Queensland Football Show - Episode 30

And speaking of that under-23s penalty shootout, that did delay the qualifying final in the NPL men's between Lions SC and Peninsular Power, with Lions SC and Gold Coast Knights going the distance in their under-23s elimination final.

I think Knights ended up getting the better of it in the end, but that did delay the kickoff between Lions SC and Peninsular Power, which ended up being a 4-1 win for Lions SC.

Early goal for Peninsular Power did give them a lot of hope before Lions SC did what they've done over the course of the season and just really put on a nice showing there, particularly in the second half.

Yes, by delay, it was 45 minutes.

The game kicked off at 5.45pm local.

It was scheduled for 5pm, so that's how much the 23's game took into that account.

But yes, that only took 38 seconds for there to be a score in the main game with Nye Joseph scoring for potential power to give them a 1-0 lead very, very early, which we thought would be If there's any way that potential power was going to get over the two previous losses this month to Lions, they had to start hard first.

As Kurt did say on one of our other shows, that the record for Lions, when they score first, is absolutely phenomenal.

So it was very, very important that the potential power did get on the board early.

Certainly was important for Peninsular Plaza.

They did get on the board early.

And as you said, that stat about Lions being very good after scoring first, that didn't prove to be important here for them in the end because goals from Luke Broderick, Blair Ponting, Jackson Hart-Phillips and Jerson Lagos did give them the 4-1 win after that opening goal for Nia Joseph, as you mentioned, after just 38 seconds.

And Again, there's a lot of familiarity between these two sides, isn't there? They played just a weekend ago in the Queens.

They played a couple of weeks before that in the league.

So there's not a lot of secrets between these two sides having played three times in five weeks.

So it's no surprise that these two sides are starting to really understand how each other play.

And Lions, once they did get that equalised, they did go on with this game really impressively, didn't they?

They did, but there's a very, very key moment after the equalizer from Luke Broderick in the 10th minute.

So they only held out for nine minutes, Peninsular Power.

And then the game got very, very even.

Both sides have been trying to sort of almost shadow box in a way, sort of in a midfield battle.

And then a late goal in the first half.

In fact, in stoppage time from Blair Ponting as well.

Sort of really changed the dynamic of the game.

And one all, I think, Peninsular Power would have certainly sort of taken their chances at the half and then the second half coming out.