New Sky Blues striker becomes an instant hit Ranko Despotovic will remember his Sydney FC debut. Ranko Despotovic thanked the heavens after scoring the match-winning goal deep in injury time on his Sydney FC debut on Saturday. But there was nothing divine about it. The Serbian striker arrived from the frosts of Europe just six days earlier and said the rain in Sydney during the week gave him a bit of help in acclimatising. "I had troubles for the first few nights with jetlag," Despotovic said. And in Europe it's winter now, in my country it's very cold. Then I came here, but I had luck because it was raining so I could adapt a little bit more. Despotovic thanked Frank Farina for having the faith to send him on in the 67th minute. It turned out to be a good decision by the coach, as the 30-year-old latched on to Seb Ryall's cross to score the clincher after Kenny Cunningham's equaliser for the Phoenix had all but ensured the visitors a share of the spoils. "When you score a goal in the last seconds of the game it's really fantastic," Despotovic said. It was really hard after the red card. We tried to stay at 1-0 and then we conceded the goal in the 90th minute. But you can't give up. My colleagues did that, and in the last minute we made a good counter-attack and I had the luck to score a goal. Despotovic could not have hoped for a better settler at his new home. "I'm just here five days," he said. I'm just starting to know the people in the club, my colleagues, our style, how we are going to play - and then you come here and bring a very important victory for us. But we need to continue to win if we want to do something great. The coach agreed. Sydney FC play the Newcastle Jets next, and Farina is adamant they should not become complacent after a third consecutive win. "I said to the players during the week this game was a potential banana skin," Farina said. You get a bit confident, look at themselves in the mirror and say how good we are. But games like this you can fall apart. We didn't, thankfully, and that's a lesson for all of us. He was not happy with the way the team played, saying: "In general, I expect better. What I've been preaching all along is consistency. Three in a row's nice, but four in a row is even nicer. It's nice to be a little higher up. But that pressure doesn't go away. It's still there. We can't get carried away. It's just three points.