Match Thread - Melbourne Victory (AUS) vs. Shanghai SIPG (CHN)

hyp-R · 2016-02-24T08:27:39.000Z

**Melbourne Victory (AUS) vs. Shanghai SIPG (CHN)** [](#icon-info) **Competition: ACL** [](#icon-clock) **Kick Off**: 7:45pm GMT+10 [](#icon-info) **Venue**: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne [](#icon-notes) **Referee**: Abdul Rahman Al-Jassim (Qatar) [](#icon-info) **Attendance**: TBA **Line Ups**: [click here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cb9sTQ4W4AEdXMi.jpg:large) **Melbourne Victory**: Ingham, Berisha, Barbarouses - Bozanic, Thompson, Broxham - Georgievski, Delpierre, Ansell, Geria - Vukovic (Subs: Thomas, Pain, Mahazi, Murnane, Howard, Makarounas, Deng) **Shanghai SIPG**: Asamoah Gyan, Wu Lei, Elkeson De Oliveira Caridoso, Yu Hai - Dario Leonardo Conca, Cai Hujikang - Wang Chenchao, Kim Ju Young, Fu Huan, Shi Ke - Yan Junling (Subs: Zhang Wei, Wang Jiajie, Lu Wenjun, Lin Chuangyi, Sun Le, Hu Jinghang, He Guan) -------------------------------------------------------------- **Pre Match Commentary** * Peacock predicting a win for Victory tonight. Interesting. * Top 10 players in China right now (Texeira $75m, Martinez $62.5m, Ramires $42m, Gervinho $27m, Guarin $20m, Zhang Lu $15m, Sun Ke $14m, Gil $13m, Agusto $12m, Lavezzi $undisclosed) - crazy figures compared to Australia. **Talking point: Scrap the salary cap?** * Stand by Me - what's everyone thoughts? * Ingham getting a start - thoughts? -------------------------------------------------------------- **Match Commentary** * Flags have been dished out. Broxy looking up for it. * 01:00 - Vuka so close to giving them a goal from a kick out. Toying with them, he says. * 01:30 - Ingham taking a shot from no-mans land. Straight into a player. * 03:00 - Victory pressing very hard, not letting them sit on the ball. Berisha showing that he's easily the most active forward in the league. * 05:00 - Barba down the right hand side gets a great ball across but no one is waiting by the far post. Shanghai left looking clueless. Confident so far from Victory. * 07:00 - Victory with all the same hair cut have caused Ingham to get a yellow card when it was Berisha. **(Talking point: Do you need a certain hair cut to play for Victory?)** * 08:00 - Shanghai with a free kick that is awfully close, takes a deflection going just wide. Results in a corner. * 11:00 - Elkeson finds a rocket in his pocket and attaches it to the ball. Great shot, but goes wide. Possibly a touch from Vuka. * 12:00 - **YELLOW CARD** - Shanghai, I missed the name. Halp! * 15:00 - 59% - 41%: Victory leading possession * 19:00 - Starting to quiet down now, Shanghai found their feet. Will be interesting to see the next possession stat. * 26:00 - From one end to another. Victory has a good run forward, poor pass leads to a turn over - Shanghai run back down and Vuka clears. * 28:00 - POTENTIAL PENALTY CALL - Shanghai player goes down inside the box, asking for a foul/penalty. Ref whistles to play on. * 29:00 - **CHANCE:** Bozanic with a clutch block on Elkeson. Shanghai get the ball oh-so-close to the box but Vuka is there showing up like a brick shit house to keep the ball out. Game on, they say. * 30:00 - **GOAL!!!!!!!!**: Jai Fucking INGHAM scores the opener. Victory leading the way, 1-0. * 40:00 - Had a moment where I started watching more instead of posting. Whoops. Shanghai looking tired, Archie looking tired. **(Talking point: You're the manager, what subs do you make?)** * 42:00 - Vuka makes an incredible save. Rebound goes out, another clearance off the line. Shanghai prods and gets another shot off and Vuka makes another save. * 45:00 - Half time can not come soon enough. Both sides looking tired, but Shanghai having the better chances. -------------------------------------------------------------- **Half-Time Commentary** * Shanghai with better passing into the box but unable to do anything with it. Victory having a few good counter-attacks which is the different right now, with Ingham putting away the leading goal. * **MY OPINION** - Victory have tried to drop deeper to invite pressure on in a few games in the A-League this season, and it hasn't always worked out for us. We've had some really solid defensive displays but once we invite pressure on we never seem to get back on a level playing field. We should continue to use our width and our pace. When we play out from the back after their forwards have committed we have a lot of space in the midfield to use (as they don't track back) - Bozanic can unlock the chance as he has done, and we can get another goal. -------------------------------------------------------------- **Second Half Commentary** * 45:00 - WE'RE BACK. Victory starts off strong, still trying to exploit the pace of Ingham on the left. No luck yet. Barba has a shot but hits row Z. * 52:00 - **GOAL** MVFC 1 - 1 - SHANGHAI - Felt like it was only going to be a matter of time, but Elkeson puts in a great cross and we should be doing much better defensively. * 62:00 - Controversy. Multiple balls on the field, bottles on the field. Ref losing control

