23/05/2026
Rosebank United 6 Kildrum United 7
Roman ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
Findlay ⚽️
Kieran ⚽️
Hayden ⚽️
What an incredible game, credit to both teams, and another great example of the battling spirit in this team. They took knock after knock in this game and just kept giving more and more and more. Going 1-0, 3-1, 4-3, 5-4 and 6-5 up and being pegged back every time before finally winning 7-6 in the final minute - a crazy game of football!
We started brilliantly, going 1-0 up inside 2 minutes with a brilliant Roman goal after a couple of keepie uppies he hammered it into the net. A few minutes later the first of quite a few frustrating decisions let Rosebank back into it, a questionable free-kick was fired in, Seth made a great save but the striker followed in to tap in.
We then went straight back up the pitch and Findlay grabbed his 50th competitive goal of the season - a brilliant achievement - and it was a trademark goal. He closed down the defender, won the ball, took it round him and slotted it into the net. Roman added a third to go 3-1 up and then credit to Rosebank they managed to score their next 2 attacks to go 3-3. Roman completed his hat-trick to go 4-3 up before a last minute equaliser was knocked in after the striker controlled the ball with his hand. 4-4 at half time in a breathless first half. The boys came off very frustrated, a few poor refereeing calls and a few mistakes at the back undone a lot of the excellent attacking football we played.
Into the second half, Roman didn't waste much time before smashing a tremendous strike into the top corner from 25 yards to put us 5-4 up. Rosebank came back again to 5-5 before Kieran followed up a rebound to nod in to go 6-5 and then the game got really contentious. The Rosebank striker bundled through two players and held off a shoulder to shoulder, ran clean through and unimpeded pinged a great effort which Seth made a tremendous save to deny. No claims for a penalty - none - but the referee took it on himself to bring it back for a foul and give the penalty despite clearly playing advantage. This sparked a lot of frustration in the team and the match went to 6-6. Seth then had to make a great double save to keep it level and the referee called 30 seconds to go and on the attack we went.
Trialist Jacob went on a run down the left and was fouled as he cut inside. Hayden had been practicing free-kicks for weeks in training and asked to take it. Up he stepped and sent a lovely strike high across the goalie for a brilliant winner. Scenes.
Two very difficult games against two very good teams in the last week and after a coming back from 4-2 down last week against Alloa to then get a last minute winner after being pegged back several times today showed the strength of character and team spirit in this group of boys. We've had a very good second half to the season and we're all looking forward to seeing what this group can achieve next year.
