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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

That was huge win tonight.

The players came out breathing fire tonight. The loss against Green Gully and narrow win over Dandenong Thunder must have hit a nerve. They came out of the player race steely eyed and focused on smashing Dandenong City. The early goal within the second minute of the match helped to give the players a bit of confidence and extra boost to push on. There were a few moments there in the first half where Dandenong City could have equalised. But the defence stood strong and Charlston made some good saves to keep Dandenong City out.

Special call out to our new signings. Sinisa brought on the new signings to give them match time, which was smart. Yoo caused all sorts of headaches for the opposition and there were times where he was double teamed. He is linking up with Uchida well. Ramazani was really solid. Nothing got past him. If he was just a tad taller, he would have great aerial presence. Retre showed some good signs and playing for 10-15 minutes. You can see he’s played at a higher level. Hard to make a judgement on Juach and Nkomo, but happy they had match time.

Thankfully with Ramazani starting at Crntre Back, that allowed Giannakopoulos to move back to his midfield position. We looked much tighter in the middle of the park and were able to snuff out attacks further away from our penalty box.

It was an important win. Three points and we temporarily move back into the top 6. Our goal difference is now just -1.

Now comes 2 very difficult NPL matches against Preston (H), Oakleigh (A), and we host Adelaide United in the Australia Cup at the end of July. If we are going to be a serious threat, we need to win them.
 
Jankovic waa fired up tonight was going off at everyone and I actually didn't mind seeing him find his voice. I predicted we would win but I was expecting more from Dandy City co spidering the big wins they have had over Heidelberg and Avondale.

Maybe just maybe with the new boys coming in we will give the top 6 a run for its money. Win against Preston and we move into 4th. Stupid to play such a big game at 3:15pm on a Saturday but it is what it is
 
southmelb said:
Team was a lot better balanced tonight.

Our away form is ridiculous. Now we need to put in a big one at Lakeside.
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Totally diferent game this saturday... Preston have much more quality than Dandy and will press our MF and DF a lot more! Charlston will need to be fully alert at every opportunity especially bc they bring in height at set pieces (that reaction save in 1st was world class).. our llines will need to be a lot tighter, and we will need to press from the top down, this to me means mikkola starts instead of cocks and Juach is.on from minute 1.
Dont predict heaps of chances here.so have to be clinical when they present themselves and avoid silly mistakes (there was again a few but dandy was too out of sorts, shut down, to capitalise)..


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I thought Cocks was disappointing last night. Maybe he has more limitations than I thought, and that he should go back to being an impact substitution. It now looks like we can afford to do that.

Yet, we still found time to give Nepo Baby a run! And poor old Lackay misses out, to accommodate all the money that daddy gives us.
 
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