Melbourne Victory (AUS) vs. Shanghai SIPG (CHN)

Competition: ACL

Kick Off: 7:45pm GMT+10

Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne

Referee: Abdul Rahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)

Attendance: TBA

Line Ups: click here

Melbourne Victory: Ingham, Berisha, Barbarouses - Bozanic, Thompson, Broxham - Georgievski, Delpierre, Ansell, Geria - Vukovic (Subs: Thomas, Pain, Mahazi, Murnane, Howard, Makarounas, Deng)

Shanghai SIPG: Asamoah Gyan, Wu Lei, Elkeson De Oliveira Caridoso, Yu Hai - Dario Leonardo Conca, Cai Hujikang - Wang Chenchao, Kim Ju Young, Fu Huan, Shi Ke - Yan Junling (Subs: Zhang Wei, Wang Jiajie, Lu Wenjun, Lin Chuangyi, Sun Le, Hu Jinghang, He Guan)

Pre Match Commentary

Peacock predicting a win for Victory tonight. Interesting.
Top 10 players in China right now (Texeira $75m, Martinez $62.5m, Ramires $42m, Gervinho $27m, Guarin $20m, Zhang Lu $15m, Sun Ke $14m, Gil $13m, Agusto $12m, Lavezzi $undisclosed) - crazy figures compared to Australia. Talking point: Scrap the salary cap?
Stand by Me - what's everyone thoughts?
Ingham getting a start - thoughts?

Match Commentary

Flags have been dished out. Broxy looking up for it.
01:00 - Vuka so close to giving them a goal from a kick out. Toying with them, he says.
01:30 - Ingham taking a shot from no-mans land. Straight into a player.
03:00 - Victory pressing very hard, not letting them sit on the ball. Berisha showing that he's easily the most active forward in the league.
05:00 - Barba down the right hand side gets a great ball across but no one is waiting by the far post. Shanghai left looking clueless. Confident so far from Victory.
07:00 - Victory with all the same hair cut have caused Ingham to get a yellow card when it was Berisha. (Talking point: Do you need a certain hair cut to play for Victory?)
08:00 - Shanghai with a free kick that is awfully close, takes a deflection going just wide. Results in a corner.
11:00 - Elkeson finds a rocket in his pocket and attaches it to the ball. Great shot, but goes wide. Possibly a touch from Vuka.
12:00 - YELLOW CARD - Shanghai, I missed the name. Halp!
15:00 - 59% - 41%: Victory leading possession
19:00 - Starting to quiet down now, Shanghai found their feet. Will be interesting to see the next possession stat.
26:00 - From one end to another. Victory has a good run forward, poor pass leads to a turn over - Shanghai run back down and Vuka clears.
28:00 - POTENTIAL PENALTY CALL - Shanghai player goes down inside the box, asking for a foul/penalty. Ref whistles to play on.
29:00 - CHANCE: Bozanic with a clutch block on Elkeson. Shanghai get the ball oh-so-close to the box but Vuka is there showing up like a brick shit house to keep the ball out. Game on, they say.
30:00 - GOAL!!!!!!!!: Jai Fucking INGHAM scores the opener. Victory leading the way, 1-0.
40:00 - Had a moment where I started watching more instead of posting. Whoops. Shanghai looking tired, Archie looking tired. (Talking point: You're the manager, what subs do you make?)
42:00 - Vuka makes an incredible save. Rebound goes out, another clearance off the line. Shanghai prods and gets another shot off and Vuka makes another save.
45:00 - Half time can not come soon enough. Both sides looking tired, but Shanghai having the better chances.

