No Victory For Glory
By: Ben | November 2nd, 2009Perth Glory lost at home for the first time this season on Sunday arvo, with a 2-1 loss to champions Melbourne Victory.
I took in the game, arriving just in time to get a decent spot in the shade and amongst the festivities in The Shed.
But early on things didn’t really go to plan and, to be honest, we didn’t start well and it was ominous.
Carlos Hernandez got way too much space before having a wayward crack which deflected in off Chris Coyne.
The goal kinda brought Perth to life, which was good to see and Mile Sterjovski did the best thing he’s done since returning to Oz, with a brilliant turn and strike goal to level terms after 20 minutes.
We should’ve added another before the break with wave after wave of pressure. Eugene Dadi had the clearest chance after great work by the impressive Todd Howarth on the left.
But we didn’t add to our tally and Melbourne came out in the second-half the more determined and got the job done.
Sub Nathan Elasi was afforded too much space by left-back Naum Sekulovski and he whipped in a pinpoint cross which left Tando Velaphi clutching at thin air and Hernandez producing a Cahill-esque finish. 2-1.
We couldn’t really muster much else up and to be honest, Melbourne were better than us.
We had no decent subs on the bench. Ludovic Boi I think was a bit nervous and was hardly noticed, while Andrija Jukic has quality but lacks the smarts a tad. Jelic would’ve been good off the bench.
Anyway bad signs losing to Melbourne on our home paddock. I can’t see us doing much damage come finals time. But we’ve gotta get their first. I fancy us doing that, but I can’t see us going too far beyond that.
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