Perth Glory and Brisbane Roar have played out a 1-1 draw at ME Bank Stadium on Sunday to complete round 17 of the A-League.

The draw means the Glory have won just once in seven matches, but they remain in fifth position, while the Roar remains eighth two points behind sixth-placed Newcastle.

The Roar came into the game without Charlie Miller, who has left the club when told he couldn’t be guaranteed a game next season.

Danny Tiatto, Reinaldo, Matt McKay and Ivan Franjic were also out injured but the Roar still scored first through Luke DeVere in the 52nd minute.

The Glory hit back when returning veteran Jamie Harnwell got on the end of a good build-up to score in his first game back from a knee injury suffered in round seven.

The final 15 minutes saw Perth continue to attack and Todd Howarth hit a cracker of a strike, but it was well saved by Griffin McMaster and the draw was the result.

Early on, Brisbane’s returning attacker Henrique did put the ball in the net in the 10th minute but he was ruled offside by referee Strebre Delovski.

After that it was all the Glory with the best chance coming in the 17th minute when Naum Sekulovski sent in a dangerous cross that Branko Jelic got on the end of and his header hit the crossbar.

Jelic got off another good shot that was tipped over the bar by McMaster as well and Perth continued to attack, but the final ball in the box was letting the home side down.

Perth not taking their chances came back to haunt them when the Roar scored seven minutes into the second half.

Adam Sarota took the corner and after a header from Josh McCloughan, DeVere swooped and put it straight by Glory ‘keeper Tando Velaphi.

The Roar appeared happy with the 1-0 lead and tried plenty of stalling tactics, but that backfired in the 78th minute when Howarth crossed the ball in for the Glory and Harnwell swooped on the loss ball to slip it under the keeper to secure the draw.

The Glory now travels to Townsville to play North Queensland on Friday night while Brisbane hosts Adelaide on Saturday.

Roar coach Ange Postecoglou was disappointed to not leave Perth with a win after taking a 1-0 lead.

“We are disappointed,” he said.

“When you are a goal up away from home you feel like it’s two points dropped.

“We got in front and the players also felt they could have grinded out a result.

“The players wanted to make no excuses, so that shows to me they are prepared to put in what’s needed to finish off our season strongly.

“With all the injuries and a couple of departures, I’m confident that if we create the right environment for our players that they will all step up.”

The Glory missed a chance to enter the top-four, but after falling behind the draw was a reasonable result for coach Dave Mitchell.

“We dominated most of the game and had a few chances in the first half, then in the end when we conceded the goal it was great that we came back to sneak the draw,” he said.

“We’re happy with the draw in the end, but disappointed overall not to get the three points,” Mitchell said.

“When you try to open teams up you have to be very sharp and make sure your touches were good

“I felt there were just a few players that weren’t on song and that reflected in some of the sloppy passing that we had.”

© AAP 2012

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