I maintain it was a wet fish of an off target shot and was knocked into the goal by the defender.
Lucky we got it, a 2-2 draw would have been awful.
It crossed the line.
Count it.
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Has it been given to him. Looked like an own goal.
Right call. And now he gets to celebrate his first goal twice. Everybody wins.
Well, except Susnjar.
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Most importantly, I was right.
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It was a goal.
Counnt it.
The young kids are worshipping Bellingham these days.
First two scenarios 100% behind our players taking a shot, how close or open do you want to be before taking a shot? Mak is entitled to take a hit, Lolley even more so as the square pass was never on in that circumstance.
First two examples are already attacking moves into the penalty area and Fabio teeing up Glasson is exactly what Iād expect to happen from deep; exactly how I see Fabio working in our system. Fabioās forward runs is where he lacks, theyāre not in behind or into space which is why Wood, JK, Mak and Lolley find themselves in those goal scoring positions much more than he is.
Is he that type of player? Probably not, but any good attacker, particularly a striker should know how to get in behind. If Fabio gives us 8-10 goals and 10+ assists this season then its a pretty good return IMO.
Scenario 1, not even close. Mak had two defenders in front of him and a narrow path to goal. Gomez was completely open and it would have been a 99% chance of a goal. Second scenario, slightly more questionable, but still could have been a good chance at goal if heād passed.
The point still stands that we had 13 shots on target with 2 being goals and the third being an own goal. Perth had 2 shots on goal and 2 goalsā¦ If weāre taking shots, I expect them to go in, that sort of return is just crap and shows a problem with either our finishing, or our decision making. Itās further worth noting we had 33 shots in total, which is even worse. Granted we won, but if the players focused a bit more on passing in the final third, we could have been up by 5
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I think this sums up his season so far. Heās done quite a bit off the ball that has opened up defences and has been unselfish on a fair few occasions. Thereās been a few times heās made good, intelligent runs but his teammates havenāt read it properly. Hopefully with some more time it will click.
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This.
Not his fault some of his team mates canāt pass a ball accurately on occassion.
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thatās the question though, have they not read it properly, or have they purposefully ignored him?
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Our two āwingersā donāt hit the line and crossā¦ they cut in and shooooot. Our number 9 makes runs that a 6ā4 number 9 who specialises in headed goals would makeā¦ mostly.
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Thatās fine, but there were multiple comments during the last match where it was starting to get believable that our players were choosing to not pass to Gomez. Even if you take out the ones where our wingers cut in and shoot.
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Yeah that was definitely my impression going by the last few matches
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I canāt comment on other players avoiding passing to him, but I canāt really question his willingness to at least run for the cause. He does seem to work hard.
However, we do have the fact that he came to us from the Brazilian 2nd division (which i donāt know how to judge), but when at a similar league to ours (MLS) quite recently, didnāt set the world on fire and wasnāt kept on.
The A-League has been of a higher standard than the MLS for quite some time now.
I think the last time it was about par quality was when Golden Balls came out to Stadium Australia and got a lesson in humility.
Really struggling with this one.
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Iām struggling with the amendment. 
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