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Tim Cahill has brought success to Melbourne City at long last, scoring the only goal of the FFA Cup final against Sydney FC as the A-League upstarts claimed the first trophy in their seven-year history.Cahill headed home Ivan Franjics cross on 53 minutes to earn City the prize before hobbling off with a knee injury shortly after.Transformed by the millions provided by cashed-up owners City Football Group, the triumph showed the sleeping giants of Australian football have woken up.City were right up for the AAMI Park decider, played between the A-Leagues top two sides in front of a record FFA Cup crowd of 18,751 on Wednesday night.Coach John van t Schips ambitious attacking football came with a ruthless streak.Within minutes of an impeccably-observed silence to honour the victims of the Colombian plane crash that killed an entire Brazilian football team, the battle was on.Citys Luke Brattan brought the fight, scything down Michael Zullo in front of an outraged Sydney bench.Despite Milos Ninkovic shoving Fernando Brandan to the ground in a near 20-man melee, Brattan was the only man carded.The heat remained after the brawl, with 10 fouls in the opening 15 minutes.Sydney FC were getting into dangerous spaces but were unable to cut through.Graham Arnolds side ended the half with 18 balls into Citys penalty box, but only one shot - to the menacing Bobo.Bruno Fornaroli looked the man most likely to create something for City, and teed up Brandan only for the Argentinian to volley wide.After the break, the 36-year-old struck.Franjics perfect delivery provided the platform, and Cahill rose in his indomitable style, freeing himself of marker Matt Jurman to head past Danny Vukovic.He didnt last much longer.Cahill appeared to hyperextend his left knee under the weight of Josh Brillantes tackle from behind, lasting just a few more minutes before requiring a substitution.I think Ill be alright, he said after the match, Ill patch myself up and try and go again on the weekend.My feelings are amazing.This was not just another game. This was everything.Van t Schip paid tribute to his super striker.Tim this evening was fighting, he was not even playing one of his best games but you know that he has moment that in him, he said.The moment he had to be there, he was there.If you win, you have to celebrate ... so well have a drink and well have a laugh.The Sky Blues - playing without key defender Alex Wilkinson (virus) - chased the game and had their moments.Bobos header required a goal-line clearance from Michael Jaksobsen, while Osama Maliks injury-time tumble with Alex Brosque might have brought a late free kick.It wasnt to be for Graham Arnolds side, which must wait at least six months longer to break their own seven-year trophy drought.Arnold suggested he knew his fate when Cahills header went in, saying that was an occasion where the headlines were written yesterday.It was an even contest and youve got to congratulate Melbourne City on winning their first trophy, he said. Deion Sanders Cowboys Jersey . 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It was held to 234 yards, needed help from the defense and special teams to produce two touchdowns, and allowed the Steelers to get on the board first when left tackle Ereck Flowers was called for holding in the end zone.It would be easy to say it was simply a bad game for the offense. Its been the norm lately.When we see the film, we see there are opportunities there, Ben McAdoo said Monday when asked about the offensive problems. Again, the unforced errors and the setbacks when youre playing inconsistent football on the offensive side, theyre hard to overcome. Thats where we are right now.Manning made the biggest mistake Sunday, trying to squeeze a pass to tight end Larry Donnell on second-and-4 from the Steelers 9-yard line with New York down 5-0. Linebacker Lawrence Timmons intercepted the pass and returned it 58 yards to set up another Pittsburgh touchdown.It was a big mistake and New York never recovered. The Giants defense gave the offense chances, but it failed to capitalize.Right now we believe we have the players and the scheme to make a run at this thing, McAdoo said. We know we need to get back to work, we need to get some pads on this week if thats the smart thing and the right thing to do based on the injury report and player health, well do that. We need to play good football on Sunday.The Giants have a huge game this weekend with Dallas (11-1) coming to MetLife Stadium. If the Cowboys win, they clinch the NFC East.New York still has the best record in the race for the wild-card spot, but Tampa Bay (7-5), Washington (6-5-1), Minnesota (6-6) and Green Bay (6-6) are close with four games left.In addition to Dallas, the Giants also havve games with Detroit (8-4), Philadelphia (5-7) and Washington.ddddddddddddIts not an easy schedule for a team struggling on offense.In the last six games, the Giants are averaging 290.6 yards and 21.5 points. During that span the team has scored 18 touchdowns. Two have been by the defense and five other TDs have come on drives of 35 yards or less set up by takeaways by Steve Spagnuolos unit.A big kickoff return by Bobby Rainey on Sunday set up a meaningless 52-yard drive that Manning ended with a TD pass to Sterling Shepard.Offensive drives, though, have been few and far between. There have been eight touchdown drives of 67 yards or more in the last six games. There were two other drives between 50 and 60 yards.Against the Steelers, the Giants rushed for 56 yards, and their 178 net passing yards were a season low. Manning finished 24 of 39 for 195 yards, his second consecutive sub-200 yard game.While Odell Beckham Jr. had 10 receptions for 100 yards and a touchdown, Victor Cruz was not targeted once. The week before Shepard was ignored in the game against the Browns.I think theres a heightened sense of awareness that we need to get better and we need to improve and we need to keep working at it, McAdoo said.Game notes McAdoo had no update on the groin injury that knocked out DE Jason Pierre-Paul in the first half. ... DT Johnathan Hankins (quad) is sore, while WR/returner Dwayne Harris has an ankle injury. ... After the game Beckham said he didnt want to see referee Terry McAulays crew working another one of his teams games this season. McAdoo would not comment on that. However, he said: We have a process to gain clarification on calls that are made during the course of a game. Were going to get plenty of use out of that process this week.---For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and -http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '