Robbie Kruse’s A-League return was placed on maintain on Friday night time as Brisbane Roar’s dismal kind continued with 2-1 loss to the Central Coast Mariners at Kayo Stadium.
Kruse had been anticipated to make his Roar return after just lately rejoining the membership the place he began his A-League profession in 2007.
However, following the beginning of his second youngster, the previous Socceroos attacker was given the night time off by Brisbane coach Warren Moon.
It’s a choice that Moon might very effectively remorse because the Roar once more struggled in assault.
Their solely purpose of the sport got here through a penalty, with Irish midfielder Jay O’Shea equalising with a twenty third minute spot after the Mariners’ Brazilian attacker Marco Tulio had fouled Carlo Armiento.
Tulio had given the Mariners the lead simply 4 minutes earlier, netting from shut vary after Brisbane did not correctly clear a nook from new Central Coast signing James McGarry.
The Mariners had an opportunity to regain the lead within the thirty third minute, however a lot to the Roar’s reduction, Jason Cummings’ shot hit the bottom of the publish.
However, the Mariners ultimately received their winner within the 69th minute, with referee Jonathan Barreiro awarding his second penalty of the night time, this time for a foul from Roar defender Scott Neville on Mariners’ centre-back Dan Hall.
Beni N’Kololo stepped as much as rating from the spot and safe the Mariners their first win in 4 matches.
The Roar at the moment are with no win of their previous six matches and may very well be backside of the ladder by the top of the spherical relying on different outcomes this weekend.
“It’s a bad result for us,” Roar star O’Shea instructed Paramount+.
“We haven’t won now for six games. It’s not good. We need to try to get something right.
“We need to get out on the training pitch and try to rectify it, and get ourselves back up the league,
“It’s very tight. A couple of wins in a row can get us right back in the mix. We can’t give up yet.”
New Roar signing, former Serbian worldwide striker Stefan Scepovic, got here on as an alternative, however he did not make an influence in his A-League debut.
Mariners goalscorer N’Kololo stated it was a decent contest and was thrilled to be returning to Gosford with the three factors after the staff had solely arrived in Queensland on Friday morning after their scheduled flight on Thursday afternoon was cancelled.
Originally revealed as Brisbane Roar’s poor kind continues with loss to Central Coast Mariners
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
