A lacklustre game by Roar for 60+ minutes I am afraid.
We seem to be playing more and more defensively with each passing game, although I expected this to be a hard fought struggle game beforehand.
Herrington got nutmegged by a brilliant touch from Kraev to advance into the box, with Klein covering well to stop anything further - but it doesn't count against Herrington. Just a real unexpected quality touch by Kraev. The goal line clearance by Herrington off a Kraev header more than balanced that out.
The last 10-15 minutes of the game Wanderers peppered the Roar goal mouth - clearly capable of building an attack they just lacked the presence and luck to finish any one of them. They would be spewing not to have taken the three points.
Got to say the ref was a tosser when he was getting cranky at us getting set for our first long throw. As the commentators said at the time, Wanderers had been taking ages to do long throws all game. Coach Stajic got cranky over our 'time wasting' when his player ripped the shoelace out of Klein's top lace hole and Klein had to relace his boot. Whinger. The ref prejudging our time wasting though shows a lack of impartiality I don't like regardless of what has happened in previous games.
Bility had 2 awful moments - one passing the ball direct to a free Wanderers player and the second having no clue where Kraev was behind him for the best Wanderers chance when Kraev headed over the bar unguarded. You could see Bility turning to follow the path of the ball and nodding his head towards it in futile hope when it was a good metre away from him.
I agree - let's hope it is just cobwebs as he was starting to improve his impact on games when he was last playing regularly.
Klein off with a concussion substitution is bad for us. He is one of the key cogs in our team when he is playing well.
We had a more balanced period of play for a good spell at the start of the second half, but the longer the half went on the more our substitutions made us play with less and less direction and focus - other than to drop back to our defensive positions sooner and let Wanderers pass round our one or two forwards attempting to slow the attack pointlessly.
Disrupting our 'set starters' with injuries and rotation is proving to be more damaging to our play than should be expected. I did not feel like we were going to score - although the two times O'Shea lined up a shot there was a glimmer of hope - but every time a cross came in we looked toothless with no-one attacking the ball and just lofted headers with no direction or drive being easily defended.
Open play remains our best chance of goals and playing without a midfield presence like today stuffs up our chances of building those.
I liked Borello for his return for the Wanderers. He made an impact and had a few chances. Barbarouses on the other hand seems less and less effective for all the effort he puts in.
We seem to be playing more and more defensively with each passing game, although I expected this to be a hard fought struggle game beforehand.
Herrington got nutmegged by a brilliant touch from Kraev to advance into the box, with Klein covering well to stop anything further - but it doesn't count against Herrington. Just a real unexpected quality touch by Kraev. The goal line clearance by Herrington off a Kraev header more than balanced that out.
The last 10-15 minutes of the game Wanderers peppered the Roar goal mouth - clearly capable of building an attack they just lacked the presence and luck to finish any one of them. They would be spewing not to have taken the three points.
Got to say the ref was a tosser when he was getting cranky at us getting set for our first long throw. As the commentators said at the time, Wanderers had been taking ages to do long throws all game. Coach Stajic got cranky over our 'time wasting' when his player ripped the shoelace out of Klein's top lace hole and Klein had to relace his boot. Whinger. The ref prejudging our time wasting though shows a lack of impartiality I don't like regardless of what has happened in previous games.
Bility had 2 awful moments - one passing the ball direct to a free Wanderers player and the second having no clue where Kraev was behind him for the best Wanderers chance when Kraev headed over the bar unguarded. You could see Bility turning to follow the path of the ball and nodding his head towards it in futile hope when it was a good metre away from him.
I agree - let's hope it is just cobwebs as he was starting to improve his impact on games when he was last playing regularly.
Klein off with a concussion substitution is bad for us. He is one of the key cogs in our team when he is playing well.
We had a more balanced period of play for a good spell at the start of the second half, but the longer the half went on the more our substitutions made us play with less and less direction and focus - other than to drop back to our defensive positions sooner and let Wanderers pass round our one or two forwards attempting to slow the attack pointlessly.
Disrupting our 'set starters' with injuries and rotation is proving to be more damaging to our play than should be expected. I did not feel like we were going to score - although the two times O'Shea lined up a shot there was a glimmer of hope - but every time a cross came in we looked toothless with no-one attacking the ball and just lofted headers with no direction or drive being easily defended.
Open play remains our best chance of goals and playing without a midfield presence like today stuffs up our chances of building those.
I liked Borello for his return for the Wanderers. He made an impact and had a few chances. Barbarouses on the other hand seems less and less effective for all the effort he puts in.
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