The 18-year-old copped a battering in his first 30 minutes on the field before departing with a hamstring complaint, however the youngster allayed any fears he’d be out for a period of time through injury.
“My head is ok and my hamstring is not too bad it was just a precaution coming of because it felt tight,” Ivanovic said.
I’m expecting a complacency free arse blasting to be dished out.
Normally the #2 goalkeeper puts in a world beating performance in these circumstances but after seeing his lack of confidence last week when he took to the field I can only imagine, non complacently, how devoid of self-belief he will be on Friday.
We will still concede in the first 10 minutes to a complacent Henrique shin off the post.
When the replacement keeper was getting his instructions he looked really scared and nervous… Just imagine your on the bench daydreaming and that happens!
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You’d be the expert on that, Ivan.
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Just observing the chaps body language as he was about to go on -and agreeing with you that’s all. ( I saw the game on TV)
What are the odds that Charles scores against us?
All good mate, I wasn’t having a go, you just misunderstood my post.
I wasn’t questioning your judgement of the player. I was just saying that you are the goalkeeper who you share your name with who made a career out of being a #2 and was similarly scared and nervous any time he was called upon.
It’s cringeworthy to say the least. I just hope they don’t wear those shitty maroon shirts.
I’d say that I like our odds but I don’t want to get complacent.
I feel like complacency may be an issue this game
You would expect Corica to recognise this and take steps to prevent it negatively affecting the team on game day.
Building complacency should be the tactic worked on at training this week. I suspect the training plan resembles something like this. 1 session a day, repeated each day, with the boys required to meet at Coogee, 10 pack of Somersby in hand, at no defined time. The intention of having a BBQ is never realised as Ufuk Talay forgets the sausages each day and Alex Cisak renders the unit u/s with one of his thongs melting into the hotplate during one of his “hot coal runs”. The hungry, drunken horde stumble their way over to the CBH for dinner only allowed in as Luke Ivanovic is mistakenly identified as Bernard Tomic and the rest of the squad resembling the people we assume Bernie would hang out with. Later in the night John Crawley jags a jackpot on the pokies and buys several rounds of shots resulting in Michael Zullo vomiting all over himself and passing out in the toilets. Adam Le Fondre, now dressed as a sausage roll, finds him and puts him in a cab. Instead of getting the cabbie to drop him at his house, he pays the driver in advance plus tip to take him to Gosford instead. On closing the boys head to Rhyan Grant’s place for kick-ons.
The aim will be to have the boys far to complacent to recognise the threat of complacency during the game thus rendering it a non issue.
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Coincidentally, that’s probably Dave Carney’s exact training regime this year. 
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Perfected over many years.
Dwight Yorke brought in as a training consultant.
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I’ve chucked the preview up on the front of the site:
I believe we will line up like this:
Previous Matches
Head-to-Head
Wins: 13 (31.0%)
Draws: 13 (31.0%)
Losses: 16 (38.1%)
Sydney FC record at Lang Park
Wins: 4 (20.0%)
Draws: 5 (25.0%)
Losses: 11 (55.0%)
Last 5 Matches
29/12/18 – Sydney FC 2 – 1 Brisbane Roar
17/03/18 – Sydney FC 1 – 2 Brisbane Roar
08/01/18 – Brisbane Roar 0 – 3 Sydney FC
25/11/17 – Sydney FC 3 – 1 Brisbane Roar
03/02/17 – Brisbane Roar 0 – 0 Sydney FC
Records
Biggest Win – 3 goals (2 games):
24/11/06 – Sydney FC 3 – 0 Brisbane Roar
08/01/18 – Brisbane Roar 0 – 3 Sydney FC
Biggest Loss – 4 goals:
19/10/13 – Brisbane Roar 4 – 0 Sydney FC
Most Goals in a Game – 9 goals:
15/03/15 – Sydney FC 5 – 4 Brisbane Roar
Most Appearances vs Brisbane Roar – Alex Brosque (26)*
Most Goals vs Brisbane Roar – Alessandro Del Piero, Alex Brosque* (5)
Key Statistics
- It has been 13 games since Sydney FC last played out a draw.
- Out of all of the grounds still used in the A-League, Lang Park is the place where Sydney FC have the worst away record – Sydney have won only 20% of games there.
- Sydney FC have only dropped two points to teams outside the top 6 this season.
Note: These statistics only include league games, finals, FFA Cup, OFC and AFC Champions League and Club World Cup, unless otherwise stated.
Given our recent domination of Brisbane, having won only 4 out of 20 at Lang Park is very hard to take.
I don’t think we will get complacent with Rhino back in the team. Rhino wouldn’t let us get complacent.
Although Gucci prefers Nando so he sounds a bit iffy
For years, as a non-Petersham resident, I sat on the sidelines of the great Oporto vs Nando’s debate by choosing Ogalo’s instead. But now that I work a 3 minute walk away on Castlereagh Ogalo’s has gone to shit. Woe is me.
Sounds like you got a bit complacent
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ALF dressed as sausage roll gave me a huge laugh
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