Adelaide United have gotten themselves into the winners circle, recording a 2-0 win at home over the Wellington Phoenix.
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Final score
Adelaide United 2
Wellington Phoenix 0
Adelaide United (last) and Wellington Phoenix (2nd last) will do battle at Coopers Stadium as both sides look to kick-start their campaign. Join The Roar for live scores and blog from 7pm AEDT.
Adelaide are in the exact same position as last season. Struggling to get a victory with only managing three draws for the season so far. They will also being without head coach Amor on the sidelines with the Spaniard in the stands for the second weekend in a row.
United did probably put in their best performance of the season last week with a 0-0 draw against the top of the table Sydney. Some may say Sydney had one eye on the FFA Cup final but Amor will be looking to build from that and hopefully snatch the first three points of the season.
Phoenix on the other hand aren’t fairing much better with just the two wins for the seasons so far and may be last at the conclusion of this match on goal difference.
Last week Phoenix could count themselves a bit unlucky to not at least walk away with a point after a 2-1 loss to City. A dubious penalty in the second half was awared to give City the three points. Like most weeks Phoenix have really good spells but just havent been able to put it together for the full 90 yet.
Neither team has any notable omissions from last round and I would expect both teams to name the same eleven for this week.
Prediction
Really tricky match trying to work out who will win. If Adelaide can match the level they played at last week it should be enough to take the three points. Wellington if they manage to play a consistent 90 they could also get the win. Going to go safe and and say neither team manages to to reach any dazzling heights and further puts in jeopardy boths teams chances of playing finals.
1-1 draw.
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Stevo
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"Man of the match has to go to Henrique the now Australian citizen was superb in the first half with those 2 world class goals." Socceroo bound???
Mat Datson
Roar Guru
Match Report: Atlast Adelaide walk away from a match with 3 Points. They can largely thank Henrique who in the first half managed to hit 2 bombs from outside the box. Adelaide dominated majority of the first half apart from in the 21st minute when Mcgowan was adjudged to have fouled Parkhouse to earn the away team there best chance of the game. For the 2nd week in a row though Krishna failed to score from the spot except this week couldnt score from the follow up. The first goal came in the 26th minute after the ball bounced around in the box it came out to Henrique who was standing at the top of the box to absolutley nailed his left foot shot. Phoenix's best player all night Moss had no chance of getting to that. The Final goal of the match came in the 39rd minute when Isaias earnt his team a free kick in a dangerous position. It results in a set play cut back to Henrique who was free at the top of the box and this time on his right foot curled in another beauty. Glen moss was by far and away Wellington's best player tonight with another of great saves in 1on1 situations,without the stopper it could have got real ugly for the away side. In the 2nd half wellington had some decent spells of the ball but the only time they looked dangerous was from a Finkler dead ball. Apart from that they never really threatended Galekovic. They did score once but Watson was correctly called offside. Adelaide late on did believe and from my eyes look like they had scored a 3rd goal but the linesman flagged him for a handball. Very suspect call as it did not look like much from the replays. With the head coach Amor allowed back on the sidelines next week maybe Adelaide can start to repeat last seasons efforts where there first win for the season also came in round 9. Man of the match has to go to Henrique the now Australian citizen was superb in the first half with those 2 world class goals.
Mat Datson
Roar Guru
Fulltime United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Phoenix end the game with a horrible corner and thats that. United win 2-0 thanks to 2 amazing goals from Henrique in the first half from outside the box.
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90' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 3 Minutes of stoppage time to be played at Coopers Stadium
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89' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Substitution Isaias OFF Makarounas ON
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88' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Barbarouses skips past a defender but his shot is well wide. Sums up the day for Phoenix
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85' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 CHANCE! Marino is put through and should be scoring but once again Moss to the rescue. The Phoenix keeper has been superb all season.
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81' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Substitution Kitto OFF Marino ON
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78' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Adelaide think they have scored a 3rd with Kitto putting the ball in the back off the net. Linesman has flagged for a handball though. Pretty stiff id say
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76' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Double Substitution Parkhouse, Finkler OFF Ridenton Fenton ON Merrick trying everything now to salvage something
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74' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Offside Watson scores for Phoenix but he is well offside.
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72' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Substitution Henrique OFF Mileusnic On Huge cheer for the brazilian as he walks off
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68' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Yellow Card Bonevacia gets the card for abuse towards the ref as Isaias stays down after very minimal contact.
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66' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 CHANCE! Adelaide almost make it 3-0 but Guardiola shot is blocked.
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64' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Phoenix has been the better side in this half so far. Finkler with another ball into the box from a dead ball but it is well handled.
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61' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Substiution Rodriguez OFF Watson ON
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59' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Watson warming up on the sidelines as Phoenix need to make a change to make something happen.
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57' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Krishna with a nice turn and shoot but is deflected for a corner.
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53' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Kitto tries to slide a ball across the box to the main man Henqirue but the ball is cleared.
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51' United 2 vs Phoenix 0 Finkler with a shot from the deadball which goes straight to Galekovic