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

Thanks for joining us tonight for our live coverage of this one! Commiserations to anyone of a Wanderers persuasion but Glory fans will be excited about their side's potential going into the later stages of this campaign.

Match report: Perth Glory produced an outstanding display of counter-attacking football to gain all three points against the struggling Western Sydney Wanderers by one goal to nil. For a team massively out of form, head coach Markus Babbel would have urged his players to keep things tight in the opening exchanges but this was clearly lost on Dylan McGowan - the centre back attempted a weak pass infield that Jake Brimmer gleefully intercepted before Bruno Fornaroli drove forward with the ball and side-footed past Daniel Lopar with the aid of a fortunate deflection. This settled Glory into their rhythm and the away side were simply sharper in every aspect of play, their movement and crisp passing constantly cutting through the Wanderers midfield. It's become customary when covering A-League games in recent weeks to devote a lot of time to discussing VAR and this evening's game was no different. It was first used when Wanderers believed they had found an equaliser after Daniel Georgievski's wildly mishit shot rebounded off Kwame Yeboah and into the net but replays clearly showed that it had hit the attacker's outstretched arm; Joel Chianese then thought he had given Glory a comfortable cushion as the game wore on when he was played through and slotted his shot under Lopar but the check adjudged him to be offside by the tightest of margins. The game was stretched by this point, huge gaps in the middle of the pitch not being exploited, and in truth Glory never looked fazed in seeing out the time - including a huge eight minutes added at the end - to take the three points back to Western Australia. Sitting in third place in the table, Glory are only two points behind Melbourne City but crucially have a game in hand over them. With Fornaroli and the sublime Diego Castro linking wonderfully in attack, last year's Grand Final runner-ups look the likeliest to challenge Sydney FC during this campaign again. They'll travel to face Melbourne City next Friday in buoyant mood but it's their opponents today who are under the real pressure. Time surely has run out for Babbel and he looked like a defeated man at the end of the game. All their early season promise has completely evaporated and they look like a team devoid of an identity and structure. They had 62% of the possession against Glory but two shots on target out of 22 is the damning statistic. New signing Simon Cox watched on from the stands and he should be introduced immediately into the team but it's a lot of pressure to heap on a striker who's struggled in England's League One this season. Perhaps the only consolation for Wanderers is that they have next weekend off, and the club would do well to use it as wisely as possible to sort their issues out before they face Central Coast Mariners in February.

There's no doubt that the away side deserved the three points. Match report to follow!

FULL TIME: And that will be it! Glory hold on for the 1-0 victory.

Adam wins a corner for Wanderers. This will be their last opportunity.

96' - Jurman ventures forward from central defence and tees up a wild shot that wastes Wanderers' momentum. Only a few minutes left.

94' - Fornaroli does well to hold possession but Schwegler frustratingly kicks out to give Glory a timely foul. Wanderers 0-1 Glory

91' - SUBSTITUTION - The wonderful Castro is replaced by Popovic. Wanderers 0-1 Glory

A huge eight minutes have been added by the referee.

88' - Russell fizzes a shot across the grass through a plethora of bodies but it goes wide. Wanderers 0-1 Glory

87' - Adam powers past his marker on the left and hits a deep cross the brings a corner. Time running out for the home side to equalise.

Yeboah is down in agony for Wanderers who have no changes remaining. This could be problematic for Babbel.

Popovic also comes on for Brimmer for Glory.

Adam is coming onto the pitch for Muller. That's a somewhat surprising substitution for Wanderers and the crowd seem taken aback by the decision.

81' - The crowd urge Duke to shoot but he disappoints them with a useless shot that hits the stand behind the goal. Wanderers 0-1 Glory

78' - Wuthrich saves the day for the away side with a superb block when Duke was ready to smash the ball home for Wanderers.

77' - SUBSTITUTION - Meredith trotts off for Glory to be replaced by Tratt. Wanderers 0-1 Glory