My wife thinks it’s a bit silly to dish out $60 for a friendly in which we’re bound to get pummelled.
But for me and the 50,000+ spectators at Telstra Dome tonight, Melbourne vs. Juventus offers a chance to watch one of the world’s greatest teams in action against our little club.
Ernie Merrick said earlier this week that he would be happy if Melbourne could come out of tonight’s clash with Juventus with a goal or two. A goal or two would be impressive indeed, even if Juventus are missing many of their best players.
Frankly, I’m not too fussed about the result. Just show me some good football and a courageous effort by the Victory lot, and I’ll be happy.
ps. Ernie, please, please give the youngsters a go. Evan Berger, Kaz Patafta, Nathan Elasi. There’s nothing to play for tonight, give them more than 3 minutes to play against a world-class team.
pps. Credit to my wife. Not only did she let me dish out $60 for the game, she’s coming along.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Philip // May 30, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I’ll be spending my $ too.
Friendly or not, we dont get major club teams out here very often and a second string Juventus is better than a first string USA Galaxy.
If Victory play to their full potential we may get under the pump a bit but i dont expect too be embarrassed and with a Thomson/Allsop/Hernandez fast break we may give them a scare occassionally. I hope Danny has his scoring boots on as he may only get one or two chances all night.
I predict we will score at least once maybe twice … fingers crossed!
2 Eric // May 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Apparently Allsopp won’t be there tonight, as he’s in the Socceroos extended squad for Sunday. As is Vargas.
The bright side to Allsopp being out is that it should mean we get to see plenty of Ney Fabiano.
3 new tactix // May 31, 2008 at 12:48 pm
How the hell did Allsopp get a Socceroos call up… Australia cannot be that desperate!
4 Brenton // May 31, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Who knows tactix, maybe Pim is trying to lure Iraq into a false sense of hope but them sub him for someone who knows where the net is…
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