Blacktown City 4-0 Sydney Olympic

Our season is now officially spiralling out of control after we copped a 4-0 hiding against Blacktown City on Sunday Afternoon. At this point it seems to have been a masterstroke for the club to have appointed a new Coach with 6 weeks to go (rolls eyes). Making the Finals now looks like an improbability and even if we did happen to make the Finals, if we dish up that sort of rubbish again, it would simply be a waste of time being there.

It all started positively enough as we held our own against the League Leaders Blacktown City. It was actually a good contest and a fairly even first-half where both sides were playing well. Both teams also created quite a few good opportunities to score, but both goalkeepers were having good games and both were doing their jobs well as they kept the score at 0-0. As we headed to the break dead-locked at 0-0 we were optimistic of another solid performance in the second-half, but no one could have guessed what would be waiting for us in the second-half.

At the start of the second-half things looked normal and the first 10 minutes or so of the second-half was a continuation of the type of game we had been seeing in the first-half. Sure there were the usual frustrations of struggling to put away chances and to score goals, but we were fairly confident that the one facet of our play that has held us in rather good stead this season, our defence, would hold up and continue to keep us in the contest. After all Sydney Olympic came into this match having the best defensive record out of anyone else in the League. But within the space of 20 second-half minutes all that would be blown apart as Blacktown City ran riot. We were even treated to a 15-minute hat-trick by former player James Andrew, a player 99% of all Sydney Olympic Supporters never wanted to see leave the Club, but was deemed surplus to requirements by the Club. We totally lost our way conceding goal after goal and we just could not respond to what was happening, seeing us slump to a 4-0 loss.

A running theme of this season is the amount of penalties we have missed so far this season and on Sunday we missed another one. I must admit I have not been keeping track of it this season, but I ballpark the figure, at least 5 missed penalties. This all nicely ties in with our other on-going theme from this season, not being able to score goals.

The tradition that keeps on keeping on is the tradition of Sydney Olympic ousting its own promising players only for them to come back and bite us on the ass with an opposition club somewhere down the track, I would seriously be here all week naming them all. It was the same story on Sunday as former player James Andrew collected a hat-trick and made us look like the mugs we are.

Poor recruitment, poor signings, playing people out of position has been the hallmark of Sydney Olympic in season 2017 and with 4 massive games to finish this season it certainly does not look good.

Not sure why the Club spends so much time and money searching for and hiring obscure Iberian Coaches, especially ones with absolutely no idea what it takes to navigate a team through the NSW State League, is it just a status thing to say “hey look at us we have a Spanish Coach”? If only they spent their money signing players for the front third of the pitch.

Our season is slipping away.

For the Club Championship it was another poor round of results, the U20’s got beat 3-0, while the U18’s grabbed a 3-3 draw.

Our next match is next Sunday Afternoon, at Belmore Sports Ground, July 23 against APIA Leichhardt, who just smashed Parramatta FC 6-0, so it is going to be another up-hill battle. Kick-Off is at 5pm.