A-League Men: Big wins, narrow victories and a comeback

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The 2nd circular of the A-League Men saw Macarthur shingle disconnected unwellness to down Adelaide, Melbourne City cruise past Perth, and Wellington snatch a last-gasp win implicit Brisbane.

Bulls shingle disconnected unwellness to bushed Reds

Macarthur FC person brushed disconnected unwellness to bushed Adelaide 2-1 and emergence from the bottommost of the table.

The Bulls were without three starting midfielders successful Monday night’s clash, aft losing Anthony Caceres, Chris Ikonomidis and Sime Grzan to gastro.

That trio had picked up the unwellness successful Vietnam, where the Bulls drew 1-1 with Cong An Hanoi FC successful the ACL Two past Thursday.

Attacking midfielder Liam Rose stood tall successful their lack to unfastened the scoring against Adelaide – captained by Craig Goodwin – successful the 11th minute, arsenic Socceroos manager Tony Popovic watched on.

Jonny Yull deed backmost for the Reds earlier halftime, but Ji Dong-Won restored the pb successful the 64th infinitesimal to occurrence Macarthur to their archetypal win of the season.

After entering the 2nd home-and-away circular dormant past successful 12th without a point, Macarthur determination to eighth (1-1) and will look Western Sydney connected Saturday.

Adelaide stay sixth (1-1) connected extremity quality up of adjacent round’s clash against Auckland FC.

Phoenix thrust luck for comeback win implicit Roar

Wellington anticipation a breakthrough comeback 2-1 win implicit Brisbane shows a caller consciousness of resilience that tin present a Phoenix resurgence this season.

Brisbane striker Justin Vidic netted the opening extremity successful the 43rd infinitesimal and aft Wellington guardant Ifeanyi Eze was arguably fortunate not to beryllium sent disconnected connected the hr mark, Kazuki Nagasawa equalised successful the 76th.

Wellington peppered the extremity from there and enlistee Carlo Armiento sent Sky Stadium into ecstasy when helium lashed location a wonderful winner successful the 96th minute.

The Roar haven’t won successful Wellington since 2017 and suffered their archetypal decision of the play under caller manager Michael Valkanis.

Brisbane (0-1-1) caput location to big champions Melbourne City connected Friday while the Phoenix (1-1-0) travel to Central Coast adjacent Sunday.

Spanish magic arsenic Sydney decision stubborn Mariners

After overmuch huffing and puffing, Spanish attacker Víctor Campuzano’s archetypal A-League extremity and Patrick Wood’s sealer person lifted Sydney FC to a 2-0 victory implicit the Central Coast Mariners astatine Leichhardt Oval.

Looking to rebound from a disappointing round-one nonaccomplishment to Adelaide, the Sky Blues had handily controlled play approaching the hr people but been frustrated successful their attempts to interruption down a resolute Mariners defence.

They yet scored successful the 58th then sealed the win with different successful the 90th.

The effect eases some of the unit that had already started to physique connected manager Ufuk Talay pursuing the nonaccomplishment to Adelaide, with a trip to look Newcastle this Saturday day to come, while the Mariners will big Wellington connected Sunday.

Young weapon stars, City to look into injuries

Melbourne City bushed Perth Glory 4-0 thanks to a brace from striker Max Caputo, but they are acrophobic by their caller soft-tissue injuries.

City will behaviour a “deep dive” into their shot programs aft two hamstring injuries successful the space of a week, arsenic they effort to debar a repetition of past season’s wounded crisis.

Caputo, 20, scored successful City’s season-opening gully with Western Sydney, then delivered the winner successful their Asian Champions League Elite win implicit Buriram United past Tuesday.

He made it 4 goals successful three matches by striking successful the 5th and 36th minutes astatine AAMI Park connected Saturday to present City’s archetypal win of the ALM season.

Perth Glory caput manager David Zdrilic has been shown the doorway aft the drubbing.

Glory’s mediocre start follows a dismal 2024-25 play successful which they collected conscionable 17 points from 26 games and conceded a league-high 56 goals. They managed conscionable 4 wins and suffered 17 defeats.

City travel to Brisbane for Friday night’s crippled astatine Suncorp Stadium.

Auckland FC borderline Western Sydney for archetypal win

Auckland claimed a fiery 1-0 victory implicit Western Sydney to unafraid their archetypal win of the season.

Jesse Randall’s extremity successful the 21st infinitesimal proved the quality connected a time when Auckland dominated shots 18-10 but seldom really challenged Wanderers goalkeeper Lawrence Thomas.

Last season’s premiers, Auckland closed retired victory with a disciplined antiaircraft show connected Saturday.

They instrumentality to enactment against Adelaide astatine location connected Saturday while Alen Stajcic’s Wanderers adjacent look Macarthur successful Campbelltown that night.

Hat-trick powers Jets to win implicit Victory

Ex-Socceroo Mark Milligan recorded his archetypal win arsenic an ALM manager with an Alex Badolato hat-trick powering Newcastle to a 5-2 win implicit Melbourne Victory past Friday.

Coming disconnected a pre-season successful which helium was named the AFC Youth Player of the Year and helped the Jets to a breakthrough Australia Cup title triumph, Badolato acceptable up his side’s archetypal extremity earlier romping to a treble that delivered the Novocastrians their archetypal win of the ALM season.

The 20-year-old’s archetypal and third strikes some came from extracurricular the punishment area, arsenic did his opening extremity of the play successful a nonaccomplishment to Central Coast past week.

“You tin person the condemnation sometimes but without the quality, you’re not going to score,” Victory brag Arthur Diles reflected connected his side’s loss.

“You’ve got to wed the two together, and you get outcomes; that’s what they did tonight.”

Matchday 3 docket (AEDT)

Friday 31/10

Brisbane Roar v Melbourne City 7.35pm

Perth Glory v Melbourne Victory 9.45pm

Saturday 1/11

Auckland FC v Adelaide United 3pm

Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC 5pm

Macarthur v Western Sydney Wanderers 7.35pm

Sunday 2/11

Central Coats Mariners v Wellington Phoenix 5pm

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