THE OFFICIAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME FOR THE NRMA INSURANCE WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC NINTH EDITION | SEASON 2012/13 SUNDAY, 06 JANUARY 2013 | ROUND 15 VS CENTRAL COAST MARINERS FC Mariners Beware ONO IS SWITCHED ON TRIFIRO COMES HOME ON A Mission: BRIDGE VS McBreen OFFICIAL WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC PARTNERS CONTENTS CONTENTS THERE IS only 03 UNO SHINJI ONO The Wanderers are looking to continue their roll, and have Shinji Ono ready to take on the Mariners. S INCE YOU WERE 05 LAST HERE The Wanderers drew with Glory 1-1 and followed up 05 with ‘Victory’ over Melbourne. KIDS GET ‘TRICKY’ 06 A positive attitude and football passion is what drives Jason Trifiro. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE 07 Can you spot the five differences in the photos 03 of Dino Kresinger. 07 Players TO Watch Bridge vs McBreen - 07 two strikers proving their worth in goals. #SUMMERFOOTBALL 13 Have you posted your Today’S Match #SummerFootball pics on Advertising ENQUIRIES 08 Can the Wanderers roll the Instagram and Twitter? front running Mariners? For all advertising enquiries please WESTERN SYDNEY contact Jonathan Bannister on 02 8602 6407, 0438 429 713 or email WANDERLAND NEWS 14 WANDERERS FC [email protected] 10 MEET Jack Taylor and Partners PHOTOGRAPHY Sue Sim, BDSFA’s full- Thanking our 2012/13 partners. time staffers, Wally Front cover photograph courtesy of CAPTION CONTEST Getty Images. All photography courtesy Van Gool a Wanderers of Getty Images and Beans & Mash Stretcher Bearer and Linda 15 Caption the photo of Photography. Cerone proud Operations the Wanderers celebrating a Manager of NDSFA. goal for your chance to win. EXperience Australia Day AT Wanderland CORPORate Hospitality PACKAGES NOW Available Starting from $500, exclusive corporate hospitality options are now available for the Australia Day clash against Melbourne Heart. For more details contact Jonathan Bannister by phone 8602 6407, 043 842 9713 or email [email protected]. 02 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC VS CENTRAL COAST MARINERS FC THERE IS only UNO SHINJI ONO THERE IS Only Courtesy of Getty Images UNO SHINJI ONO is among the stand-out stars of the 12. That says it all about a team that has CENTRAL COAST MARINERS A-League competition. He is making got it going on at both ends of the field. ARE GOING TO SEE THE goals and scoring them, and putting In the last three rounds, the Wanderers REAL SHINJI ONO NOW. opposition teams under enormous have beaten two top-three teams - pressure with his quick and accurate Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory. The first time the NRMA Insurance release of the ball to teammates. Their 2-1 win over the Victory on New Western Sydney Wanderers played The Wanderers drew that game with Year’s Day, when Ono scored both goals, the Mariners, Ono wasn’t really a the Mariners, nil-all, without getting leapfrogged them over that side into factor, but in the three months since anything remotely like the sort of third place. Now, they get the chance he has come a hell of a long way. contribution they have since come to to knock off the competition leaders, Ono was on the bench for the expect from a now fit and sharp Ono. and they are relishing the challenge. round-one game against the Mariners So they are entitled to approach this “We’ve had some very good at Parramatta Stadium. He wasn’t game with a very positive outlook. results recently at home,” Popovic used until the 59th minute, and spent Central Coast have certainly said. “We’ve become a team that is his half-an-hour on the field trying improved since then - they are leading difficult to get points off here. We to find his feet at his new club. the competition - but the third-placed certainly hope that continues on That wasn’t a problem. Wanderers Wanderers are on a roll of their own. Sunday, but that’s another challenge. coach Tony Popovic could have easily The defence of the Wanderers has “When you’re playing the league been tempted to throw his valuable been their greatest strength from the leaders, and you’ve recently beaten marquee man straight into the start, but early on they struggled to Adelaide and the Victory, it’s very starting side, but he knew Ono lacked score goals. Now, they are as dangerous pleasing and encouraging for the players, condition because he hadn’t played as any team in front of goal. and they have got a lot of belief now. for a while, so his sensible plan was The Wanderers scored no goals in their But they also know that without the always to bring