Sydney 0 - Melbourne 0
On a night where the wind cut through the crowd like a shining scimitar through so many soldiers, last night's affair was cold and clumsy. For Sydney's efforts they were denied by the woodwork twice and Melbourne were beaten by an invisible forcefield, which surrounded the goal - put it this way, it certainly was not Sydney's skill that kept them at bay for 90 minutes.
Payne and Cole made their debuts last night and two more players on the bench also made their first start in the 15. Bridge was still away in China after the Olyroos campaign and the "marquee" player John Aloisi remains injured. So with a depleted squad, Sydney were up against it. Or were they...
This game was played in the air, with more chips than you get with a piece of fish. Melbourne captain Kevin Muscat looked like a thug, and pretty well much cancelled both Corica and Payne up front.
At the other end, baldy-man Net Fabiano really only had Bolton to bet most of the time and he failed in that.
The newspapers described this as "entertaining" but me thinks that has more to do with the fact that they were watching froma little cosy press box. Down in the stands we must have missed that bit. Bore-draw? Not really, but not exactly the catfight we should have sen either.
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