Thought we were in for a long day after the first 20mins. An amazing amount of finger pointing and blame game playing from us in that first 20.
A lucky goal changed everything and there was no looking back after that.
Some days the bounce of the ball goes your way others days it doesn’t.
Well done Burnsy.
Well done to Burnsy, indeed. Our first hat-trick ever, apparently.
However, I still wonder what happened to the JamTards. Yes, our first goal was lucky, as you say. We were badly under the pump until then, although Doyle was actually pretty solid and I would credit him with preventing a couple of early threats down his flank.
But I can't really say that anything after that first goal was a matter of luck. While Burns missed a tap in soon afterwards, there was a brilliant setup by Krishna leading to that chance - not really a matter of luck. Also, there was no doubt that he would miss either the penalty or the re-take. I kind of expected him to ask the ref if he'd like him to take it again third time! So if you exclude that single luck factor for the first goal, we might have won by 2:1 but maybe not at all, such influence that single event (bad MC backpass) had on the game.
Should a game between two good teams pivot on a single event like that? I don't think so. Maybe if it was an injury to a key player (like Riera last year) early in the half, but not a "lucky" goal. So maybe this says more about our relative quality (both teams).
This why I really liked Brisbane who battled all day against Perth at home and were down to a first half goal for most of the game, and Henrique equalised around 80th minute I think. I thought this outcome for the Roar was a mark of a very good team that is going through a bad patch. Brisbane were/are way below Melb City on the ladder, but on the day I would rate them higher, comparing both their (1) relative "spirit" on the day, and also (2) the relative quality of the opposition (no shame to admit Perth are better team than us so far this season, they've proven it twice).