Archie sends message to Verbeek with Victory Win!

By: Daniel | May 22nd, 2008

muscat1 The Asian champions League journey ended tonight for Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory, and what contrasting performances!! For now i can only post this but stay tunned for Adelaide vs Changchun game review

Melbourne Victory VS Chonburi FC

Last night in front of less than ten thousand people at the Dome, the Victory achieved a 3-1 win Chonburi. Probably got those thinking about that could have been in this competition. A First half blunder by captain Kevin Muscat caused a goal by Chonburi FC striker Ney Fabiano. However the captain redeemed himself on the 55th minute with a tap in from close range. Then it was goals from A-league all time goal scorer Archie Thomspson and Carlos Hernandez, as the Aussies dominated the second half.

Archie sends message to Verbeek with Victory Win! Archie Thompson produced an inspiring return from injury in the 30 minutes that he was on, with he and Carlos Hernandez dominating the second half. Archie did his chances of being selected for the Ghana game no harm here. With Verbeek in the crowd, Thompson did a massive, PICK ME PIM!… PICK ME!. A great performance for the Victory but its too little too late.

What pissed me off most was Merricks post match comments! “It’s amazing though when you get your whole squad in, and you’ve lost Archie and Carlos (Hernandez) early in the piece, but when you get your best squad in you play good football.” stfu Merrick seriously! 1. Two players don’t make the whole team and you cant expect to play good football only when these two are on the park. 2. Melbourne got absolutely OWNED by Gamba Osaka… in both games! Adelaide manager Vidmar has had to deal with injuries to Agostino, Djite, Cassio, Diego but still has produced the goods! I mean you have Elasi on the bench who ripped it last game and you didnt play him at all today! i feel sorry for young kids at the Victory

Mate when will you admitt that your style of football was the problem, not the fact that you ddnt have Carlos and Archie in. Maybe if you stopped winging and put your best team out youd be in the next stage like United. Suffer now i hope the fact that you had less than 10,000 at the game yesterday will open your eyes!

end rant

Match Report

Melbourne Victory 3 (Kevin Muscat 56’, Archie Thompson 65’, Carlos Hernandez 77’)
Chonburi FC 1 (Ney Fabiano De Oliveira 55’)
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Telstra Dome, Melbourne
Referee: Salem Mujghef
Crowd: 9958

Melbourne Victory: 2.Kevin MUSCAT (Captain), 4.Steven PACE, 7.Matthew KEMP, 9.Daniel ALLSOPP, 12.Rodrigo VARGAS, 16.Carlos HERNANDEZ (19.Evan BERGER 81’), 18.Leigh BROXHAM (21.Sebastian RYALL 77’), 20.Mitchell LANGERAK (gk), 22.Nick WARD, 24.Billy CELESKI, 25.Tom PONDELJAK (10.Archie THOMPSON 61’)

Substitutes not used: 1.Michael THEOKLITOS (gk), 6.Steve PANTELDIS, 11.Nathan ELASI, 13.Kaz PATAFTA

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