Polenz: I'm not a malicious player

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JEROME Polenz knows he has to watch his step from here on, but insists there is nothing malicious about him despite the storm over his two recent dangerous tackles.

After a raking challenge on Richard Garcia in the Sydney derby - and subsequent Twitter exchange with the Sydney FC forward - Polenz was even more widely condemned for a high lunge on Aber Mawil of Adelaide in the recent 2-1 victory.

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Both were wildly out of character for a player whose poise was a key part of the Wanderers' success last season. But speaking for the first time since referees director Ben Wilson said both tackles should have earned Polenz a red card, the German fullback insisted that neither had been a calculated act of aggression.

"That's football and I guess in one sense it's good that people have something to talk about," Polenz said wryly yesterday. "As a player I try to get into good positions, to read situations before they develop to deal with them in the best way.

"Sometimes though you can end up in a bad position and make a mistake in your tackling. That for me is what happened - I truly believe that anyone who knows me realises I am not a malicious player.

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"It happens sometimes that you mistime a tackle, but even when I fight hard as a player it is never with the intention of hurting them. As a team we fight hard but we fight fair."

Now Polenz's attention turns to Melbourne Victory on Saturday night, a side still finding its way after the dramatic change of head coach. "A new coach normally means big changes, but Kevin Muscat can definitely learn a lot from Ange Postecoglou," he said.

"He won't change a lot of the style, we can expect the same Victory as before. In the long term he might but that's not our concern. Don't forget that we also are a team in transition - this season we want to keep the ball better and progress our game, that takes time.

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"It always takes time to find rhythm when you want to change things but you can expect big things from the Wanderers as the season goes on."

Part of it has been the dislocation of Polenz's partnership down the right flank with Youssouf Hersi, the understanding they forged last season ruptured by the bruising that will keep Hersi out of tomorrow's game.

But Polenz is certain that the collective is far more than just one player - Hersi or any other. "Of course we link up well, but we have lots of options if he cannot play. We are the Wanderers, we are more than Youssouf Hersi or Shinji Ono or Jerome Polenz," he said.

Richard Garcia posted this picture of his injured leg on Twitter. Source: Supplied

"Shannon Cole came in last week and scored the winner, Brendon Santalab came in and did well too. It's true that we win as a team and lose as a team."

There is though more bad news for coach Tony opovic with striker Tomi Juric's knee injury keeping him out tomorrow along with Hersi, meaning Popovic must choose between Labinot Haliti, Brendon Santalab and Mark Bridge to lead the line.

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