David Harding
Chris Leahy
Cain LynchHow do you solve a problem like Melbourne Victory?
The Victory may have themselves a new manager in Jim Magilton, but today showed that the story remains the same. The Melbourne Victory went ahead just before half against the Skyblues, but like they have done most of this season they failed to hold onto it.
It's a worrying pattern, the Victory's season is on life support, and they couldn't afford to again drop points, but they have. So where to for the Melbourne Victory? They have replaced the manager, but the same old problem remains.
Magilton has slammed his players for being naive, the Victory welcomed Mark Milligan into the side today, and they looked pretty worried throughout the game. Sydney FC had looked as if they deserved to be in front early, but the Victory turned it around with both Cernak and Fabio scoring their first goals for the side.
Fabio's goal was a bit of magic, he was close to the line and snuck the ball back into a tight spot into the back of the net. It's not as if the Melbourne Victory's attack is that bad, they were making chances and were getting close to scoring.
It's just, when it comes to the back half, the Victory are just shocking, what is the fix for the Victory? Whatever they are doing is clearly no longer working. Or is the Melbourne Victory problem more widespread than we think?
Kewell and Thompson are starting to find a partnership, Cernak is off the mark, so maybe he will find his feet now, but how do you solve a problem like the Melbourne Victory?
Two managers have departed, and it seems that there are still issues that are getting in the way of the Victory's progress. Ante Covic has been good in goals, sometimes he has his lapses, Lawrence Thomas the young Victory keeper has had 2 good games early in his career.
The Victory have the talent there, they have to find their feet and get their acts together, right now Magilton is only there until seasons end. It's time to shake things up for the Victory, treat this as a start for next year, it seems their race is pretty much done.
So let's put the players on notice, Kenny has done it at Liverpool, he's slapped his players with a shape up or shit out warning. It's almost time that the Melbourne Victory, and their manager figure out who will be there next season, and who won't.
It would seem that Ricardinho whose salary is apparently taking up a fair chunk of the Victory's salary cap might be gone once his contract expires in April. Tando Velaphi may find a new home, again, he has had injury trouble, and I believe that Covic and Thomas are more than adequate to be the keepers.
Thoams might be young still, but I've more trust for him than I do for Tando, a better more experienced keeper than Tando could be a thing that Victory needs. This transfer window the Victory have got Milligan and Davies in, but really need to solve some other issues.
It's time to find another solution, the chance of playing finals is slowly slipping away, so might as well try and change things up now. Can the Victory turn it around? We shall see.
Every week it's looking increaingly likely that we're looking at a Victory season that's sinking, and the Victory should turn towards 2012-13.
It's a worrying pattern, the Victory's season is on life support, and they couldn't afford to again drop points, but they have. So where to for the Melbourne Victory? They have replaced the manager, but the same old problem remains.
Magilton has slammed his players for being naive, the Victory welcomed Mark Milligan into the side today, and they looked pretty worried throughout the game. Sydney FC had looked as if they deserved to be in front early, but the Victory turned it around with both Cernak and Fabio scoring their first goals for the side.
Fabio's goal was a bit of magic, he was close to the line and snuck the ball back into a tight spot into the back of the net. It's not as if the Melbourne Victory's attack is that bad, they were making chances and were getting close to scoring.
It's just, when it comes to the back half, the Victory are just shocking, what is the fix for the Victory? Whatever they are doing is clearly no longer working. Or is the Melbourne Victory problem more widespread than we think?
Kewell and Thompson are starting to find a partnership, Cernak is off the mark, so maybe he will find his feet now, but how do you solve a problem like the Melbourne Victory?
Two managers have departed, and it seems that there are still issues that are getting in the way of the Victory's progress. Ante Covic has been good in goals, sometimes he has his lapses, Lawrence Thomas the young Victory keeper has had 2 good games early in his career.
The Victory have the talent there, they have to find their feet and get their acts together, right now Magilton is only there until seasons end. It's time to shake things up for the Victory, treat this as a start for next year, it seems their race is pretty much done.
So let's put the players on notice, Kenny has done it at Liverpool, he's slapped his players with a shape up or shit out warning. It's almost time that the Melbourne Victory, and their manager figure out who will be there next season, and who won't.
It would seem that Ricardinho whose salary is apparently taking up a fair chunk of the Victory's salary cap might be gone once his contract expires in April. Tando Velaphi may find a new home, again, he has had injury trouble, and I believe that Covic and Thomas are more than adequate to be the keepers.
Thoams might be young still, but I've more trust for him than I do for Tando, a better more experienced keeper than Tando could be a thing that Victory needs. This transfer window the Victory have got Milligan and Davies in, but really need to solve some other issues.
It's time to find another solution, the chance of playing finals is slowly slipping away, so might as well try and change things up now. Can the Victory turn it around? We shall see.
Every week it's looking increaingly likely that we're looking at a Victory season that's sinking, and the Victory should turn towards 2012-13.
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