{"id":18468,"date":"2015-11-09T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=18468"},"modified":"2015-11-16T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:35:06","slug":"a-league-201516-round-five-a-cup-final-no-one-cared-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=18468","title":{"rendered":"A-League 2015\/16 Round 5 &#8211; A Cup Final No One Cared About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball.jpg\" alt=\"tagfootball\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfootball-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffacupvictory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffacupvictory.jpg\" alt=\"ffacupvictory\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffacupvictory.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ffacupvictory-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ADELAIDE UNITED 2 MELBOURNE CITY 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SYDNEY FC 0 BRISBANE ROAR 0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NEWCASTLE JETS 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A Stalemate In Sydney<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brivsyd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brivsyd.jpg\" alt=\"brivsyd\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brivsyd.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/brivsyd-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brisbane Roar travelled to Sydney FC and played out a dour scoreless draw against the league leaders. \u00a0Sydney FC set out to play spoiler tactics from the opening whistle and inflicted a lot of fouls on the Roar. \u00a0With yellow cards not quickly forthcoming, it meant the game was a very stop-start affair that suited the Sky Blues. \u00a0For Brisbane, their consolation will come from keeping a clean sheet for a second week in a row. \u00a0Bizarrely, the last three games between these two sides have been &#8211; 0-0, 5-4, 0-0.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>News and Notes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMD30HzXl1g\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melbourne Victory won the second ever FFA Cup, defeating back-to-back finalists Perth Glory 2-0 in comfortable fashion. \u00a0For a tournament that was promoted as &#8216;The Magic of Cup Football&#8217;, the final felt anything but. \u00a0Overpriced tickets ensured many fans stayed away. \u00a0A week night fixture against Wellington Phoenix a week prior drew a bigger crowd. \u00a0TV viewership was mediocre. \u00a0The game was over as a contest before half time. \u00a0People yawned and moved on. \u00a0It was a game that will be quickly forgotten. \u00a0The only noteworthy milestone was Besart Berisha becoming the first player to score in every round of the tournament.<\/li>\n<li>It took five rounds, but an Adelaide United player finally scored a goal. \u00a0Unfortunately, they conceded four goals at home to Melbourne City. \u00a0It&#8217;s the first genuine sign that the club is going to have a real uphill battle this season and new manager Guillermo Amor might be out of his depth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne comfortably win the second FFA Cup tournament in front an indifferent home crowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[218,1086,342,2324,1230],"class_list":["post-18468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-besart-berisha","tag-brisbane-roar","tag-ffa-cup-final","tag-sydney-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18468\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}