{"id":8078,"date":"2026-05-09T12:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:47:06","slug":"kisnorbo-hails-best-performance-from-resurgent-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8078\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisnorbo hails &#8216;best performance&#8217; from resurgent Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1-1 first-leg semi-final draw has Sydney FC coach Patrick Kisnorbo optimistic about the direction of his team. <\/p>\n<p>The battle to advance to the Isuzu Ute A-League Grand Final remains evenly poised despite Sydney FC outpossessing and outshooting Newcastle on Saturday at Allianz Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Kisnorbo, now on a six-game undefeated run since taking charge in late March, said his players   \u201cgave everything\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/aleague-men-semi-final-sydney-fc-newcastle-jets-goals-highlights\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/aleague-men-semi-final-sydney-fc-newcastle-jets-goals-highlights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match Report: Sydney FC 1-1 Newcastle Jets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cThe performance was great,\u201d Kisnorbo said post-match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s probably been our best performance since I\u2019ve been here, which is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScored a pretty good goal\u2026lack of concentration for the equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to be a bit more aggressive with the way we play, and we did that great tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight they showed they can do that for 90-minutes plus and it\u2019s pleasing to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to change too much, we have a way we want to do things, an identity, and whether we play home or away we have to carry on that identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle Jets coach Mark Milligan said he was \u201cnot over the moon\u201d with the result. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ll take it, \u201d Milligan said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d love to control every game with the ball more, a little bit sloppy, but that\u2019s more down to the week off to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to adjust a few things at half time in terms of press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tie was never going to be decided tonight. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always in a game because we stay true to who we are.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The second leg at McDonald Jones Stadium will kick off at 7:40pm AEST on Saturday May 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/aleague-men-semi-final-sydney-fc-newcastle-jets-goals-highlights\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/aleague-men-semi-final-sydney-fc-newcastle-jets-goals-highlights\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match Report: Sydney FC 1-1 Newcastle Jets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MATCH HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1-1 first-leg semi-final draw has Sydney FC coach Patrick Kisnorbo optimistic about the direction of his team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[341,1264,1417,1418,1419,958,4916,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-8078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-a-league","9":"tag-a-league-men","10":"tag-a-leagues","11":"tag-almfeatured","12":"tag-almmatchreport","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-finals26","15":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}