Match Review- Melbourne Heart Vs NQ Fury FC

What a match! Unfortunately the result didn't go our way, but sometimes in football you can dominate a match and lose, that's the beauty of it (unless like this week you are on the losing end).

While there were a few notable moments in the game, there were 2 wasteful oppurtunties of Eugene Sseppuya (who in the end was lucky to even put his foot on the ball) and Isaka Cernak, that on another night perhaps would have been in the back of the net. A big positive to be taken out of this match is the resolve shown by the players, not giving up right until the final whistle which vice captain Gareth Edds puts down to team spirit- "People don't like playing against us because we have a great team spirit and they know that we will go at them all the way to the end."

Coach Straka was happy with the way NQFC played - "The way we played was the best performance of the season, we can be very happy with the shape and as a team we did everything (right). I take a lot of positives from the game, it's so very important that we never stopped the work, playing positive ... it was a very good presentation of our club. Not scoring is the only pity."

Big plaudits need to go to Gareth Edds, once again. Had a great match in defence and showed that he also knows how to attack, with only a great save from Clint Bolton stopping him from getting his first goal for the Fury.

Brain explosion of the night has to go to Akoto, who late in the second half played a marvelous through ball for the Heart, forcing Pasfield to pull off another gravity defying save. Aside from that Akoto, Hughes and Storey were solid at the back. McDonald got his debut start on saturday and showed that the boss made the right choice, they didn't get behind him all night, and his speed caused the Heart plenty of concern when he pushed forward down the left.

It has to be said that the Fury really did not get the result they deserved on Saturday.