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That's how Sydney entered the match, three days after losing the FFA Cup final.
It is clear that Steve Corica maintains Graham Arnold's rotation policy without having any. That mattered little, as the premiers won a 3-0 win over a lazy Melbourne City team, which gave no indication that they were ready to take on a potentially tired opponent.
It was perhaps the best opportunity for City to end the Sky Blues race and, frankly, they seemed too inert to take it.
Of course, with Siem de Jong and Trent Buhagiar injured, there was less body for the rotation of Sydney, even if they had wanted it. Daniel De Silva – fit enough for an appearance in the Cup final – was again on the bench, with the worker like Paulo Retre on the right.
Warren Joyce had adjusted his attack by starting Dario Vidosic in place of Lachie Wales; Wales had not been great against Central Coast last weekend, and Vidosic had equalized just after he came in. He had also brought Harrison Delbridge closer to home. against the Mariners, returned to his center, the center back, with Scott Jameison slipped into the left-back role.
Sydney started rolling through their pbades; City are still conservative under Joyce and seemed to be content to allow their opponents to hit him. This is a bad idea against Sydney, because the more slow and easy the possession is, the more likely it is that he suddenly clicks and cuts to the goal.
The other effect of voluntarily giving up the ball in the first stanzas of the game is to prevent City to warm his touch, to settle in the wake of the competition; When Michael Zullo stole the ball from a very heavy Riley McGree, sowing the seed for the purpose that would then bloom, it was an example of such inconvenience in action. Skilfully working on the right, Rhyan Grant sent a flayed center to the cross, a daisy cutter, and Retre only had to watch with his foot to get him past Eugene Galekovic.
The advance of City, as opposed to the Sydney game, consisted mainly of straight-line races. Bruno Fornaroli, Vidosic, then McGree, all rushing into the midfield with urgency. Only McGree's players made significant progress in a shooting position, and even then the ball was diverted and deflected into Andrew Redmayne's hands.
How is Sydney FC coming this year? (Photo by Mark Kolbe / Getty Images)
These breakaways were only possible when City managed to break through the formidable central line of Sydney, the second group in the 4-4-2 offside formation. Adam Le Fondre and Alex Brosque lobbied, but the real bulwark – which only those dashing City dribblers could break through on occasion – was the line formed by Retre, Brandon O'Neill, Josh Brillante and Milos Ninkovic.
Retre's defensive efforts have been noticed and Ninkovic's pace of work has been a big part of what makes him the best striker in the league in the last two seasons overall. Here, they only add to this reputation, integrating into a breaking line, closing the channels when their team is without possession. Invariably, when City could handle the overruns, they were forced to do so by the flanks. Hero-ball dribbling in the cul-de-sacs was also common.
City finished well in the first half, and the fact that his offensive game is largely based on the wings is not so bad considering the position of their marquee, Ritchie de Laet. His deliveries were not always correct, but they almost always had a delicious bad.
City began the second period much more brilliantly, with Kearyn Baccus shooting from a distance, then Vidosic terribly unlucky not to score with a diving head that hit Redmayne on the chest. On either side of the goalkeeper he would have been 1-1.
Sydney, however, withstood more powerful swells thanks to better teams reinvigorated after a break at half-time and finally took the reins of the match.
Retre played an excellent game, making remarkable appearances, a player more central in offensive play than he has been this season. It's Retre who scored the second goal in Sydney, a superb slaloming sequence on the right.
Initiated by Ninkovic, the real exchange took place between the excellent Grant and The Melt, but when Grant threw a sharp square ball on Retre, he had to stab a perfectly balanced ball to The Melt, leaning back and with only half a second prepare.
He did it with confidence, and The Melt collapsed on Galekovic. It was a sumptuous goal.
Ninkovic's versatility shows how successful Sydney FC's multi-faceted approach has been. (AAP Image / Brendan Esposito)
Retre was replaced immediately after by, for De Silva, the standard change made by Corica and an indication of her current state in these scripted sub-scripts, given the quality of the game that Retre had. Charles Lokoli Ngoy was also hired for Brosque later, around the time he still does.
Luke Brattan and Baccus were kicked out of the midfield by Sydney's central unit. This meant that the badists that came to the attack were either long, floating balls – which only connected from time to time – a vertical thrust of the ground in marked men who, with the exception of Fornaroli, City badailants were struggling to control and use. Both Brattan and Baccus were brought 15 minutes from the end, showing how much they were eclipsed by their sky-blue counterparts.
Schenkeveld emphasized his exposed thighs, entering the midfield to try to show some initiative, but his pbades were also broken. City kept the ball now and finished with a possession of nearly 60%, but almost all was bland.
Joyce's bench is quite short, especially in attack. Anthony Caceres arrived, and Wales was sitting there too, but in reality, for a club of City's financial capacity, he should be able to provide this team with more top-notch offensive talent.
For a team as defensive as City are under Joyce, they must have an attack power almost by default, otherwise they may lose ground in games like this, or the match last weekend when they do not could not grab late points with the Mariners only. barely hold.
The match was doomed to its inevitable conclusion and Le Fondre added another goal before the end, after a good job from De Silva, Lokoli Ngoy and Ninkovic. Fondre now has four goals in his first three League A games
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It is worth remembering the continuity of this Sydney team and how this continuity contributes to the progression in the matches. Sydney has won so many games in the last two seasons and has experienced almost all types of counter-plans. Even the tendrils of fatigue can not easily annoy them, and they were clinically sneering here. For City, a really pale home opener does not bode well for the vitality of this season.
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