Tonight sees Central Coast Mariners head down the M1 to take on Sydney FC in what is a crucial fixture for both sides. Join us for live scores and commentary from 7.45pm AEDT.
Much of the media coverage this week has been on the exit of two high-profile footballers from the A-League.
One is a Sydney FC marquee, and the other is a boy playing his trade in Glasgow who will be on his way back to the A-League to cement his place in Ange Postecoglou’s World Cup squad.
Both sides will be looking to get their season back on track after some woeful results as of late.
Sydney FC welcome back Joel Chianese from injury, Nicky Carle from suspension, while Aaron Calver is promoted to the match day squad.
The Sky Blues are however without Richie Garcia, Tiago Calvano, and Hagi Gilgor through injury, suspension and international duty respectively.
They also farewell their marquee man Brett Emerton, who announced his retirement at the age of 35 from the world game during the week.
Central Coast Mariners welcome in Tom Slater, Marcel Siep and Hayden Morton, while John Hutchinson is out through suspension.
Sydney FC will need to get back to winning ways to keep their finals push alive, their run of four straight losses has been quite ridiculous and Farina will be looking to turn his fortunes around before speculation about his future will come to air again.
Prediction
Sydney FC will return to winning ways, I predict a 2-1 victory late on.
Matthew Skellett
Guest
I can't believe it's not butter and that there is no live blog for the Wanderers vs Reds game :-(
ciudadmarron
Guest
Witty, gets the team going, gets the crowd going in support of the team.... I like it!
leon
Guest
To think, the SFC youth team is walking their league. Hmmmm.
Mossy
Guest
Hear ye hear ye
Mossy
Guest
Obviously. Does not want to play for the coach
Mossy
Guest
The worst performance all year bojic should have sacked weeks ago and to take of Carl when chasing a game and leave mcflynn on especially after giving the ball away again for the goal struggle to understand
Mossy
Guest
Farina bojic and mc flyns should all go how do you take of Carl when chasing a game and leave mc flyns on
leon
Guest
Typical ESFC.
AZ_RBB
Guest
Second half was almost as bad as I've ever seen SFC play. Kudos to the 16k who turned up tonight. The team will be glad to be away from home for the next couple of weeks. Big Blue in 8 days, so a good chance to get that momentum back. ADP is starting to become another issue. I can't think of a single decent thing he did tonight. He is plain lazy now.
Zee
Roar Guru
FT SYDNEY FC 0 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 0 Woeful, disgraceful and shocking effort from SFC, that's 5 losses in the row. Deserving victory from the Mariners, solid display, especially in the second half. FARINA OUT. Goodnight x
Zee
Roar Guru
The Cove in full voice, chant of the night ... "FARINA OUT"
Zee
Roar Guru
`87 - SFC 0 CCM 1 Blurgh Sydney... just give it up. Absolutely woeful perfromance, no drive, no passion, no urge to fight. Game's almost up, even ADP isn't immune to criticism
Zee
Roar Guru
`83 SFC 0 vs CCM 1 "If Frank isn't given the boot soon I dare say Sydney FC fans will be directing their venom higher up the food chain." I very much agree with this fans statement, tonight's tactics have been absolutely woeful, as a SFC fan watching this club play has become a chore, change needs to come. CCM all over Sydney.
Zee
Roar Guru
`73 SFC 0 Vs CCM 0 McFlynn earns his 50th Yellow Card of his career, while CCM make a change, Fitzgerald off for Duke.
Zee
Roar Guru
Crowd - 16,006
Zee
Roar Guru
SUBS - CCM IBINI - ON Sterjovski - OFF
Zee
Roar Guru
`67 SFC 0 Vs CCM 1 Great strike for Macbreen Saved well by Vedz Balkan FC need to ump their game here
Zee
Roar Guru
SUBS - Double Change for Sydney FC Joal Chianese - ON Marc Warren - OFF Dimitrievic - ON Carle - OFF
AZ_RBB
Guest
i like it how you conveniently took the goal off CCM again :P but nah richly deserved despite it being a fairly scrappy goal.
Zee
Roar Guru
`60 SFC 0 Vs CCM 0 CCM with the free kick after Petkovic foul's one of their own, FK comes to nothing. Now would be a nice time Franky to introduce some fresh attacking blood