{"id":3739,"date":"2011-01-03T12:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2011-01-03T12:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:25:10","slug":"a-league-round-24-brisbane-roar-vs-adelaide-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"A-League – Round 24 – Brisbane Roar vs Adelaide United"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adelaide's Season: has seen better days<\/p><\/div>\n

The first game of the New Year for Brisbane Roar saw them face their fiercest challenge to The Streak yet:\u00a0 a top of the table clash away to Adelaide United and without three of their key players: Matt McKay (international duty), Thomas Broich (groin injury) and Ivan Franjic (pulled his hammy).\u00a0 This game was seen to be a major test of the Roar’s depth in their squad.<\/p>\n

Adelaide were keen to pull themselves out of a recent form slump that has seen them lose four out of their last five games.\u00a0 It’s a credit to their exceptional form at the start of the season that they’ve maintained the second spot on the ladder.<\/p>\n

The first half saw the Reds pile on a heap of pressure.\u00a0 Less than five minutes of play had passed when Cassio fired a wicked shot which Roar keeper Theoklitos parried onto his own crossbar with his fingertips.\u00a0 In the opening passage of play, the Reds looked the goods.\u00a0 It took almost fifteen minutes before the Roar managed to find their shape and begin to assert some pressure of their own.\u00a0 Clearly a period of adjustment was required when they were missing their midfield general Matt McKay.<\/p>\n

For reasons that weren’t entirely clear to me, the crowd at Hindmarsh stadium were really giving Roar striker Solorzano a hard time, booing him whenever he got the ball.\u00a0 He seemed unphased though and looked dangerous whenever he was on the ball.\u00a0 As for ex-Roar striker Sergio Van Dyk, I swear he seems to bring his B-game to matches against his old club, where he seemingly manages to miss shots at goal that he reliably puts away against any other club.<\/p>\n

The game remained scoreless at halftime.\u00a0 It was an entertaining half of football though that was of the standard you’d expect from the two finest teams in the comp.<\/p>\n

The second half for Brisbane saw the welcome return of pint-sized Henrique, who has been out of action since Round Five.\u00a0 In his first game back he looked sharp and still obviously has the incredible pace and footwork that made him such a crowd pleaser in past seasons.<\/p>\n

On the stroke of the seventieth minute an attempted throughball by the Roar took a deflection off Reds defender Iain Fyfe and landed in the path of Solorzano.\u00a0 Solo was one on one with the keeper Birighitti and he made the most of it, striking the ball cleanly into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

For the rest of the game, the Roar held firm and despite some jitters in injury time, the Reds couldn’t break the Roar defence.\u00a0 The Roar retain their eleven point leader at the top of the table with both the minor premiereship and qualification into the Asian Champions League looking all but certain.\u00a0 They extend their record breaking unbeaten streak to nineteen matches.<\/p>\n

BRISBANE ROAR 1 ADELAIDE UNITED 0<\/h2>\n

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