Half-Time Commentary

Shanghai with better passing into the box but unable to do anything with it. Victory having a few good counter-attacks which is the different right now, with Ingham putting away the leading goal.
MY OPINION - Victory have tried to drop deeper to invite pressure on in a few games in the A-League this season, and it hasn't always worked out for us. We've had some really solid defensive displays but once we invite pressure on we never seem to get back on a level playing field. We should continue to use our width and our pace. When we play out from the back after their forwards have committed we have a lot of space in the midfield to use (as they don't track back) - Bozanic can unlock the chance as he has done, and we can get another goal.

Second Half Commentary

45:00 - WE'RE BACK. Victory starts off strong, still trying to exploit the pace of Ingham on the left. No luck yet. Barba has a shot but hits row Z.
52:00 - GOAL MVFC 1 - 1 - SHANGHAI - Felt like it was only going to be a matter of time, but Elkeson puts in a great cross and we should be doing much better defensively.
62:00 - Controversy. Multiple balls on the field, bottles on the field. Ref losing control of the game? It's definitely heating up.
65:00 - Victory under extended pressure, and definitely in need of a break here. As I said, once we're under extended pressure we just lose our game plan and we end up conceding. Muscat, lets see some magic.
68:00 - Conca tries a long range shot but Vuka all over it. Talks about whether Muscat should be using subs, I think he should. (Talking Point: Who do you sub? Why?)
70:00 - PENALTY - Victory have a chance to steal the game back here. Barbarouses using turbo jets to launch ahead, and gets clipped possibly just inside. Debate over inside or outside, but let's get this fucking show on the road.
72:00 - GOAL!!!!!!!!!!! - Berisha smashes it to the left, goalie dives with him. Too fucking cool from the Albanian and it's MVFC 2 - 1 SHANGHAI.
79:00 - I missed a few moments because I went and took a piss. Unlucky for Berisha not to score, and unlucky for Shanghai not to score, too. This game is about to get HEAVY
81:00 - Delpierre just looking solid at the back. Nothing getting in without his say so.
83:00 - Vuka comes out charging and manages to block that ball for an attempted near-post shot. Results in a corner for Shanghai and Vuka comes and punches it like Connor McGregor hitting Aldo.
85:00 - Elkeson and Wu Le so so close to getting something into the back of the Victory net, but luckily nothing eventuates (for us). Quick counter-attack down the left hand side using the pace of Pain but he gets chopped down just after half-way resulting in a free kick.
87:00 - Wu Le breaks off like Speedy Gonzales but Geria manages to make a fucking clutch tackle.
88:00 - Barba with a great break away and Pain has a shot nearly free on goal but hits the fucking post. Questions will be asked about whether or not he will play over Ingham any more, I can see it now.
88:40 - Play back down the other end now, Conca hits the fucking post and the commentators are going mental.
90:00 - Makarouns ON, Thompson OFF - 3 minutes of stoppage time left.

Extra-Time Commentary - 3MINS

90+1 - Are we going to see much more from the Victory? Pace is the only thing they have left on the wings right now.
90+2 - Berisha OFF - Howard ON: Muscat looking like he's having an epileptic fit trying to tell Berisha to come off slowly.
90+3 - Shanghai get a free kick in a good spot, nothing eventuates but Victory gets the win

Final Score - Melbourne Victory 2 - 1 Shanghai SIPG

Posted Feb 24, 2016, 8:27 AM UTC · edited

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