Brisbane Roar blew a golden alternative to strengthen their A-League Ladies finals hopes, limping to a 3-Three draw with the Wellington Phoenix.
The Phoenix appeared to be heading for an additional defeat when Kate Taylor was despatched off and the Roar raced out to a 2-Zero lead inside half-an-hour at Brisbane’s AJ Kelly Park.
Shea Connors and Katrina Gorry had given the house aspect the benefit.
However Brisbane did not make their lead and numerical superiority rely, permitting the Phoenix to register three unanswered targets earlier than Larissa Crummer popped up with a face-saving 85th-minute equalizer.
The draw leaves the Roar in sixth spot – six factors adrift of the highest 4 – whereas Wellington stays all-time low after a seventh defeat in 10 video games.
The match had been pushed again 24 hours after the Phoenix’s flight out of Wellington was cancelled.
And the guests had been gradual out of the blocks as Connors was in a position to burst down the left flank to attain the opener after 14 minutes.
Connors’ tempo was inflicting the Kiwi outfit issues and Taylor introduced the Roar ahead down on the sting of the field when she threatened so as to add a second 13 minutes later.
Taylor was duly giving her marching orders and Gorry scored from the following free kick as the house aspect took management.
A protracted-range first-half free kick from Michaela Foster introduced Wellington again into the competition and a perception they may salvage one thing was solely enhanced when Milly Clegg weaved by way of a sea of ​​Roar defenders to complete previous goalkeeper Hensley Hancuff simply previous the hour mark.
Grace Wisnewski, who had cleared a Crummer effort off the road within the first half, then gave her aspect an unlikely lead with lower than 15 minutes of standard time remaining.
Brisbane threw our bodies ahead and it was Crummer who was in a position to flip and poke an effort past the attain of Wellington keeper Brianna Edwards to safe a draw.
Wellington thought that they had grabbed a winner by way of substitute Michaela Robertson in added time, just for the assistant referee to flag for offside.
