{"id":13741,"date":"2025-05-27T05:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13741"},"modified":"2025-05-27T05:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:58:39","slug":"football-disallowed-auckland-fc-goal-doesnt-sit-well-with-steve-corica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13741","title":{"rendered":"Football: Disallowed Auckland FC goal ‘doesn’t sit well’ with Steve Corica"},"content":{"rendered":"

The disappointment for Auckland FC and coach Steve Corica is going to linger for a long time.<\/p>\n

The A-League men’s premiership winners fell at the season’s penultimate hurdle on Saturday night, when\u00a0they lost 2-0 to Melbourne Victory<\/a>\u00a0before 29,000 fans at Mt Smart Stadium in the second leg of their semifinal tie.<\/p>\n

Auckland FC just needed a draw to go through, but it is the Victory – with a 2-1 aggregate score – who will play Melbourne City in the grand final this Saturday.<\/p>\n

Corica railed after the game about\u00a0a ruling that denied them a goal<\/a>\u00a0after Logan Rogerson headed a Guillermo May high cross into the net in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n

It appeared that the linesman had judged that May’s cross had drifted out of play before the goal.<\/p>\n

“The referees made a bad decision -the linesman has and so has the VAR, whoever is in charge up there because that would have obviously helped us get back into the game,” Corica said.<\/p>\n

His attitude had not changed when he spoke to RNZ’s\u00a0Morning Report\u00a0<\/i>on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Pretty disappointed still, just the way the game finished with the disallowed goal. For us, it probably would have changed the game.<\/p>\n

“I think it would have helped us. Obviously goals change the momentum of games and also if we scored that, the game would have gone to extra time and I think we were looking the stronger of the teams to finish well.”<\/p>\n

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That said, he acknowledged Victory’s performance.<\/p>\n

“Melbourne were a good team, they obviously deserve to be in the final now. It’s just a little bit disappointing with that disallowed goal, it doesn’t sit too well for me.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be a long off-season I suppose, thinking about that too much.<\/p>\n

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Auckland FC’s head coach Steve Corica during the A-League men’s second leg semifinal against Melbourne Victory.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Shane Wenzlick \/ www.photosport.nz<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Overall I am really proud of the players and all the staff, it’s been an incredible season for us winning the premiership in our first year. But we probably finished one game short, I think.”<\/p>\n

Corica did not feel that just needing a draw to make the grand final affected the players’ thinking.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think so, that wasn’t our mindset going into the game. I don’t think we were at our very best, I think they changed a little bit, their structure, which they hadn’t done all season. I think that was a little bit harder for us to break them down – they went more defensive, so they were quite solid, and we were finding it tough to get into good areas and create a lot of chances.<\/p>\n

“That is why that disallowed goal would have been so important for us – because it would have helped us and momentum would have changed, and we would have had a very good opportunity to move forward into a grand final.<\/p>\n

“But that’s in hindsight now. It is hard to take but I suppose that is football, sometimes you get the luck go your way and sometimes you don’t.<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointment, the club had plenty to celebrate in its inaugural season.<\/p>\n

“We’ve broken a lot of records, won the premiership in our first season, we have had over 200,000 supporters come through the gates, that’s amazing really, I think we are the highest crowd in the A-League,” Corica said.<\/p>\n

“The derbies have been amazing as well this season. And I have told the players and the staff that I am really proud of what they have achieved in their first year. It’s never easy to build a squad and win a premiership in your first year.<\/p>\n

“Our aim was to get into the grand final and win that as well – that is going to have to be on hold until next year.<\/p>\n

“Maybe that is a real motivation to go one better next year.”<\/p>\n

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