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Three Melbourne Victory players in Adrian Leijer, Archie Thompson and Jimmy Jeggo have been named
in a 31-player Australia squad for a training camp in Sydney next week. Socceroos coach Holger
Osiek is staying true to his word on giving A-League based players a chance to impress and will use
the two day camp to
Sydney are stronger this season - both in defence crucial to their Championship winning year under
Vitaslev and in attack.
Last year they lacked the mobility, pace and craft to hurt any team and always conceded-
eventually.
This year, anyone who saw their Brisbane performance will know that they were able to dominate the
Roar and should have been in the lead by half-time.
It started with Ernie - Mehmet inherited and added to the mess and now look where we are.
The Victory midfield has been a debacle since Fred left. His fast running midfield added much to
Archie Thompson and a younger Danny Allsopp's firepower but how many years ago was that.
And was the style sustainable in Asia - or even the A-League.
Melbourne Victory's first half performance was the best they've ever played this season according
to Coach Mehmet Durakovic.
Blimey!
I know the standard has been poor this season but best they've ever played takes the biscuit.
A flukey penalty gave them a 1-0 lead after 40 seconds and then after the usual huff and bluff died
down at Aami Stadium the Gold Coast started to turn the screw.
Rocky Visconte was the man of this match. Not because he was the best player, but because he played
so much better than he has before. Ange starting him over Issy added new Broich like movement to
the Roar on attack. For the first time in 5 games, Brisbane had a midfield that was always
searching forward, looking to beat the first defender and so drawing the second across and creating
space elsewhere.
