I didn’t want this to get lost in the match day thread.
No doubt they’ve been the best team in the comp over the last two seasons. Squad depth is poor but they’ve done something miraculous to keep the injuries away and generally get their best XI on the field every week. Can’t argue with the quality of Bobo, Adrian & Ninkovic but imagine if they had the same injuries we’ve copped. Bobo out for half the season like Roy, and Adrian out for most of the season aka Vargas. That’s not counting the minor injuries we’ve had to Pato, Georgevski, Kanta. Considering Bobo and Adrian have scored over half their goals, that would have made a helluva difference.
I may be biased but I’d be starting to worry as a Sydney fan. They’ve now got 5 games to play that don’t mean a lot so keeping the motivation will be hard. The premiership has been sewn up for a while. Even Arnold has been desperately trying to bleat on about goals and points records to try and keep the players hungry. They didn’t look it last night.
That’s 3 games against us now that they haven’t looked like the dominating force they usually are. We’ve proven to be a massive thorn in their side and the one capable of upsetting the apple cart on the big day.
The ACL is only proving to them that they aren’t invincible and now Arnie’s gotta juggle his squad between the two. His arrogance meant he put out a best XI against us and it’ll be interesting to see if it backfires come Wednesday.
What price they get knocked out in the GF qualifier?