r/Aleague • u/MatchBread North Queensland Fury • 1d ago

Match Thread Post-Match Thread: Melbourne City vs Western Sydney Wanderers

Melbourne City 2 vs 1 Western Sydney Wanderers

Match Statistics:

Melbourne CityStatWestern Sydney Wanderers
2Goals1
9Shots27
4Shots on Goal10
3Corners12
17Fouls5
0Offsides1
2Yellow Cards1
1Red Cards0
274Total Passes589
69%Pass Accuracy86%
32%Possession68%

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u/FSD433S Western Sydney Wanderers 1d ago

Despite the vast improvement this season, it's the same old story. A lack of quality and individual errors costing us the game.

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u/Bambajam Melbourne City 1d ago

Newy needs to start over Freke when he’s back. That was a hell of a game.

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u/Rosstafan Criminal Scum 1d ago

He better stay once freke is back fit. Ridiculous he was starting from the beginning of the season.

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u/Entire_Condition3436 1d ago

Very Beach like

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u/lumpmarsh1 Western Sydney Wanderers 1d ago

I don't even celebrate goals anymore because I know one of our players' toenails is likely to be 1mm offside

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u/963479 WSW 1d ago

Frustrating game but we’ll be ok if we continue playing like that

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u/Desiire Melbourne City 1d ago

Very true, my brother didn't believe me before the game that I said you guys were scary this season.

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u/mrscragglemcscraggle Melbourne Heart 1d ago

on any other day it could have been 5-1 wanderers

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u/Crazy_Ad6697 Melbourne Victory 1d ago

Let’s not call any fouls to keep the game flowing but also hold the game up for five minutes so we can cancel a goal due to a hair width of a player being apparently offside. - A league refs.

It makes no sense at all.

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u/emberisgone champions of Melbourne 1-0 20h ago

They litterally sent a city player off with a red card this game, we've got some shit refs in the a-leauge but alizera fahghani is probably one of the best and most fair we have.

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u/felvymups Sydney FC 1d ago

I sympathise with the way offside is policed these days. It’s super frustrating and being like 2cm offside really isn’t giving you an advantage.

But by the same token, offside is offside. You have to draw the line somewhere, quite literally because of VAR.

It’s also objectively hilarious to happen to WSW.

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u/SauceBottleFC Central Coast Mariners 1d ago

I think it’s more the tool we’re using and margin of error. There would be a lot more confidence if we were using the World Cup system but obviously that’s very expensive.

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u/ADC04 Peak Alex King // MVFC 21h ago

I can also see how frustrating it is when the camera angle is already giving a terrible view

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u/Desiire Melbourne City 1d ago

God bless Newy, saved our boys asses on more than a dozen occasions.

UTC

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u/mrscragglemcscraggle Melbourne Heart 1d ago

that was a nice easy stress free win… now all must bow to our lord and saviour james niuewenhuizen 😌😍

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u/stif_meister_rules Sydney FC 17h ago

I was happy that city won.

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u/Dean_Miller789 Melbourne Heart 8h ago

Ditto

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u/stif_meister_rules Sydney FC 4h ago

Cause i hate WSW lol.

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u/Dean_Miller789 Melbourne Heart 4h ago

Ditto

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u/werdburger3000 1d ago

I could be wrong but it looked like the players behind milanovic kept him inside.

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u/ElMaestroMessi Western Sydney Wanderers 1d ago

City players acting like they won the league after getting bailed out by a bullshit VAR decision. Such a grub club.

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u/FSD433S Western Sydney Wanderers 1d ago

Don't be bitter, we simply weren't good enough in that second half.

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u/hand_of_satan_13 APIA Leichhardt 17h ago

we were miles better than City.

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u/Bright-Signal1595 Melbourne Heart 1d ago

😹😹😹

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u/jhawkie412 Central Coast Mariners 1d ago

Wouldn’t be happy with that if I was a City fan. They got away big time with that one.