What rubbish. Sack 'em all. Apart from Diego, we can't even say we were under-strength - that was the strongest possible team we could have put out on the park.
Well done Reading.
Knee injury for Torres according to the Setanta commentary. Precautionary more than anything, I think.
Mind you, what we're saving him for this season, I don't know. We're 13 minutes away from a new embarrassing low. And we entirely deserve to be trailing.
It's a funny theory considering United's match at Birmingham is still scheduled to go ahead at this stage, and may be one the few matches to be actually played.
Wigan vs Villa isn't off, but pitch inspection at 8.30am local time will decide if it will be postponed. So we could be down to four...
I assume we're going with 4-2-3-1, although it could yet be a 3-4-2-1
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Kemp---Moore---Colosimo---Heffernan
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Sterjovski------Carle----------Vidosic
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Oman won 2-1, so very very...
The bloke has been the best full-back in the A-League this season by a street and would be romping home in our Victory Medal for most valuable player. I can't see how he doesn't deserve a spot in tonight's eleven. Of course he won't be going to the World Cup, tonight is all about making sure we...
Geez we're unconvincing in the last few minutes. Wigan certainly should have scored once and probably should have done better there too.
But Nando pops in a very messy second and we're home. Phew.
Playing OK so far today. Seem to have a better passing rhythm with Gerrard playing deeper alongside Mascherano tonight, the captain has been much more involved. Still think we could be susceptible to a quick counter.
For what it's worth I think playing Johnson on the right wing wouldn't work...
There's your goal of the season! Wow!
(For those that didn't see it, Maynor Figueroa quickly took a free kick from inside his own half and lobbed Sorensen, with the ball landing in the back of the net. Amazing.)
Don't see why we need Etihad. One Melbourne ground should be enough if all the other cities are involved plus major regionals have their stadia upgraded (Newcastle, Canberra, Gold Coast, Wollongong).
Let the little boys have their cake and eat it. I think we all recognise the AFL's...
Nope.
And totally agree with Hoggy, Aussie clubs have done well in this comp considering the disadvantage of playing in our off-season, which has been a killer in some tight games where match fitness comes into play. That Sydney side in 2007 really should have knocked Urawa out, they were 2-0...
I haven't seen Butt take one for Bayern yet, but as Embers said he was fairly prolific at Leverkusen.
Juve were just awful. Diego in particular had a shocker. A dream match-up in the Europa League awaits. :cool:
In a disturbing development...
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=710211&sec=england&cc=3888
Really, there are some things the press should not be able to report.
If it's the same as this season, top two go through, but the round of 16 is only one game: Newcastle finished 2nd this year, went to Pohang and got spanked 6-0. So very important to top the group still.
Really looking forward to it, at least our coaching staff have that experience of Asia...
You've got to worry when your creative force is playing as a right back. Apart from Johnson and flashes from Gerrard, we haven't created anything here. A lot more huffing and puffing in the second half but very few moments of quality.
Magnificent run by Johnson, squares it beautifully for N'Gog but the ball bounced up a bit and instead of a certain goal he smashes it into the bar.
El Zhar for Benayoun. Well doesn't that just scream win.
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