Today I once again bring you a Game of the Australian Premier League, macArthur home to meet the Wellington Phoenix, Red Football only talks about dry goods, let's also analyze this game from the following aspects.
MacArthur FC
Home team MacArthur, as the new Australian Premier League, showed his dark horse nature last season, and the team reached the semi-finals with excellent performances, although it failed to go further in the end, but it was enough for fans to pay more attention to this team. MacArthur's lineup adjustments in the new season are relatively large, after the end of last season, many of the team's meritorious veterans retired, goalkeeper Aardman was originally appointed as the new captain in the offseason, but due to back injuries, Aardman finally made the decision to retire. A string of veteran retirements will have an impact on MacArthur FC's dressing room, and while the squad has been replenished in the new season, the losses in experience and leadership have been immeasurable.
Wellington Phoenix
The away team Wellington Phoenix finished third in the league in the 19/20 season, only to lose home last season, causing the team's record to decline badly last season, and finally missed a point to enter the playoffs. The home stadium of the Wellington Phoenix was once again placed in Wollongong, NSW, not far from Sydney, in the opening stage of the season, and the team has a series of core players left, which is another challenge for the Wellington Phoenix. Fortunately, there are many good young players in the team, who will join forces with some veterans who have returned home to launch an impact on the new season.
MacArthur's main problem is the run-in situation, although there are a number of veterans retired, but they introduced a number of players to supplement the lineup during the transfer period, such as digging up the captain of today's opponent Wellington Phoenix, Davila, Adelaide United's top scorer Tommy, and also introducing a number of players in Melbourne City, Central Waterfront and Western Sydney Wanderers, it can be said that this season is stronger than last season in comparison with the strength of paper, but because there are personnel changes in almost every position, The team's run-in period at the beginning of the new season may be relatively long, which will affect the strength of the team to a certain extent.
MacArthur FCVS Wellington Phoenix
Last season, the Wellington Phoenix lost home advantage, and in the end, it was only one point less than MacArthur, and it is reasonable to say that the Wellington Phoenix should be better than MacArthur in terms of strength. And after more than a year without a home stadium, the Wellington Phoenix has become accustomed to the away game, the lack of sufficient MacArthur advantage is not large, the red football in this game is more willing to support the Wellington Phoenix away attack, the score is inclined to 1:4.