A-League: Melbourne Victory 2-1 vs. Newcastle Jets Analysis (Part 2)
However, the Newcastle Jets midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ruben-Zadkovich-c31858 equalled the scoreboard. Zadkovich scored a very similar goal in the 54th minute of the match to hand in the equaliser.
He launched in a right-footed volley from about 25 yards after he neatly collected it. It seemed for a while that his goal had ended the match altogether, but Kruse and Ricardinho did not know that part of the story.
Kruse was energetic throughout the match. Just before he provided the goal that changed the course of the match, he lost an opportunity to score himself. The roles were reversed in this case, as Ricardinho brought the house down
on the right flank and then passed the ball, but Kruse was unsuccessful in finishing the ball from short range.
Nonetheless, the 22-year-old Kruse’s failed attempt was not taken for the worst as his performance in general was pretty amazing. The coach of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Melbourne-Victory-c39899 Ernie Merrick was happy with his striker who was actually filling
a role in.
Merrick is currently facing a dilemma as star striker http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Archie-Thompson-c6447 is out injured and on the bench with him are two more first line up players.
On the issue the coach stated, “I think a little bit of Archie's rubbed off on Robbie. He's much stronger, he's tougher, he doesn't get knocked off the ball so easily, I can't praise him enough. He's come a long way in a short
period of time.”
Merrick continued, “It was a wee bit of magic at the end. I don't know how many times he beat either the same player twice or another player.”
He added, “Sometimes you think it's going to take something a bit special to break the deadlock and we produced it when we needed to.”
On the other hand, Newcastle Jets coach Branko Culina was happy with the way his men performed. He reckoned his team should have at least gained a point from the match. As a matter of fact, Newcastle Jets did enjoy most of the
possession in the game.
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