Sydney FC vs Shanghai Shenhua: Asian Champions League live scores, blog

I don't care that people hate MVFC, I'd still watch them. Having said that they've been awful to watch this season - not because they're boring, or negative; but because they've been incompetent. However, last night we got a glimpse of how terrific it can be to watch a football team that had no fear & was willing to play its own game. Even when we went 2-1 up we kept attacking; didn't shut the shop to try to win the game. That's how I like teams to play. If you're good enough, show us how good you are by taking the game on.

That’s an interesting question Nemesis. Perhaps the astounding amount of negative comment - including on this site - has convinced people Sydney are not worth watching. And by extension, if the best team the A-League has ever seen aren’t worth watching then the A-League in general can’t be worth watching. Perhaps that knd of logic has affected all the crowds this season. I don’t understand why commenters here, who mostly want to build up the A-League, spend so much time dumping on its best team. On a related matter, Lucas has written a fine article today and only scored 11 comments. His mistake - writing about playing football, rather than whinging about maladministration or moaning about how cruel the world is to Football.

@Redondo You don't have to agree with me. You enjoy watching SydFC, fine. Stick with them. Do you ever wonder why their fans aren't turning up to watch them?

Nemesis - that’s breathtakingly simplistic. By your reasoning that would make 99.999999% of football teams boring. O’Neill, Brillante, Zullo and Brosque spend huge amounts of energy fetching and carrying ammunition for Mierze, Ninkovic and Bobo.

Fair enough. If you think SydFC is a team you enjoy watching, good for you. I find them uninspiring to watch. Adrian & Ninkovic are great to watch. Bobo is good because he gets service from Adrian & Ninkovic. But, Adrian & Ninkovic were dismal failures in the opening home ACL match &, hence, so was Bobo. So, that's the extent of SydFC. 2 terrific players to watch surrounded by players who are just negative.

Well said. I think all the opposition fans think Sydney are boring etc when really it is their teams that are so. Sydneys talented players make the other teams look very ordinary

Sydney FC - most goals, most passes, least fouls, least cards. Zullo, at left-back, is 2nd in the league for assists. Define negative for me.

Ben Warland played and he’s younger than Calver. Brandon O’Neill played and he’s younger than Paulo Retre. Josh Brillante played and he’s the same age as Paulo Retre. What is your point?

I would have liked to have seen Aaron Calver, Paulo Retre and some youngsters in the starting line-up.

@Stuart I find AFL & NRL rubbish to watch - even at their best. I've been reading on social media that the whole last round of AFL was utter crap quality. Blow out scores. One team only managed to score 2 goals in a sport where you can kick the ball as high as you want to be rewarded for a goal. So, I don't give a stuff "criticism in this country" from football illiterates. I understand you're upset by Shanghai Shenua's negative tactics. Now you understand how we all feel watching Sydney FC.

Arnold has done it again, three times he did not rest his players when they played at home and thats why they failed in the ACL. Shanghai hanging back so what if they had more energy then they could have just put on Simon earlier and peppered the box. . Not that it mattered anyway with results in the rest of the group.

You can’t expect to go through when you don’t score a single goal at home.

That's a bit harsh, Stuart. Why should Shangai lay down & make it easy for Sydney? They have every right to do whatever it takes to get a result that suits them. Away draw is better than a loss. Sydney were hopeless in the 1st 2 matches at home & that's why you're not going to the Ro16.