Albion Park coach Paul Carter admits you can throw the form guide out when it comes to Tarrawanna.
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What's to be made of the Blueys' 5-nil demolition job of the White Eagles in May, only for Albion Park to respond with a crushing 4-1 at Tarrawanna Oval a month ago?
They meet again on Sunday for finals survival, after Park fell 2-nil to Corrmal and Tarrawanna endured a penalty shoot-out win over Wollongong United.
"It's hard to read much out of it," Carter said.
"They were very good in the first game, we got a lot of things right last time, so hopefully we can take a bit of that in Sunday.
"But it's a different contest now, with everything on the line and they will take confidence out of beating Wollongong United.
"If it's nil-all after 80 minutes, it might be in our favour after they played extra-time, but sometimes wins like that give you a run of adrenaline and could make them very hard to beat."
One-all at full-time, Tarrawanna led through Rick Goodchild in the first half of extra-time, only for Matthew McNab to equalise and send it to a shoot-out.
Talented teen Nic Tomasiello then nailed the winning penalty to send the Blueys through.
Corrimal will meet premiers Wollongong Olympic for a spot in the grand final, after Rangers win over Park.
Tim Wylie and Van Elia scored during a five-minute first-half blitz.
"We just didn't play to our standard and maybe that's credit to Corrimal, they had a plan and we couldn't match it," Carter said.
ILLAWARRA PREMIER LEAGUE
Sunday (2.30pm)
Major semi-final: WOLLONGONG OLYMPIC v CORRIMAL at JJ Kelly Park
Minor semi-final: ALBION PARK v TARRAWANNA at Tarrawanna Oval
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