Sydney Olympic 2-2 Mt Druitt Town

1 Win, 3 Draws and 3 Losses. That is the home record of Sydney Olympic after 7 home matches so far in season 2019 and once again on Sunday Night, we threw away more crucial competition points at home to another lesser light of the competition, it is getting beyond the joke now.

We currently have a double problem.

We can’t put away enough of our many chances during matches to claim any victories and every time an opposition team attacks our goal, we react like frightened little schoolgirls and as a result, we are giving up way too many goals to our opposition and far too easily.

It is exactly how Sunday’s match against Mt Druitt Town panned out.

We created enough chances to win 2 matches. Alejandro Sanchez who continues to lead the way for Sydney Olympic, finished off 2 great chances to pick up his customary goals for the weekend. But when the rest were called upon, and in a position to contribute and put the ball away, they couldn’t.

In the end, that is what keeps on costing us, our poor finishing. It would cost us again, as we copped 2 cheap goals to let slip a certain victory.

The first goal we conceded was yet another “worldy”. Call it bad luck or whatever, but we have been on the receiving end of way too many of these flukey long range bombs and we fell victim to another one.

The second goal we conceded was like watching a car crash in slow motion and knowing the outcome before it happened. An opposition attacker beat our defence and our goalkeeper to a lob inside the box, to prod it home.

Adding to the frustration of everyone, especially the Sydney Olympic Supporters, was that we managed to not only take the lead once, but twice during the match, yet we crumbled and were pegged back both times.

As I said last week, the players look scared and the confidence of the entire joint is way down, and it is not something that can just be picked back up at the flick of a switch.

The games are running out, as are our opportunities to turn this season around. We have some massively important matches coming up and we need to get out of this funk we are in ASAP otherwise this season will slip away, which would be a shame and a waste of this year.

A team bonding session or whatever it may be (strippers, piss-up?) something needs to be done to spark this group of players to life. As our squad is far too good to be losing to and dropping points to some of the junk we have done especially at home, and we are far too good to be as low as we are on the ladder.

We need to turn it around. Fast.

For the Club Championship, the U18s lost 3-0 and in the U20s, they managed to somehow come up with a 2-1 win.

Our next match is an all-important Round 7 FFA Cup Qualifier on Wednesday Night June 5, against the Marconi Stallions at Belmore Sports Ground. Kick-Off is at 7.30pm. With the form we are in, we are going to need some sort of heroic performance to get through Marconi and finally get over this hump, that has seen us fall at this stage of the Cup for the last 3 seasons in a row.

Our next match in the League is on Sunday Afternoon June 9, away to Blacktown City at Lily Homes Stadium in Seven Hills. Kick-Off is at 3pm.