{"id":9645,"date":"2026-05-12T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:31:07","slug":"adelaide-old-boy-lachie-brook-ready-to-fire-auckland-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/9645\/","title":{"rendered":"Adelaide old boy Lachie Brook ready to fire Auckland to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland FC attacker Lachie Brook may have come through the Adelaide United system but says he\u2019s ready to inflict some pain on his old side this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Knights head to Coopers Stadium on Friday night with their semi-final tie with Adelaide United finally balanced after a tense encounter in the first leg at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/isuzu-ute-a-league-men-finals-series-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE ISUZU UTE A-LEAGUE FINALS SERIES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former Adelaide United player, Brook scored the opening goal of the game against his old side before Reds youngster Harry Crawford bagged the equaliser to set up a mouthwatering clash under the lights on Friday night at Coopers Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>ROOS NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/melbourne-city-pair-join-socceroos-pre-world-cup-camp-in-usa-behich-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne City pair join Socceroos pre-World Cup camp in USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the 25-year-old it promises to be a special occasion as he comes up against the side who handed him his first start in the Isuzu UTE A-League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big full circle moment,\u201d said Brook when speaking on Tuesday morning ahead of the Friday night fixture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually had no idea about that before the game (it) made me feel quite old, even though I\u2019m only 25 but nine years ago, it\u2019s crazy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously it was a cool stat, but yeah, looking forward now to the next game. It\u2019s almost not a bad thing going in at 0-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think sometimes if you go up with a 1-0 lead and you go into the next game, sometimes you can sort of change your mindset. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think for us now, it\u2019s same mindset as before. It\u2019s a must win game for us. We know that we\u2019re one win away from the Grand Final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These two sides have contest five matches since Auckland FC entered the Isuzu UTE A-League and it\u2019s the Black Knights who have recorded the only win; a 2-1 victory earlier this season, with the other four encounters between the two sides ended all square.<\/p>\n<p>HE SAID WHAT? <a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/he-said-what-a-leagues-coaches-react-to-semi-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A-Leagues coaches react to semi-final first legs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re positive,\u201d added Brook, who says the side have also been practising penalties this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that we played quite well. Obviously we conceded that goal. I think the momentum sort of shifted. We had a few of the injuries go down. It wasn\u2019t ideal, and it does (mean we) probably made subs earlier than what we wanted to. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut yeah we\u2019re still confident and the feeling around the camp has been good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland FC attacker Lachie Brook may have come through the Adelaide United system but says he\u2019s ready to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1264,1417,395,1418,4916,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-9645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-a-league-men","9":"tag-a-leagues","10":"tag-adelaide","11":"tag-almfeatured","12":"tag-finals26","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}