A ten men Melbourne Victory held on for a 1-1 draw with Melbourne City after an early penalty was cancelled out

Tarek Elrich scored a dramatic 95th minute equaliser as the Wanderers finished their final game at Spotless Stadium with a draw.

A late wasted chance for the Jets meant the points were shared at the McDonald Jones stadium.

Adam Le Fondre’s emphatic penalty and some last ditch defending was enough to give Sydney FC victory over Wellington Phoenix.

Alex Lopez netted twice for Brisbane as Central Coast Mariners have two men sent off as Roar run out 5-3 winners in Gosford.
“The deeper they drop, the less space there is,” Warren Joyce said, on the complexion of Melbourne City’s 1-1 draw with Melbourne Victory on Saturday.
“We talked about playing quicker, and the penalty comes from slotting the ball down the side for Jamie Maclaren.
“The deeper they get … you know, they’ve got big defenders, so it doesn’t really matter.”
Football is not about tactics specifically, but the human emotion and interpretation of the game that shapes them, both in the moment and in preparation….

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Alen Stajcic has described the personal and professional impact of the saga over his dismissal as Matildas head coach.

Speaking to the media for the first time since being axed as Matildas head coach, Stajcic says he remains in the dark about the reasons for his dismissal.
Search for a recently vacant position on the Football Federation Australia website, and you will come across a 404 message.
As far as visual metaphors go for Australian football, an error message relating to destination on the governing body’s official website is almost perfect, even by Australian football’s standards.
Yet, that page for that recently vacant position was not the one filled by Ante Milicic with the the Matildas this week. Rather it’s that of the national technical director, one of…

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Australia exited the Asian Cup at the quarter-final stage at the hands of the UAE.

Graham Arnold says Australia faces being overtaken by other Asian nations with better-funded football programs.

Mat Ryan saved two spot kicks in a penalty shootout against Uzbekistan in the Asian Cup round of 16, after the game finished 0-0.

It was almost, while recognising how much of a meme the word has become in Australian football: expected.

There was a pervasive sense of inevitability in Australia’s 1-0 loss to the United Arab Emirates on Friday, knocking them out of the Asian Cup. Absent was the fabled “Science of Belief,” but in its place stood logic. Ten minutes of injury time could have been 30, and the Socceroos still would have struggled to find an equaliser.

When the agony of defeat is felt in a major international tournament,…

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Mat Ryan saved two spot kicks in a penalty shootout against Uzbekistan in the Asian Cup round of 16, after the game finished 0-0.

Mark Milligan says the Socceroos will thrive playing in front of a large crowd against the host nation.
“Sometimes it’s not so much having the technique,” Robbie Kruse said following Australia’s victory over Uzbekistan in the Asian Cup round of 16 on Monday.
“It’s more so about having the balls to do it, having the confidence to do it.”
The topic in the mixed zone was his own penalty in the dramatic shootout win for the Socceroos, but zooming out, Kruse could just as well have been talking about his own game.
Or his true impact on the team. Or the wider Australian football public’s misinterpretation…

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