The eagerly anticipated Sydney derby finished with the Sky Blues deafeating the Wanderers 2-1 at a pulsating Pirtek Stadium.
The game started off in Western Sydney’s favour, with the home side dominating every area apart from the score line.
After 20 minutes, the Wanderers had 74% of the possession. A number of chances were squandered by Dario Vidosic and Romeo Castelen to open the scoring early.
A typical football moment occurred when Sydney FC took the lead after 22 minutes courtesy of Jacques Faty. A ball delivered from a corner found Seb Ryall who nodded it back to Faty to make it 1-0. No-one would have seen Sydney leading after the opening half hour.
Despite Sydney hitting the front they still showed little stability in keeping the ball, however, they managed to weather the storm and enter half time with their lead in tact.
Western Sydney continued to control the ball in the second half and looked the more likely to score. Eight minutes into the second half Castelen nearly found the equaliser with his shot going over the bar.
Mintues later Vidosic would find the equaliser after Castelen teed up the Wanderers’ marquee who placed it beautifully in the top right hand corner.
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Western Sydney seem like they would surge to win with their dominance, Golgol Mebrahtu looked to be in a scoring mood along with Castelen and Mark Bridge.
In the last minute football proved you do not need to dominate a game to win as Shane Smeltz smashed the ball back into the back of the net. Milos Dimitrijevic free kick fell to Matt Jurman whose header found Sydney’s number nine.
Western Sydney had only the scraps of injury time to try and recover a result, it finished 2-1 at Pirtek leaving majority of the fans going home angry.
Western Sydney deserved more for their effort
Western Sydney killed their cross-town rivals in controlling the ball. Castelen looked consistently dangerous and was involved in Vidosic’s goal. Western Sydney finished with 64% of the possession in their favour and put a staggering 37 balls into Sydney’s box as opposed the 14 placed into the Wanderers end all game.
Sydney FC remain unconvincing with keeping the ball
The Sky Blues were lucky and have weathered the storm for now. For many parts of this season, Sydney have struggled to attack and keep possession and it showed again tonight. In their last three games Sydney have looked better but tonight’s game was not a true reflection of hard work if you did not watch it.
No teams are invincible in the A-League
Western Sydney do not look to be unbeatable at Pirtek after all. The greatest aspect about season 2015-16 is how unpredictable every game is, nearly every game can be a danger game for one side or the other. It adds a sense of palpable excitement to all games because every encounter is a reasonable match up.
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