Anyone watching?

Best team in A-League history ladies and gentlemen.

Kashima player nearly got through a 4 on 1 there

This is it, time for the Matt Simon show ....

They're clearly going to win the Champions League.

Clearly.

Honestly I thought Sydney were going to do well in the ACL, not a chance to win it but I was confident they'd have a good tournament but it's been the complete opposite. 

Rotation of players and more consistent refeering got them IMO.

In other words Sydney FC are a well oiled machine suited perfectly to HAL conditions, ie. referees not picking up rotational fouling, and small 'workloads' (one game a week) allowing for the team to have older players.  Once those conditions change, Sydney dont work as well

I genuinely didn't understand the predictions of them to do so well and how they had the team to go deep in the tournament. All the signs of this sort of performance were there leading in.

Slater no happy 

Looks like a somewhat weakened Kashima side, including the second goalkeeper. Actually I think this is their first keeper.

 Yeh I had it all wrong. I actually put money on Newcastle Jets before the season to come first because I thought Sydney would die off in the A-league once the ACL started to focus more on that. I was way off. Although was close with Newcastle 😎

Arnie trying to play mind games prior to the acl has backfired on him. East Asian teams will rip aleague teams apart. Most  of the time 

If the smurfs are losing Slater will never be happy.

I still lol when mv were losing he was so biased amd yet we drew and he was oh Sydney this and this 

Let’s see if Arnie just gave up on the ACL or are there serious injuries.
With concerns over Ninkovic, Bobo and Zullo as possibly Carney, the question will be answered when the Smurfs play the Roar next weekend.

Matt Simon is just not very good at football.

The wizard of Woy Woy strikes !!

Has it been 2 years since Simon scored ?? 

The sky is falling!

He seriously needs to be dropped. 

Josh Brillante is the worst player in the world when forced to play under any sort of pressure.

How has this charlatan managed to con those at Fiorentina, Sydney FC and now the Socceroos into believing he is a professional footballer of any sort?

Simon scored in the FFA cup this season.null

does that mean they are out?

Missing their top 3 or 4 players SFC barely has a team. Have no bench depth whatsoever,

Why not get an Asian player if your youth players are not any good?

arrogance maybe?

Arnie made the mistake leaving out the Dutchman. Since then he has been named as next Socceroos manager. I guess you can ask the question is he now trying to tank the ACL? Maybe.

Arnie doesnt win if SFC go through to the next stage but dont win the GF. He wont be there in the post r16 ACL. If SFC did go on to win the new manager would get the praise. Everything he does is strategic so, he will focus on the league and GF. If SFC can scrap through to the next round its just a bonus. 

I think every club should get in line with AFC rules and use the 3+1 rule so there isn't a repeat of having to cut one import.
With Bobo, Ninkovic, Meirzejewski, and Buijs which ever way you went by cutting one you fuck up the team. Much better only signing 3 and 1 Asian and basically playing your best team. I'd hate to have to make a decision who to cut, and even worse imagine being the player that's cut. 

Unless Suwon Bluewings and Shanghai Shenhua draw tonight (just kicked off) it's pretty much mathematically impossible, yeah.

That's only for acl. Thai teams have 5 foreigners iirc.  

Funny how Ange's Brisbane absolutely tanked the champions league but everybody conveniently forgets that because it doesn't suit the anti-Sydney agenda.