I’m officially done with the experiment.
I’m officially done with the experiment.
Yeah that was a career definer for Charles I think
Charles should’ve scored but I wouldn’t blame him for us not winning. Newcastle were poor in the first half and we should’ve scored one or two more at that point but Newcastle picked up the intensity in the second half and we couldn’t cope.
Overall, there was a lot of effort by both teams but not a lot of quality overall.
I was worried we’d win with the cheap 1st goal…
Love how our tactic after they equalised was to hit it long, do nothing with it, and let the jets came back at us. Hopefully that attempted switch/shank by Charles has spurred on the search for a buhagiar replacement
To be fair to charlie, Alfie missed the same one on one in the first half. Should have won it by 3 or 4. Newcastle play well for 15 mins and get an equaliser. Pretty unlucky
Really annoying to see us panicking and booting the ball from the 70th minute on - too early to be playing that way - gave them a lot of ball and confidence. No surprise that we nearly scored when we decided to pass the ball positively like we had been earlier.
Once again Bimbi waited too long for changes - I know we haven’t got the strongest bench, but it was evident they were coming over the top.
I’m pretty disappointed with that. We’ll see how Perth go away to Adelaide but we might’ve just lost our spot at the top of the table. Were we doing zonal marking when they scored because no one attack the ball or tracked that run. If it was zonal it was probably O’Niells fault but he had a superb game bar that
Charles isn’t good enough and it’s hurting the team - the momentum changed significantly (not for the first time) when he came on as we couldn’t keep the ball in the opposition half. Awful miss too.
Shame about the goal - O’Neill flat footed (was down injured a minute earlier which affected him I assume).
Just couldn’t get that last pass or finish right. A lot of crosses just a foot or two off target. Annoying.
We put pressure on ourselves by giving them the ball when lobbing it long. I don’t understand why you’d change the tactics when we were on top. Corica is still an inexperienced manager and he’ll get better. Maybe there was some analysis behind the tactic, because realistically I’m just a nobody with an opinion and they’re the trained professionals
I’m not sure it was so much a change of tactics by Corica. Newcastle stepped up the tempo in the second half and we were getting pretty tired, we sat very deep and it was getting more and more difficult to play out from the back. The equaliser was almost inevitable with all of that pressure.
Same thing happened in the FFA cup. A little bit concerning considering our second half performance the last two years saved us in most games.
DDS didn’t really have any impact. Not sure he is useful out wide. Perhaps Devlin might have been a better option for retre
As disappointing as Charles was, I’m more concerned about DDS and another anonymous effort. Charles is clearly 3rd or 4th string and nothing is gonna change that. But DDS should be banging down the door for a first team spot and he’s shown jack.
How can a stadium in a beach side town have zero seagulls and yet. that shit heap down south is full of the bastards!!??
Disappointing draw.
A game of 2 halves and a huge armwrestle. I felt we lost when Retre went off. He wasnt flashy and didnt offer much going forward, but we missed his work rate and industrious mentality. Jets really controlled the midfield once he went off.
Big chance for Charles. A shame he didnt take it. Far too early to judge DDS. The guy is just coming back from injury. Very hard to come off the bench and influence a game in just 15 minutes. Unless your name is David Carney or Bernie Ibini.
Thinking back on it, I think the game demonstrates that we can still be pretty reliant on Zullo to provide width a lot of the time and when he has an off game (or in his case a quiet game) we suffer as a result. Almost all our promising attacks came from a central position which tended to make us pretty narrow. The goal was the main exception to that.
We’re really seeing how important our bench was the past two seasons. Both Carney and Simon in different ways were able to occupy the opposition and stop the kind of all-out assault we got last night. Our current bench just relieves the pressure on the opponent and invites them onto us.
If we had Brosque coming off the bench as was planned, we’d be a very different side.
On the plus side, we played some gorgeous football at times. On another night we’d have got a second goal and it wold have been game over.
Charles…f***!
In Summary
Sydney started strong against Newcastle in yesterday’s game, however Newcastle’s goal from a corner rescued a point for last season’s runners-up.
Adam Le Fondre started well for the Sky Blues, heading a ball onwards and putting himself in a great position to beat the keeper. His placed effort went just wide, however. It didn’t take long for Sydney to open the scoring though, as Brandon O’Neill sprayed a fabulous ball out to Rhyan Grant on the wing, who put in a great near-post cross in for Alex Brosque . Brosque headed it low and at the keeper. A poor attempted save saw it go into the back of the net and Sydney were up 1-0.
The rest of the first half didn’t see too many clear opportunities for either side as the game descended into an arm-wrestle through the middle of the park. Sydney were playing some lovely football however, keeping possession well and winning back the ball regularly in midfield. Topor-Stanley was having a good game at the back for the Jets, however, and he blunted many Sydney attacks.
The second half started fairly slowly, but there was one opportunity as Jop van der Linden put through a ball for Milos Ninkovic , who put in a low cross for Le Fondre. Moss was able to smother it, however. Ninkovic also had a dipping strike from range which Moss had to tip around the bar.
As the game wore on, however, Sydney gradually ceded more and more possession and started sitting deeper. Whether it was fatigue or the Jets actually turning up, it did result in more chances for the home side. A corner taken by Petratos was turned in by Cowburn at the near post. Joshua Brillante , who had otherwise played well, probably could have done more to keep the shot out and Brandon O’Neill , who was also playing well, could have done more to challenge Cowburn, but with the way the game was going it is hard to say we deserved the win too much.
With the game nearing an end, substitute Charles Lokoli-Ngoy had a fantastic one-on-one opportunity with the keeper which he could have taken on his left boot. He slowed the ball and took it on his right however, and Moss was able to smother it. It is easy to see that this may be one of those moments that people will remember when judging his performance at the club.
You can view the match highlights here:
https://www.sydneyfc.com/video/full-time-highlights-newcastle-jets-v-sydney-fc-1
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