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Football: Playoffs HB Utd's key goal

By Anendra Singh
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6 Mar, 2015 04:30 PM3 mins to read

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Sean Lovemore returns from a yellow-card match suspension. PHOTO/FILE

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THE ICC World Cup playoff contenders can't resist the temptation to consider permutations of who they are likely to face but football coach Brett Angell isn't going down that track right now.

The judicious will argue a second or third placing on the ASB Premiership ladder will mean Hawke's Bay United will face Team Wellington in the semifinals as opposed to Fifa Club World Cup upstarts Auckland City perched on the top rung.

The Bay franchise team drew 2-2 with the Wellingtonians at Park Island, Napier, in November before succumbing 3-1 away a month later.

Auckland City have beaten Bay United twice, the second time with some conviction to restart their engine after creating global headlines in their campaign on the global stage in Morocco just before Christmas.

In a 3pm kick off at Bluewater Stadium tomorrow, Bay United host seventh-placed WaiBOP United who are out of the running for a playoffs berth.

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Third-placed Waitakere United, who play Auckland tomorrow, will be hoping WaiBOP will take a nothing-to-lose attitude in upsetting the hosts.

"I don't think about Waitakere and don't care what they do," Angell said yesterday.

Frankly his major concern is making the cull because that'll denote they have accomplished the mission they had outlined at the start of the season as new campaigners after the mass exodus of 90 per cent of the previous squad.

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It doesn't bother him whether they face Auckland or Team Wellington in the semifinals.

"If it takes us into the playoffs good. If not the evaluation process begins on why not."

Angell said if Bay United beat WaiBOP and their last pool game against Canterbury United the following Sunday in Napier then they need not be looking over their shoulders because it'll take care of the permutations.

"They [Waitakere] need us to fall down but what Waitakere do has no bearing on us."

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He felt the previous game against WaiBOP had posed some difficulties for them despite coming away with three points in the 4-2 victory.

Sean Lovemore returns from a match suspension but fellow striker Fane Morgan (knee) Facundo Barbero (ankle) are under an injury cloud.

The Ross Haviland-skippered Bay have won four games on the trot at home and want to finish on that note with the last two games.

Wellington Phoenix semifinal hopes are in their hands ahead of today's clash with the Dragons United at Memorial Park, Petone.

Southern United host Wanderers Soccer Club in Dunedin as the hosts look to end a horror run of results.

Wellington have a bye.

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