Adelaide coach Guillermo Amor was banished to the stands and charged with violent conduct after protesting a goal in his side’s 3-1 loss to Perth Glory in Friday night’s A-League clash at nib Stadium.
Amor was left fuming after Andy Keogh’s first goal was allowed to stand in the 67th minute despite Adelaide goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic being floored in a heavy clash with Rostyn Griffiths.
Galekovic got both hands to the floating ball, but it instantly spilt loose as Griffiths, who was attempting a header, clattered into him,
The ball fell to Keogh, who tapped in from close range to give Glory a 2-1 lead.
Amor angrily debated the goal with the referees.
And he was given his marching orders after touching fourth official Adam Fielding on the back of the arm in a bid to get his attention.
As he walked to the tunnel, Amor raised his drink bottle to Glory fans who were taunting him.
“My problem is the language,” Amor said of the incident that saw him banished to the stands.
“When you don’t speak good, some language, normally you use the hands, and the movement. And this is normal.”
Things went from bad to worse for Adelaide just minutes after Amor’s exit when Jordan O’Doherty was shown his second yellow card for a studs-up challenge.
A clearly frustrated O’Doherty punched a brick wall as he made his way through the tunnel.
In a spiteful match, Keogh suffered a cut lip in the dying minutes after copping a stray elbow from no-nonsense Adelaide midfielder Iacopo La Rocca.
Keogh had the last laugh though scoring a fine diving header in the last play of the match to make it 3-1.
The win lifted Glory into third spot, while defending champions Adelaide remain dead last on the table with just two points to show from seven rounds.
Glory coach Kenny Lowe said he understood Amor’s frustrations at Keogh’s first goal.
“I’ve seen them given as a free-kick before,” Lowe said.
“If I was in his position, I’d be screaming blue murder.”
Griffiths told Fox Sports his intentions for going for the ball were pure.
“A lot of times that would be given as a free-kick to the goalkeeper, they’re a protected species at times,” he said.
“But I didn’t deliberately try to hurt him or anything.”
Adelaide created the better chances in a first half that featured four yellow cards.
Glory defender Josh Risdon saved the day in the 20th minute when he sprinted back to shut down O’Doherty’s surge into the box.
But Risdon was looking for a hole to hide in just two minutes later when his attempt to clear Tarek Elrich’s dangerous square ball ended in an own goal.
Elrich’s pass took a slight deflection off Glory defender Rhys Williams’ outstretched boot, before bouncing into Risdon’s leg and into the net.
The setback seemed to spark Glory into action, and Griffiths sent the 10,011 strong crowd into raptures when he slammed his long-range strike into the bottom left-hand corner in the 25th minute to equalise.
Adelaide suffered a blow in the 57th minute when striker Sergio Guardiola limped off with a leg injury.
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