THE OFFICIAL MATCH DAY PROGRAMME FOR THE NRMA INSURANCE WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC ELEVENTH EDITION | SEASON 2012/13 Saturday, 09 February 2013 | ROUND 20 VS NEWCASTLE JETS FC COMMUNITY MATCH CAMPBELLTOWN STADIUM WANDERERS SET TO TAKE DOWN JETS COOL & CALM LA ROCCA KEEPING FAITH: COVIC VS BIRIGHITTI OFFICIAL WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC PARTNERS CONTENTS CONTENTS WANDERERS WILL BE Players TO Watch CAPTION CONTEST 03 GUNNING FOR FIRST 07 Covic vs Birighitti - both aware 15 Caption the photo of WIN OVER JETS that experience is essential. the Kwabena Appiah-Kubi The club looking to notch a for your chance to win. fifth consecutive win on the belt. Today’S Match 08 Can we get a victory S INCE YOU WERE over the Jets? 04 LAST HERE The Wanderers grabbed two National YOUTH wins nabbing third spot on 10 LEAGUE Match REVIEWS the ladder in the process. Advertising ENQUIRIES The youth league are LA ROCCA ENJOYS For all advertising enquiries please on a roll with wins over contact Corey Mouttou on 02 8602 05 BREAKING DOWN the Roar and AIS. 6417, 0404 042 328, email cmouttou@ THE BARRIERS wswanderersfc.com.au or Kelly Russell PLAY FOOTBALL on 02 8602 6413, 0431 404 521, email The Italian defender on hand to [email protected] secure the Wanderers back line. 12 Every player has to start somewhere. PHOTOGRAPHY SPOT THE DIFFERENCE Front cover photograph courtesy of 06 Can you spot the five WESTERN SYDNEY Getty Images. All photography courtesy of Getty Images, Beans & Mash differences in the photos of the 14 WANDERERS FC Partners Photography., Eric Berry and Quarrie Wanderers celebrating their Photography win over Melbourne Heart. Thanking our 2012/13 partners. WANDERERS WILL BE GUNNING FOR FIRST WIN OVER JETS WANDERERS WILL BE GUNNING FOR FIRST WIN OVER JETS Courtesy of Getty Images THE NRMA INSURANCE matches with one draw and one loss. carry a minus eight goal difference. WESTERN SYDNEY They are looking down the barrel of There is no doubt Gary van Egmond’s WANDERERS WILL BE five wins in a row – something no other team will be desperate and if they OUT TONIGHT TO beat team has been able to do this season can find some purpose they have the NEWCASTLE JETS FC FOR THE and are backing up after scoring four ability to score with former England FIRST TIME AND BECOME THE goals against another top four team international Heskey and Griffiths who FIRST TEAM THIS SEASON TO (away) in Adelaide United last week. have both tallied eight goals this season. WIN FIVE GAMES IN A ROW. The league’s new boys are on a Winger Craig Goodwin is a single-minded mission to crush all in dangerous attacking forward and Apart from highflyers the Central front of them with their up-tempo, his four goals do not do his season Coast Mariners, the Jets are the only disciplined, attacking style of football justice. Recently-resigned midfielder team in the Hyundai A-League the that has seen them roll over under- Ruben Zadkovich is in sparkling form Wanderers have not beaten at least prepared or nervy opponents. and his battle with Mateo Poljak once in their very first season. Their imposing and vocal army of will be a highlight of the match. The Wanderers drew with the Mariners supporters, growing larger by the week, The Wanderers are littered with ex- in Round One and were unlucky in is their “big teammate” according to Jets who have found their career best their 2-0 loss in Round Fifteen. talisman Shinji Ono that pushes them form in Western Sydney. Goalkeeper The Jets, however, managed to cancel to super human levels of athleticism. Ante Covic is setting the benchmark out Joey Gibbs’ 15’ goal and put two of The Jets on the other hand are still for the season with nine clean sheets their own in the net in the first half to trying to get their season into third gear. and 57 saves. Nikolai Topor-Stanley is secure a 2-1 win against the Wanderers They have drawn four of their last five the best performing central defender at Parramatta Stadium in Round Six. games and were lucky to snag a point in the league and Adam D’Apuzzo is The goals to the Jets’ big guns, Ryan against Sydney FC last week on the back dominating opponents at left back. Griffiths (27’) and Emile Heskey (37’), of two penalties, one of them dubious. Mark Bridge, another former Jet, proved the difference on the night and The Jets have not won away since has formed a lethal combination with many thought the match would signal beating the Wanderers on November 10. import Youssouf Hersi and Ono is the rise of the men from the Hunter. They sit in fifth place more out of either directing the attack or firing Things have certainly not worked the poor performances of those teams at goal himself and franking his out that way and the circumstances that around them than their own merits. marquee status with every match. the two meet tonight are very different They are two points ahead of Brisbane The Wanderers quietly believe they from those thirteen rounds ago. Roar, Melbourne Heart and Sydney and were the better team in the first encounter The Wanderers now command third three ahead of ninth-placed Wellington and just had trouble converting in front position on the table on the back of an Phoenix and anyone of them could of goal. If recent history is any guide imposing eight wins from their last ten unseat them this week as they also that will not be an issue tonight. WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC VS NEWCASTLE JETS FC 03 SINCE YOU WERE LAST HERE SINCE YOU WERE LAST HERE Courtesy of Getty Images fitness and willingness to attack set a Galekovic could only double-palm away. tempo that Heart could not match. In the 32nd minute Dario Vidosic Williams again found himself free played Iain Ramsay in with a beautiful in the box in the 59th minute and his ball and the Reds winger had the shot hit the side netting – their only only real chance for the half. serious chance in the second stanza. Pressure mounted and in the 46th The Wanderers procession minute in a piece of play involving continued and Hersi mesmerized five Wanderers including Shannon and tormented the opposition and Cole and Dino Kresinger. created at least four serious chances. Bridge kept a high ball in off the The best saw Mark Bridge play him touch line and Mooy had two shots through and he was only three metres before Galekovic’s save fell to Hersi who out with only the keeper to beat and played it across the goal mouth and in. Redmayne smothered his shot. Two minutes later Hersi became the Thirty seconds later Ono was even provider playing a ball, stolen by Mooy closer on the keeper and Redmayne in midfield, to an unmarked Bridge ROUND 18 VS managed to smother and save again. who buried his right foot shot into the MELBOURNE HEART FC at Hersi was brought down in the net for 2-0 just before half time. PARRAMATTA Stadium box and a penalty was awarded. Adelaide again launched out of the Ono stepped up to take the penalty blocks for the second and had their A new chapter of bravery was written and slid it cleverly home to the right, first shot on target through Nigel when the NRMA Western Sydney in front of the Wanderers’ home end Boogaard’s head in the 49th minute. Wanderers team played with ten men for fans who went into raptures. Interplay between Shinji Ono and 80 minutes and completely overwhelmed Western Sydney Wanderers FC 1 Bridge saw Bridge cross a beautiful ball Melbourne Heart in an Australia Day (Ono 73) to an unmarked Hersi who headed it in classic at Parramatta Stadium. Melbourne Heart FC 0 for his second goal in the 52nd minute. The scene was set in only the 12th Substitute Bruce Djite fired a tidy left minute when fullback Jerome Polenz ROUND 20 VS foot shot from outside the penalty area for was red-carded for taking down ADELAIDE UNITED FC at Adelaide’s first goal in the 60th minute. Heart flyer David Williams in front HINDMARSH Stadium Seven minutes later, Hersi swooped on a of goal to the dismay of a heaving loose ball and produced a lovely low cross. crowd of 14,624 supporters. Adelaide United were defeated Bridge managed an air swing Wanderers goalkeeper Ante Covic easily by the NRMA Insurance Western but an unmarked Poljak gathered, saved Josip Tadic’s penalty and his fist Sydney Wanderers with the Hyundai turned and drove it in for 4-1. pump signalled it was time to get going. A-League’s new boys scoring another Ramsay scored a consolation goal Midfielder Mateo Poljak stepped into massive win over the Reds. after breaking free from Cole in the 87th the right fullback to cover for Polenz. Two goals in two minutes in the first half minute but the match was decided. Coach Tony Popovic took midfielder and two more in the first fifteen minutes Adelaide United FC 2 Aaron Mooy off in the 21st minute for of the second half saw the Wanderers (Djite 60, Ramsay 87) the cool and calm Iacopo La Rocca. destroy Adelaide in their own backyard for Western Sydney Wanderers FC 4 Hersi beat Heart defenders at a decisive 4-2 win on Sunday afternoon. (Hersi 43, 52, Bridge 45, Poljak 68 ) will and a few minutes later he had Adelaide came out the blocks early and a shot that missed just to the left.