Right you are - I should have prefaced that with 'before sydney took their foot off the gas...'
As a complete aside, why doesnt that Barbarosa kid start more?
He should. Its a bit of a travesty.
Ifill's playing extremely well and is very good with the ball at his feet, and often beats defenders. The issue is though is that he likes to come deep for the ball, and then set up his target man for a run off the ball closer to goal. However, Chris Greenacre isn't that type of player. He's a 'poacher', someone who'll score ugly goals, but the combination of the two and the style the Phoenix plays is that they rely too heavily on the cross and it doesn't work because Greenacre is a bloke you play the ball in front of on the deck and Ifill is a guy who won't be there because he's too busy bossing it behind the strikers true line.
Over who? Wellington have, IMO, the best front 6 in the league. Or at least they will once Fred arrives. All the same, he's not getting near Greenacre or Ifill's spots.
I don't think they do. They're certainly not consinstently cohesive. We've struggled to get the ball in the back of the net. The midfield as in central midfielders are too static, Lia and Brown are both box to box players with little creativity (maybe a Diego or Fred would work well in this capacity instead), Daniel is a little bit slow on the left but great technically (maybe Ifill could play here as he prefers to play deeper it seems), and Bertos... well he's good, but he probably needs to read Greenacre a lot better and instead of whipping in head high crosses where Greenacre is horribly out 'heighted' against the centre halfs in this competition, Bertos needs to work on threading it more along the ground to get Greenacre poaching. They're playing Greenacre as a target man, which he most definitely is not.
