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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

southmelb said:
We've kept them in the game here. Next goal will be crucial, should be 5-1 if Lackay could finish.
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Not gonna convince me this bloke is a 'talent' ...

Did we finally sacrifice Swibbel so MessiRooney can play? Bonada proved a point tonight, ran and pressed like a madman!

That Massarouni dive turnover edge of the box that almost led to second goal gave me flashback of Altona first goal... week off didnt do all that much for us it seems...
 
If Bentleigh converted off that Messourouni turnover and made it 3-2 i could have seen us capitulate to a loss, those are the fine margins.

Only South can win 5-1 and have serious questions posed. The presidents son gets 80 minutes, Lackay who will never ever score a goal in this competition gets most of the game. Wtf has Mikkola done wrong to lose his spot to duds? Bit of anger in that penalty.

I really hope we dont lose Bonada, he was excellent.

No added time when its a thrashing is a pet peeve of mine. That was a genuine 5-6 minutes of time that should have been added on.
 
southmelb said:
If Bentleigh converted off that Messourouni turnover and made it 3-2 i could have seen us capitulate to a loss, those are the fine margins.
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100%
southmelb said:
Only South can win 5-1 and have serious questions posed. The presidents son gets 80 minutes, Lackay who will never ever score a goal in this competition gets most of the game. Wtf has Mikkola done wrong to lose his spot to duds? Bit of anger in that penalty.
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big questions thats for sure... it somewhat worked today but that starting lineup wouldnt get a look in against a better side one would hope!
That it was Bonada there and not swibbel with the nepobaby was a big positive..lets hope this is part of the compromise and he only plays these theoretically easier games...

IVe said all i have to say abouy Lackay, nothing more to qdd that we dont all see!
southmelb said:
I really hope we dont lose Bonada, he was excellent.
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Best on ground for me!
southmelb said:
No added time when its a thrashing is a pet peeve of mine. That was a genuine 5-6 minutes of time that should have been added on.
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Yep... dont think 5 or 6 but atleast 2 for good measure just for the delay of penalty..
 
Souk said:
Lackay was fine tonight
Was better than Pasquali
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Pasquali is allowed a bad game (i dont think it was) especially in a midfield lacking the support of a proper defensive midfielder/holder (Giannakop) and a proper attacking winger on the right (mikkola)... both he and Yuki were lost in this setup imo.
 
Lackay is at least a teenager, the problem is we cant be developing him whilst trying to win games, loan him out.

Messourouni is outright starting with 10 men.

The shift of Gianokopoulos to the back disjoints us but here we are cos Inglese is bang average. We won tonight simply because we have better players. Structurally the game did not look good. Bentleigh had heaps of space with the ball but were too shit to capitalise. We also thankfully had Bonada who ran his ass off. Could you imagine the front 3 being Messourouni, Lackay and Swibel?

We are barely a fraction of the dominant team we were in the Aus championship.

Big business needed when the window opens on Monday.

No it wasnt Pasqualis best game but he was in the thick of it when we went nuts in the first 10-15 mins. If he puts together a good 10-15 good things will happen in those 10-15.

Hopefully Uchida coming out was just a precaution
 
I'm not a massive fan of Mesa or Lackay but both were fine tonight
Didnt like the midfield set up as @southmelb said we allowed them too much space - Cocks is a good winger but loses his man often in transition
 
Souk said:
I'm not a massive fan of Mesa or Lackay but both were fine tonight
Didnt like the midfield set up as @southmelb said we allowed them too much space - Cocks is a good winger but loses his man often in transition
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Every time Messourouni loses the ball you never see a 2nd effort to either win the ball back or just make a smart foul. The problem is he loses it in central positions which leaves us vulnerable to getting stung the other way. He often refuses to play the simple ball and will try a low percentage shot. I've lost count of the amount of times he loses it on the edge of the box. Do that against a good team and you wont get far.
 
This is the rotation Siki was talking about during the start of the season. It will be staggered over the next couple of games..
 
Any rumours on signings I didn’t hear anything tonight I did see Dovison in a Bentleigh tracksuit
 
It was 11v9 (Mesa & Lackey are cones) & Bentleigh were still terrible, they are in trouble due to poor signings & injuries, they are in relegation scrap even with apparent 8 signings coming in. No surprise Mesa started against Bentleigh (petty axe to grind). Pasquali did the standard steady job in a scrappy midfield without any cutting edge forward passes.
Yeh, Dovison gone to Bentleigh but no real loss for smfc.
Need 2 wins from next 2 games to steady the side & strive for top 3 spot
 
Next week is like a new season because we dont know what teams are going to look like after transfers. Worrying about ourselves we need an injection of quality new signings. Something just feels off, even when we score we barely look excited.
 
Talk about a match of 2 halves. We started off like a house on fire with 2 quick goals within 4 minutes. Got a third half way through the first half. And then we gave away a goal. They only had one shot on goal for the first half and they converted it. The most frustrating part was that we missed another 2-3 certain goals. We were so wasteful. Luckily in the second half we kept them scoreless and we added another 2 goals. But that 15-20 minute period where Bentleigh had us on the back foot was unacceptable. That point of the game where Mesourouni turned the ball over and then Bentleigh missed that one on one to nearly make it 2-3 was heart in mouth moments.

Serious question marks around the starting XI. There must be a credible reason why you would start Lackay and Mesourouni. For me, Lackay is someone you bring on for the last 15 minutes to run at tired players. He is not a starting XI player. Lackay missed at least 3 certain goals. He can run but that’s about it.

Those midseason player signings cannot come soon enough.
 
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