Beating the bogey
It was always going to be interesting to see how the Victory would bounce back after last week’s humiliation at the hands of Sydney, particularly against traditional bogey team (if there can be such a thing), Newcastle. And for forty-five minutes it looked like we were going to be in for a repeat of last week’s performance. Fortunately, Merrick saw the light and replaced Ney Fabiano with Mate Dugandzic and switched to a back three, having almost instant impact. There was also the small matter of Carlos Hernandez playing an absolutely blinding second half and being involved in all three of our goals. My 442 readership is probably getting sick of me harping on about Hernandez, so I gave it a miss and wrote about everything bar the Costa Rican in my latest blog that you can read here. Also if you missed the match, you can get all the highlights from my minute-by-minute analysis of the match.
Tags: carlos hernandez, ernie merrick, Mate Dugandzic, melbourne victory, ney fabiano
