{"id":6587,"date":"2012-01-08T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2014-05-12T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T07:25:31","slug":"a-league-201112-round-16-squidwards-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6587","title":{"rendered":"A-League 2011\/12 – Round 16 – Squidward’s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brisbane Roar played Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium in Round 16.\u00a0 Their first encounter since Brisbane thrashed Adelaide 7-1 at home.\u00a0 But this was different.\u00a0 We are no longer the high flying Brisbane team with an undefeated streak and Adelaide United have re-invented themselves under new coach John Kosmina.\u00a0 In fact, they are now unbeaten in five games.\u00a0 A rare run of form that eluded them at the start of the season when they reported to Rini Coolen.<\/p>\n

After Round 15’s miserable form against Perth Glory, it was a mystery as to which Brisbane side would turn up.\u00a0 Would it be the all conquering defending champions or the aimless bush-league players that lost five on the trot?<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long to find out.\u00a0 Brisbane dominated from the outset and completely shut Adelaide out of the game.\u00a0 At times, the possession stats were close to 80%.\u00a0 Adelaide were simply starved of the ball and were given few chances.\u00a0 Brisbane on the other hand looked dangerous.\u00a0 Only referee Ben Williams appeared to have the chance to upset the balance.\u00a0 He inexplicably waved play on when Rocky Visconte was brought down in the box for what looked a clear penalty.<\/p>\n

Early in the second half, Brisbane’s dominance finally paid off and Issey Nakajima Farran drilled in a goal to give the Roar the lead.\u00a0 The Roar didn’t sit back but continued to press forward with confidence.<\/p>\n

Then, in the 78th minute, Brisbane captain Matt Smith stumbled over his own feet in the penalty area and former Brisbane striker Sergio ‘Squidward’ Van Dijk fell in a heap on top of Smith.\u00a0 Ben Williams blew the whistle for a penalty which Van Dijk duly converted.\u00a0 1-1.\u00a0 And it stayed that way to the full time whistle.\u00a0 Meanwhile Central Coast Mariners beat Sydney 1-0 to stretch their lead at the top of the table to 8 points with a game in hand.\u00a0 They appear out of reach.<\/p>\n

Although we’ve recovered from our form slump, I feel like Brisbane isn’t getting the rub of the green at the moment.\u00a0 Three penalty decisions in five weeks haven’t gone our way, Central Coast don’t look like dropping any points and are running away with the minor premiereship.\u00a0 We need something to our form around and secure some back to back wins.<\/p>\n

Next week we play Sydney FC, the team that ended our streak.\u00a0 The game will be notable for the long awaited return of the talismanic Thomas Broich.<\/p>\n

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

MELBOURNE VICTORY 2 NEWCASTLE JETS 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

WELLINGTON PHOENIX 0 PERTH GLORY 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

SYDNEY FC 0 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

GOLD COAST UNITED 1 MELBOURNE HEART 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brisbane Roar played Adelaide United at Hindmarsh Stadium in Round 16.\u00a0 Their first encounter since Brisbane thrashed Adelaide 7-1 at home.\u00a0 But this was different.\u00a0 We are no longer the high flying Brisbane team with an undefeated streak and Adelaide United have re-invented themselves under new coach John Kosmina.\u00a0 In fact, they are now unbeaten …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[218,342],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-league","tag-brisbane-roar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","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=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6594,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}