him along gradually. first three games, five in their next four hard work and dedication they have And how well that plan has and then none in their following two. So, put in so far, things can change quickly. worked! Fast forward three months after nine games they had just five goals. So we’ve got to be as committed as from that October 6 game and Ono In their five games since, they have scored we’ve ever been again this week.” WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC VS CENTRAL COAST MARINERS FC 03 SINCE YOU WERE LAST HERE SINCE YOU WERE LAST HERE possession to Wanderers’ 44 percent in the the 34th minute held comfortably first half and had more shots on goals. by goalkeeper Ante Covic was as Despite Western Sydney’s defensive dangerous as they got in the first half. focus and Perth’s possession control, Inside the last 10 minutes of the first the Wanderers were not without half, the home side ran rampant, and Ono their own first-half chances. looked more likely to score than most. Haliti had a chance to score in the When the visitors made the mistake 20th minute when Tarek Elrich put of allowing him too much time on in a swinging cross to the backpost the ball on the edge of the box, he that caught Risdon out of place, made them pay with a deadly shot but Haliti’s header crashed into the to give the home side the lead. Perth defender and deflected away. The Wanderers would have expected Perth Glory FC 1 the Victory to come back strongly (Ward 86) after half-time, and they did. Western Sydney Wanderers FC 1 But the hosts lifted as well, and Courtesy of Getty Images (Haliti 36) continued to control the match. ROUND 13 VS Midway through the second half, Perth Glory FC at ROUND 14 VS the Wanderers produced their most Patersons Stadium MELBOURNE Victory FC substantial spell of pressure for the at Parramatta Stadium entire game, with two shots going close Western Sydney survived a late Perth and a decent call for a handball penalty Glory onslaught to hold on for a 1-1 Japanese superstar Shinji Ono celebrated rejected all in the space of three minutes. draw at Patersons Stadium in Round 13. the New Year in magnificent fashion by The Victory rallied again, with Archie The Wanderers scored against the scoring both goals as the Western Sydney Thompson and Rojas prominent in trying run of play in the 36th minute when Wanderers beat Melbourne Victory 2-1. to get something going in attack, and Labinot Haliti cut back inside Josh The win leapfrogged the eventually equalised through substitute Risdon and slotted the ball home Wanderers over the Victory to Spase Dilevski, in the 72nd minute. off the inside of the woodwork. third place on the ladder. But the Wanderers sat the visitors Up until Nick Ward’s 86th-minute And Ono, the marquee man, was on their backsides for good when equaliser, it looked as though Western the hero, with brilliant strikes for Ono struck a second time. Sydney would complete a rare double with goals in the 42nd and 79th minutes. Western Sydney Wanderers FC 2 two away wins in Perth this season after For the first goal, he accepted the ball (Ono 42, 79) their 1-0 victory over Glory in November. low on the volley, knocked it up with his Melbourne Victory FC 1 But the home side pulled level when second touch and then drove it home (Dilevski 72) Ryo Nagai sent in a cross from the low on the turn with his left foot. left and, unmarked at the back post, For the second, he received the Ward hit the ball hard into the ground, ball on the edge of the penalty box, hitting the crossbar and rebounding in. looked around for support, decided that Perth could have easily snatched all shooting himself was the best option three points late in the game as they and smashed the ball past goalkeeper put Western Sydney under pressure. Nathan Coe with his right foot. Shane Smeltz had a header blocked The Wanderers had much the on the line by team-mate Nagai just better of the first half against a two minutes after Ward’s goal. strangely ineffective Victory. The hosts had already missed a golden Good scoring chances started coming opportunity to equalise on 82 minutes as early as the eighth minute, when a when Steve McGarry’s cross to the back header across the goal from Youssouf post found Liam Miller, who headed Hersi found Mark Bridge unmarked, but tantalisingly across the face of the he volleyed his shot way over the top. visitors’ goal, only for it to be cleared. Shannon Cole shot just wide in the Perth’s best chances of the first half 18th minute, and Iacopo La Rocca forced came from long range, with Smeltz, Coe to palm a shot wide in the 20th.