GCU v CCM

3-1 GCU, LOL

GCU have done what we failed to do on Saturday, and that's to bring a football team to the game

f**k sakes ccm not looking that flash but makes me sick we played so badly against them. If gold coast can beat them.....

Game on. Great finish from Parrot man

Ah disregard last post

Ibini with a thumper to make it 3-2

My man - Bernie Abeanie.

Halloran's awesome.

This is an awesome game. So entertaining

"IT'S WONDERFUL FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Kwasnik   

Kwasnik 3-3

All on again, what a game

What happens when Ibini goes for a swim in the Red Sea?

Stevo2012-02-22 23:31:21

Bojic is a haak

My mum would have kittens with the language used by the modern-day footballer.

20 minutes is starting to look like a loooong time for GCU to hang on.

Bet even Brisbane roar fans are hoping Gcu can knock over ccm

It would help their chance at the premiership

MacGlinchey looking good for Jamaica.

So much man love in the commentary box

CCM slowly taking back control.

"If fairness Robbie, you were one [a wonderful player]".

This game had another goal in it I feel

Crowd less than 1000 according to a GCU guy I know whose son is at the game

MacGlinchey to take the AW set pieces.

McGlinchey is awesome, someone please explain why we never approached Celtic before CCM did?

GCU kids are doing well. Halloran is class.

Crowd must be so small seeing you can hear the players so clearly.

"f**kING GET OVER THERE" .. So funny how loud the coach is in this ghost town of a stadium

What a game. Kudos to GCU, great way to end a difficult week

Good game,

Disappointing it was a draw...

If they could keep them together, they have the base for a pretty good side. They might be last on the table, but they are not the worst side in the comp.

We got a stream thats still going I wanna see post match

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/6466014/Gold-Coast-nearly-stun-A-League-top-dogs

One of the smallest crowds in A-League history almost witnessed one of its biggest upsets as the lowly Gold Coast threatened to overcome a week of off-field dramas to stun ladder leaders Central Coast at Skilled Park.

In the end, the Mariners saved face with two second half goals to salvage a 3-3 draw and stay six points clear on the table.

Officials posted the match attendance as 1,141, the smallest to watch the Gold Coast play.

The turn out was a few hundred more than the A-League's all-time lowest crowd of 1,003 who watched Brisbane play North Queensland when the clash was switched from Suncorp Stadium during the 2011 floods.

In a bizarre 72 hours, United's billionaire owner Clive Palmer dumped foundation coach Miron Bleiberg and then took aim at Football Federation Australia, saying he had no confidence in its administration.

The club's week from hell looked initially to have taken its toll.

Interim coach Mike Mulvey could only watch on in angst after Mariners sharpshooter Adam Kwasnik slotted a soft goal in just the fourth minute of the clash.

But things quickly changed.

United levelled at 1-1 after nine minutes following a careless challenge by Rostyn Griffiths on Golgol Mebrahtu after he raced into the box only to lose the ball before being brought down.

Teenager Chris Arnold stepped up to the spot and made no mistake, driving the penalty into the net.

Another teenager, Ben Halloran, put United ahead 2-1 with a contender for goal of the season in the 17th minute.

Halloran carved between four defenders before working around Mariners skipper Alex Wilkinson and beating United keeper Justin Pasfield with a low right-foot strike that was just out of his reach.

The home side took the one goal advantage to the break.

Palmer was waiting for his players in the dressing room after they left the field and whatever extra motivation he gave them appeared to work as Pasfield was forced to make two spectacular diving saves in the first six minute after the break.

A massive upset seemed likely when the underdogs went 3-1 up after Mitch Cooper snuck a shot past Pasfield in the 56th minute.

However goals to Bernie Ibini (59th minute) and a second to Kwasnik in the 65th minute set the scene for a tense finish.            

Mulvey said three of his players came off the field saying they were "sorry" after failing to secure what would have been an incredible win in the circumstances.
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"We were 1-0 down after five minutes, we could easily have folded but the boys showed character and belief," said Mulvey.

"When they got 3-1 up, I think they saw the promised land.

"They coughed up two goals and from then on they were just hanging on.

Mulvey confirmed Palmer had spoken to his players in the dresssing room at half time.

"Clive was beside himself after their first half effort and just wanted to express his appreciation to the boys," he said.

"He said a few words and then sat back and listened to the technical stuff."

Mariners coach Graham Arnold said it would have been a "crime" had the Gold Coast not got something from their performance.

"Full credit to them. When you're living with adversity, playing for contracts and careers ... I can't give them a big enough rap," he said.

- AAP

George Costanza2012-02-23 13:37:20

1141 Official figure. Must be close to all time ever A League record

That is so low, I heard a rumor that they exaggerate figures could be wrong though.