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Bolstered by a remarkable bicycle kick goal by Ariath Piol, winger Marin Jakolis has scored late to fire Macarthur to a 2-1 win over Sydney FC.
Substitute Patrick Wood looked certain to have salvaged a point for the Sky Blues after equalising in the 88th minute but a late Jakolis goal nabbed all three for the visitors at Allianz Stadium on Sunday.
Enjoying the numerical advantage after new Socceroo Hayden Matthews was given his marching orders before the break, substitute Ariath Piol drew first blood for the Bulls with an astounding bicycle kick in the 73rd minute.
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Matthews had been shown the yellow card twice for fouls on Jakolis, forcing Sydney to play with 10-man for the second time in four matches.
Macarthur almost got off to a horror start when goalkeeper Filip Kurto slipped attempting to save, allowing Sydney’s Patryk Klimala to find the back of the net easily in the fifth minute.
Luckily for the Bulls, the Polish striker was offside.
Piol then joined the fray after attacker Jake Hollman went down after just 25 minutes with an oblique injury following a collision with Matthews.
Macarthur are already without winger Jed Drew, who was a late withdrawal with a calf injury.
But the early scare was enough to wake up the visitors, who should’ve entered the halftime with a goal were it not for Jakolis’s wastefulness up front.
Tempers threatened to boil over in the 56th minute when Sydney’s Anas Ouahim, having fouled Valere Germain, put his hand on the back of the Macarthur skipper’s head to exchange words.
Germain responded with the same act, before the Bulls’ Kealey Adamson intervened by hugging Ouahim out of the squabble.
Adamson then broke away from the pack in the 69th minute to deliver a quality pass for Germain, who sent the ball straight to goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne.
The ball bounced off Redmayne back to Germain, but Wood diffused the threat with a desperate kick out of play.
With momentum on Macarthur’s side, Brattan threaded the ball nicely for Ivan Vujica, who set up Piol’s goal-of-the-year contender in the 73rd minute.
Wood levelled the scores but Jakolis finally found reward on the scoreboard seven minutes into added time.
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