Wanderers dent Melbourne's finals hopes
Western Sydney Wanderers' horror A-League home run at ANZ Stadium ended with a decisive 3-0 win over finals contenders Melbourne City.



| No. | Name | |
|---|---|---|
|
20
Vedran Janjetovic
Saves
2
|
||
|
21
Tarek Elrich
Goals
0
|
||
|
5
Brendan Hamill
Goals
0
|
||
|
24
Raúl Llorente
80'
Goals
0
|
||
|
11
Bruce Kamau
Goals
0
|
||
|
27
Kwame Yeboah
Goals
0
|
||
|
3
Giancarlo Gallifuoco
Goals
0
66'
17
Keanu Baccus
Goals
0
|
||
|
22
Rashid Mahazi
80'
Goals
0
|
||
|
9
Oriol Riera
35' 45'+2' 84'
Goals
2
|
||
|
28
Roly Bonevacia
Goals
0
45'
49
Abraham Majok
Goals
0
|
||
|
12
Mitchell Duke
53'
Goals
1
75'
10
Alexander Baumjohann
Goals
0
|
||
| Substitutes | ||
|
40
Nick Suman
Saves
0
|
||
|
13
Tass Mourdoukoutas
Goals
0
|
||

| No. | Name | |
|---|---|---|
|
18
Eugene Galekovic
Saves
0
|
||
|
25
Iacopo La Rocca
Goals
0
60'
19
Lachlan Wales
Goals
0
|
||
|
22
Curtis Good
90'
Goals
0
|
||
|
5
Bart Schenkeveld
Goals
0
|
||
|
4
Harrison Delbridge
Goals
0
|
||
|
2
Ritchie de Laet
Goals
0
|
||
|
7
Rostyn Griffiths
40'
Goals
0
75'
34
Conor Metcalfe
Goals
0
|
||
|
26
Luke Brattan
42'
Goals
0
|
||
|
15
Kearyn Baccus
Goals
0
|
||
|
27
Florin Berenguer
Goals
0
61'
8
Riley McGree
Goals
0
|
||
|
9
Shayon Harrison
80'
Goals
0
|
||
| Substitutes | ||
|
1
Mark Birighitti
Saves
0
|
||
|
21
Ramy Najjarine
Goals
0
|
||
| 90'+6' | Match ends, Western Sydney Wanderers FC 3, Melbourne City FC 0. | |
| 90'+6' | Second Half ends, Western Sydney Wanderers FC 3, Melbourne City FC 0. | |
| 90'+4' | Foul by Shayon Harrison (Melbourne City FC). |


![]() |
![]() |
|
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Fouls | 15 |
| 3 | Yellow Cards | 4 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 2 | Offsides | 1 |
| 6 | Corner Kicks | 4 |
| 2 | Saves | 0 |
| POS | Team | GP | GD | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth Glory | 23 | +25 | 51 |
| 2 | Sydney FC | 23 | +14 | 45 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 23 | +18 | 44 |
| 4 | Wellington Phoenix FC | 23 | +10 | 37 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 23 | 0 | 34 |
| 6 | Melbourne City FC | 23 | 0 | 33 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 23 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 23 | -8 | 23 |
| 9 | Brisbane Roar | 23 | -24 | 15 |
| 10 | Central Coast Mariners | 23 | -32 | 10 |
Newcastle Jets coach Ernie Merrick has given up hope of making the A-League finals.
The New Zealand international broke two toes on his right foot during the Phoenix's 4-1 win over Newcastle on Saturday.
Sydney FC defender Alex Wilkinson admits Melbourne Victory did his team a big favour but he's well aware they could snatch it away again this week.
Graham Arnold used to argue that the A-League was not a development league. Now, the Olyroos boss is concerned with Australia's shallow talent pool.
Adelaide United kept their finals hopes on track with a hard fought 1-0 win over Central Coast.
A fine strike from Isaias ended Adelaide's goal and win drought, with United grinding out a 1-0 win over Central Coast in Gosford.
To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies?