are, and eek out the goal or two to get us the win, it would be a very impressive result indeed.

Bloody hell.  

I would really like to see us score now.  

Typical we have six corners and they have one and score off it 

Bring on the subs 

That was not the goal I wanted

Got the god damn dreaded Fotmob notification before that went in. 😮‍💨

Damn that's frustrating

Ferguson, our secret weapon

Fenix

Ferguson, our secret weapon

It'll be interesting to see how she goes being fresh off the bench against a tired defence for once

Changes not before time,fgs

I need a heroine, who is it going to be??? 

The Roar seem to be getting away with a lot 

Our corners are garbage

Procrastinixing

Our corners are garbage

We are making so many opportunities at the moment but just not testing the keeper and defence anywhere near as much as we should be!

I'm very grumpy now.  FFS. 

Too little too.late. 
Ferguson on much too early.
The others on much too late.
Our shooting is woeful.

We can look really good and quite dominant all over the pitch - except in the final 3rd, it's the part of our game that is really letting us down at the moment. And this match is another that has really highlighted that unfortunately

That added time was laughably short. Not to mention the inconsistency of yellow cards!

Abbott not ready yet by the looks of it

Why isn't Tanaka starting.  Perhaps I should have asked at the event the other night.  

Our shots are weak, we have no power.  Another weekend goes by with no goals scored.  We've got Victory on Saturday, I'm expecting another loss.  

Performance wise frustrating - we did a lot right at the back and in midfield, just couldn't convert our chances on attack. Wrong decisions at times.

Case in point - Elliot got through on the right in the second half, advances into the box, has Jale and one other to tee up in the box and tries the unlikely shot herself... we don't win games by topping the shot count, you have to create good clear-cut opportunities. These 1-5% shots might go in every now and then but you can't rely on them, having said that we got better once the subs came on and started crossing it in towards players in good positions.