Unbelievably Bad
By: Ben | September 4th, 2009
Just when I thought Glory had broken the duck and got something away from home, goalkeeper Tando Velaphi produced an unbelievable howler to gift the Mariners the points on Friday night.
Central Coast beat Perth 2-1 tonight in Canberra, after the Mariners went ahead from a set-piece Alex Wilkinson goal before Glory received a get-out-of-jail card when Brad Porter handballed in the box to offer Mile Sterjovski the equaliser.
But right at the death, when it seemed Glory might be the more likely to grab the points, Velaphi misreads the dewy pitch and sees a simple ball bounce over his head allowing the Mariners in for the winner.
It was comical, hapless and awful. Somehow, Glory seem to find a way to lose away from home. It’s awful. We were gifted an equaliser yet still couldn’t hold on. Purely awful. We won’t go anywhere near winning the title this season.
The performance in itself wasn’t too bad. We played okay at times and looked the more likely side in the first-half although the Mariners converted from a dead-ball situation. But we had them covered otherwise. Branko Jelic looked impressive and hit the crossbar in a luckless first-half.
In the second stanza, we dropped off a bit although so did the Mariners. It was rather dull until Porter handballed in the box and Sterjovski scored after his penalty was saved straight back to him.
Despite that fortuitous sequence of events, luck went against us as Wayne Srhoj hit the crossbar before Velaphi blew it. Somehow they find a way to lose. Awful.
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When all else fails, I blame gypsies. It’s always the gypsies’ fault.
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Lol muchly
Yer I went to the game (bit disappointed about the crowd, but meh), and they were actually really unlucky. As you said they hit the post twice, and were pretty unlucky with the goal in the 89th. So damm for Perth…Posted from
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