R4 vs Melbourne City | Sun 3rd Nov | 6:00pm | SS7

I have a feeling Payne will be found out at CM but interested to see how he would go. I'd like McGing to start but can't see Ufuk dropping DeVere. Just hope there'll be a couple changes to the 11 we've started with the first 3 games

Gotta go for 3 points here. There's no reason why not. Its 4 games into the season, pretty much most of our players are looking good imo. What I wana see is some fire in the belly, be more aggressive in defense and take it to them up front.

3:1 NIX

I didn't think we were as good as in the 2nd game, so hopefully being away from home will bring out our best showing this weekend. 

Agree. Was Men v Boys in that first half, for sure; think they dominated more than Syd did even.

I just think Perth are a better team than Sydney right now.

ftfy

This thread is hilarious. EOM.

No way Rufer is getting dropped.

Sunday, 3 November 2019
AAMI Park, Melbourne
Kick-Off: 4:00pm (Local) (4:00pm (AEDT))
Referee: Ben Abraham
Assistant Referee 1: Wilson Brown
Assistant Referee 2: Andrew Meimarakis
Fourth Official: Adam Bavcar
VAR: Craig Zetter

Melbourne City FC squad: 1.Tom GLOVER (gk), 2.Scott GALLOWAY, 3.Scott JAMIESON (c), 6.Josh BRILLANTE, 7.Rostyn GRIFFITHS, 8.Javier CABRERA, 11.Craig NOONE, 13.Nathniel ATKINSON, 17.Denis GENREAU, 19.Lachlan WALES, 20.Adrian LUNA, 21.Ramy NAJJARINE, 22.Curtis GOOD, 23.Dean BOUZANIS (gk), 30.Moudi NAJJAR, 34.Connor METCALFE, 35.Raphael BORGES RODRIGUES, 36.Kerrin STOKES, 40.Richard WINDBICHLER, 49.Stefan COLAKOVSKI
**2-4 to be omitted**

Wellington Phoenix squad: 1.Stefan MARINOVIC (gk), 2.Liam McGING, 3.Luke DEVERE, 4.Te Atawhai HUDSON-WIHONGI, 5.Matti STEINMANN, 6.Tim PAYNE, 7.Reno PISCOPO, 8.Cameron DEVLIN, 9.David BALL, 10.Ulises DAVILA, 11.Jaushua SOTIRIO, 14.Alex RUFER, 16.Louis FENTON, 17.Callan ELLIOT, 20.Oliver SAIL (gk), 21.Callum McCOWATT, 23.Walter SCOTT, 27.Steven TAYLOR (c), 31.Ben WAINE, 88. Gary HOOPER
**2-4 to be omitted**

Is Ben Abraham a very experienced referee at this level? Never heard of him

Not really - from this article:

Couldn't find any stats on his so it may well be his first game at this level.

I'm sure that will go great. I love how we're always given the trainees.

Its ok, he'll have VAR supervising him...

Yes 100%! McCowatt will be better than Sotirio

first season on a league along with Kate Jacewicz first female referee.

Let's be honest with ourselves, Phoenix are promising, but will fail to deliver this season. If they somehow manage top six, then I'm completely wrong. Hopefully there's a lot more improvement in this match such as goals and clean sheet.

Still very early days mate, plenty of time to turn this around. We've looked bloody good against some of the best teams in the league. If we stop leaking soft goals and our strike force starts firing we can still make the six.
At the very least at some point we are going to destroy some poor team like we did CCM last season.

I am sure they have marked that one in their diary to remember when they play us this season.

Will forever remember that day. Got married :D Very enjoyable highlights!

Midfield and fullback cover looking the worries at this stage. And possibly Devere < Durante?

Attack is strong and must do better. Not enough goals from our chances so far.

'bloody good' is an optimistic take; but we've looked OK at times, usually when already going a goal behind.

Biggest concern has been our leaky defence. Not going to get anywhere with that.

Perth are being "given" him as well.

So who will be marking Lachlan Wales?

More injury concerns at Melbourne City. This time Richard Windbichler 

https://twitter.com/AleagueHub/status/1190121492232564737

Don't wanna get ahead of myself but with Maclaren, Delbridge and now Windbichler out I think we are favourites to win this 

Looking forward to this game. Hard day of moving house will be rewarded with a nix win ?

think Uffie should be saying something along the lines of wanting to see proper protection for dribbling players like Ball, why it's difficult to attract quality technical players to the league etc.

And lets get a win!

COYN

fixed

...did anyone else scroll down and read that guys name as windbitcher?

I put $5 on us for the win, if we score first then I will cash out early just in case. COYN!

Just remember too, they lost a cup final last week. Their heads might not be in the right place. Who knows. I'm picking City for the win with VAR yet again stiffing us.

Terrible weather in Melbourne at the moment - tomorrow will be 21, humid and raining ; not quite as bad as today at least! (currently thunderstorms, heavy rain - may make it tough to train) 

so the rents have cancelled the sky subscription, is there any other way of watching nix away games?

If you have access to a Vpn. Set it to India Japan or somewhere check the my football YouTube page and it may be streaming

After seeing Weatern beat Victory I must say they have everything we don't. 

This game against City will reveal who we are imo. Its 4 games into the season, the team's had enough time together now. City is missing their best player. If we lose this one we're in deep deep trouble and will most definitely not finish in the top 6.

On the other hand, a good performance and there is some hope.

Download Opera and enable their inbuilt VPN's to watch the official YouTube streams of the games.

COYN 

#needsmorelasereyes

C'mon you Nixxxxxx

Sorry way to early for this type of call even should we lose we will at worse be only 6 points  from the six. That can be easily made up and if they keep showing some of the promise in attack then it is possible. Important that Taylor gets the defence to stop giving away soft goals.Amazes me the number of people quick to write them off,given where we have come from the only way is up.