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Perth Glory vs Western Sydney Wanderers: A-League live scores

27th December, 2012
Teams

Perth Glory

1.Danny Vukovic
3.Bas van den Brink
4.Billy Mehmet
5.Steve Pantelidis
6.Nick Ward
7.Jacob Burns (c)
8.Dean Heffernan
9.Shane Smeltz
10.Liam Miller
11.Adrian Zahra
12.Ryo Nagai
13.Travis Dodd
14.Steven McGarry
15.Brandon O’Neill
18.Jesse Makarounas
17.Chris Harold
19.Josh Risdon
23.Michael Thwaite
30 Lewis Italiano (gk)

Four to be omitted

Western Sydney Wanderers

1. Ante Covic
2. Shannon Cole
3. Adam D’Apuzzo
4. Nikolai Topor-Stanley
5. Michael Beauchamp (c)
6. Jerome Polenz
7. Labinot Haliti
8. Mateo Poljak
9. Dino Kresinger
10. Aaron Mooy
11. Tarek Elrich
12. Tahj Minniecon
13. Joey Gibbs
14. Kwabena Appiah-Kubi
15. Reece Cairo
17. Youssouf Hersi
18. Iacopo La Rocca
19. Mark Bridge
20. Jerrad Tyson
21. Shinji Ono
23. Jason Trifiro

Six to be omitted

Kick-Off: 9.45pm AEDT
Venue: nib Stadium
Referee: Ben Williams
Last Time: Perth 0-1 Western Sydney
Betting: $2 Perth, $3.30 Draw, $3.50 Western Sydney
TV: Fox Sports 1 (LIVE)
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Both Perth Glory and Western Sydney Wanderers will be looking to entrench themselves in the top six when the two sides meet at nib Stadium tonight. We’ll have live scores from 9.45pm AEDT.

Is there a better story in the A-League than Tony Popovic’s Western Sydney Wanderers right now?

Cobbled together in the space of three months with a group of A-League journeyman, unknown foreigners and untried youth, the Wanderers’ squad was widely tipped to struggle this season.

But their structured, well-organised gameplan has so far stood up to the challenge and Western Sydney deservedly sit in fourth position on the A-League ladder.

After two big wins against Sydney and Adelaide the Wanderers get another test tonight when they travel to Perth, where they have already picked up a 1-0 win earlier in the season.

In the same space of time Ian Ferguson’s Perth Glory have turned over Newcastle 3-0 and won 1-0 away at Brisbane, and find themselves rising back up the table and into championship considerations.

Despite a surprisingly patchy record at home this season it is difficult to see Perth losing to the A-League’s new boys for a second time.

With Smeltz, Miller and Burns seemingly free of the issues that plagued them earlier in the season, the Glory have found their magic and should bring their supporters some festive cheer tonight.

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