Markus Babbel was encouraged by Western Sydney's second-half display as they earned their first away win since early November by beating Adelaide United 3-1.
Wanderers opened the scoring through Oriol Riera early on, but when Ryan Kitto equalised just before the break the coach felt he needed to make a change.
Now we want to have competition on the pitch and we want to try to get a result.
Markus Babbel
It paid off as goals from Roly Bonevacia and Abraham Majok secured the victory at Coopers Stadium.
Babbel, who saw keeper Vedran Janjetovic save Craig Goodwin's penalty in the first half, said he'd been concerned at what he'd seen after the opening spell.
"We were not playing the way we wanted to," added the coach. "We started quite well for 10-15 minutes but then the pressure was always higher and higher ... we were tactically doing the wrong things.
"I said to them we drop with our sixes too deep, we were nearly in a line with them and then they had no pressure in midfield ... Oriol and Roly ... had no help from our midfield, so we changed things a bit and it looked much better in the second half."
Whether his team can go on and challenge for a Finals Series spot remains to be seen, but Babbel said the players would gain confidence from back-to-back victories - they beat bottom side Central Coast last week.
"We want to get results this is also fair play to the other teams ... now we want to have competition on the pitch and we want to try to get a result," added the German coach. "There's so many games to go and we want to improve."
Western Sydney are 11/4 to win their next game against Perth Glory, who are 10/11 with the draw 11/4.
Wanderers are 14/1 to win 1-0.
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Markus Babbel was encouraged by Western Sydney's second-half display as they earned their first away win since early November by beating Adelaide United 3-1.
Wanderers opened the scoring through Oriol Riera early on, but when Ryan Kitto equalised just before the break the coach felt he needed to make a change.
Now we want to have competition on the pitch and we want to try to get a result.
Markus Babbel
It paid off as goals from Roly Bonevacia and Abraham Majok secured the victory at Coopers Stadium.
Babbel, who saw keeper Vedran Janjetovic save Craig Goodwin's penalty in the first half, said he'd been concerned at what he'd seen after the opening spell.
"We were not playing the way we wanted to," added the coach. "We started quite well for 10-15 minutes but then the pressure was always higher and higher ... we were tactically doing the wrong things.
"I said to them we drop with our sixes too deep, we were nearly in a line with them and then they had no pressure in midfield ... Oriol and Roly ... had no help from our midfield, so we changed things a bit and it looked much better in the second half."
Whether his team can go on and challenge for a Finals Series spot remains to be seen, but Babbel said the players would gain confidence from back-to-back victories - they beat bottom side Central Coast last week.
"We want to get results this is also fair play to the other teams ... now we want to have competition on the pitch and we want to try to get a result," added the German coach. "There's so many games to go and we want to improve."
Western Sydney are 11/4 to win their next game against Perth Glory, who are 10/11 with the draw 11/4.
Wanderers are 14/1 to win 1-0.
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Source: bet365.com