ANALYSIS: Western United's semifinal win over Sydney FC a triumph of fight over favour
abc.net.au/news/western-united-semi-final-win-over-sydney-fc-triumph-tenacity/102229668Perhaps it was the forearm to the face that made Sydney FC realise this was not a fight they were going to win.
Charlotte McLean was in the wars during Sydney FC's defeat to Western United in the A-League Women semifinal on Sunday. Down the right, Western's stand-out young winger Kahli Johnson, who had left the newly-crowned premiers at the end of last season in search of more game-time, regularly found herself tussling and tumbling with Sydney full-back Kirsty Fenton, while veteran TJ Vlajnic twisted and turned Charlize Rule on the opposite side.
Western United have never claimed to play good football. What they have done, though, is play effective football: the football that is necessary to get them where they want to go. "We know we can play. We've got some fantastic individual players. But sometimes you've got to grind games out and get results.
That their first and only goal came through Keane, who crashed the ball home against the run of play, mere minutes before sending McLean tumbling into the grass, said everything about what this brand-new ALW club has been building over their inaugural season: a culture based on fighting harder and longer than everyone else.It's a fight they're trying to win off the field, too.
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