Another week, another remarkable display from 20-year-old Adrian Segecic.
The Sydney FC rising star continues to impress in a breakout Isuzu UTE A-League season and on Saturday night, the Sky Blues young gun scored two stunners in a stellar first-half performance against league leaders Auckland FC to draw level with Archie Goodwin atop the Golden Boot leaderboard on 12 goals.
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Segecic was deployed from the start in the 2-2 draw; regularly utilised as a substitute by head coach Ufuk Talay this season, Segecic has made the most of his minutes with his 12 goals coming in just over 1,000 minutes of match minutes. Fellow Golden Boot leader Archie Goodwin has scored the same amount of goals in more than 1,300 match minutes.
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Segecic has been a substitute in 11 of his 22 appearances this season, leading former A-Leagues strikers Alex Brosque and Roy O’Donovan to debate why Talay hasn’t started the young forward more regularly throughout the campaign.
“As Harper (Network 10 co-commentator Andy Harper) said, it’s ‘The Segecic Show’,” Brosque said at half-time of Sydney’s 2-2 draw with Auckland on Saturday night.
“It’s incredible, what he did with those first two goals, the way he took them, the confidence he’s got at the moment.
“He (Harper) said after he scored one of them: no one can stop him at the moment, and he’s not wrong.”
“I feel like he should be playing every single week,” O’Donovan added. “I don’t see a reason why he shouldn’t be.
“He scores goals like this, and you’re thinking to yourself: how can you leave him out? It’s such a clean strike, he’s such a confident player.”
Brosque replied: “It’s a hard one. The amount of times he’s come off the bench and had an impact and scored decisive goals, he’s almost – as harsh as it is – done it to himself a little bit.
“Uffie knows he can rely on him to come on and save him at times, or come up with a bit of quality when it’s needed.”
