Watch: Melbourne Victory comically squander open goal breakaway

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Amusement from Australia on Friday, as Melbourne's derby ended in chaos

This, from the Melbourne derby, really is bad.

The A-League has been rising in quality for some time now, but moments like this do its reputation no good at all.

It's the eighth minute of injury time and, trailing 2-1, Melbourne City's goalkeeper is up for a corner. The ball does actually drop to him on the edge of the penalty box, but he inevitably makes a hash of it and Melbourne Victory breakaway towards an empty net.

A certain goal, right? Well...

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Not a moment James Troisi will care to see again.

TAKE. ANOTHER. TOUCH.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor

Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.