Irish midfielder Jay O’Shea turned the primary Roar participant to attain in six successive video games for the reason that nice Besart Berisha however Brisbane’s A-League finals hopes cling by a thread after a 2-2 draw with Wellington Phoenix on Sunday.
Desperate for a win at Eden Park within the battle for a top-six berth, the Roar not less than managed to salvage some extent due to a late Scott Neville equaliser
But with simply two rounds of the common season remaining, Brisbane will now should depend on different outcomes, in addition to their very own, to have any probability of taking part in finals soccer.
Roar captain Tom Aldred mentioned his aspect would “continue to believe”.
“By not winning today we’ve probably taken it out of our own hands,” Aldred informed Sky Sport New Zealand.
“We probably need a lot of our results to go our way, but while we’re still in the (finals) fight, we’ll continue to still hopefully push.
“We definitely need two wins out of our two (matches), and we’ll see what happens.”
The afternoon began nicely for the Roar, who took the lead in simply the eighth minute from the penalty spot after the Phoenix’s Brazilian midfielder Yan Sasse fouled Brisbane attacker Jez Lofthouse.
O’Shea calmly slotted the spot kick dwelling to attain his ninth aim of the season and match the efforts of Berisha from the 2011-12 season when the A-League legend discovered the again of the web in six straight matches.
However, Lofthouse later turned the villain when his foul on David Ball led to the Phoenix equalising from the spot within the thirty fifth minute.
Oskar Zawada was the scorer, with the Polish marksman netting his 14th of what has been a memorable debut A-League season.
Jan Sasse gave the Phoenix within the 56th minute after a intelligent build-up that concerned Zawada and former Roar star Kosta Barbarouses.
The woodwork was then to come back to Brisbane’s rescue within the seventieth and 71st minutes, with Phoenix ahead David Ball denied by the put up 3 times, together with twice from the identical shot.
The Roar made probably the most of their luck, with veteran defender Neville heading dwelling an 82nd-minute nook from O’Shea to make sure the factors had been shared.
Aldred mentioned Wellington’s first-half penalty “killed” the Roar and that it was a “poor” determination by referee Stephen Lucas to award the hosts the spot kick.
“I don’t want to comment too much on referees but for me he wanted to even the game up,” the Brisbane skipper mentioned.
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