Player: Ante Covic, Newcastle - rose to the occasion in a crucial derby contest, made even more interesting with Danny Vukovic - probably Covic's major future contender for the number one home-based national team jersey - patrolling the opposite nets
U-20 Player: Kristian Sarkies, Melbourne - finally proves he can score from dead ball situations; surely bound for a spark-plug role off the bench during the finals
Coach: Ricky Herbert, New Zealand - two wins on the trot, this one away to Sydney, with the team looking more like a cohesive football than ever before
Match: Newcastle United Jets vs Central Coast Mariners
Goal: Kristian Sarkies, Melbourne
4-4-2 Team of the Week:
Lelei Gao - Damian Mori
Jason Spagnuolo - Kristian Sarkies - Jonas Salley - Reinaldo
Andrew Packer - Josh McCloughan - Che Bunce - Matt Thompson
Ante Covic
Subs: Clint Bolton, Andrew Durante, Mile Jedinak,
4 comments:
I'm interested and pleased that you included Reinaldo in your team. I was once guilty of sledging him myself, but have warmed to the view of Jecce and John, that he is the Roar's most mistakenly underused player. Bloody hope Franky uses him against Melbourne for the full 90.
I agree with Mori on the bench. I think he could be more effective coming on against trieing defenders. Interesting that Frank praised Mori but not Reinaldo.
Worth noting that 3 or 4 great stars of the NSL are about to bow-out of the A-League - Bobby D from Perth, Carl V of Adelaide, Sasho P leading goal scoring for Sydney even if from the bench (going to div 2 in Japan) possible with Bolton and a few others) and by some accounts Damian M most recently of Qld.
A bit confused here. You have Mori as both a striker and on the bench?
Thanks for pointing that out!
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