Wanderers join Brisbane on top of A-League table with win over Jets
Western Sydney joined Brisbane authorized canada goose outlet at the top of the A-League table but missed a golden opportunity to bump up their goal difference in a 1-0 win over Newcastle at Hunter Stadium on Sunday. The Wanderers won the round 23 match through a 17th-minute goal to Jaushua Sotirio in a game they dominated for large periods.
The victory lifted the Wanderers to 41 points alongside Brisbane, who authentic canada goose outlet online hold a one-goal advantage, for and against. Eighth-placed Newcastle finished strongly and went close to an equaliser when captain Nigel Boogaard hit the crossbar with a header off a Leonardo free kick in the 81st minute. Jets goalkeeper Mark Birighitti added to the drama when his shot, the last kick of the game, was blocked, but the Wanderers had the lion’s share of chances.
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In the first half, Wanderers threatened twice with headers from Nikolai Topor-Stanley before Sotirio converted the visitors’ early pressure. Sotirio best canada goose jacket review was rewarded for his late run to the far post when Mark Bridge’s cut-back left him one-on-one with Birighitti, and he buried his shot. Sotirio went close to a double in the 21st minute but his strike was knocked wide.
Bridge had a shot blocked in the 25th minute can you wash a canada buying a canada goose jacket online goose jacket in the washer and Romeo Castelen was wide with a one-on-one chance in the 31st for buy canada goose coat online the Wanderers. The Jets rarely threatened and only twice had shots on target, both times firing straight at goalkeeper Liam Reddy. Wanderers threatened time and time again without scoring in the second half, although the Jets were better.
Birighitti made fingertip saves off strikes from Scott Neville and Andreu in the 51st and 52nd minutes, while Bridge turned and shot over the crossbar in the 57th. For the Jets, Milos Trifunovic hit the side-netting in the 48th minute, while Mateo Poljak (59th) and Leonardo (66th) forced Reddy into low saves before the late threats from Boogaard and Birighitti. The loss was a huge blow to the fading finals hopes of Newcastle, who are seven points off the top six with four rounds remaining.
Western Sydney coach Tony Popovic was focused solely on the three points gained and not the chances spurned. When asked if his team made the win best place to buy a canada goose jacket harder than it needed to be click, Popovic said: “Maybe in the end it was, but that’s football. It gives you challenges and today at the end of the game the challenge for us was to show real resilience and desperation in our defending, and overall it would be hard to begrudge us a victory today.”
Popovic best ideas about canada goose outlet online on pinterest was not concerned with the missed chances that would have put them ahead of Brisbane on goal difference. “A win away from home 1-0, and our first clean sheet in a while, we’d have taken that before the game,” he said. “Yes, what was missing was the finishing touch, but with the players we have, if we keep creating those opportunities, it will fall.”
The loss was a blow to the fading finals hopes of Newcastle, who are seven points off the top six. Jets coach Scott Miller, though, was pleased with his side’s second-half improvement and said they remained focused on making the play-offs. “We were far too passive in the first half,” Miller said. buy canada goose jacket london “We were very respectful of the opposition, which is granted, but overall I wanted a lot more in terms of intensity getting out to the ball and posing more of a threat.”