Melbourne City jumped back into the top four on the Isuzu UTE A-League table after a 1-0 win over Newcastle Jets at McDonald Jones Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Teenage City academy product Kavian Rahmani scored the decisive winner in the scorching heat in Newcastle.
After the visitors took the lead, it was goalkeeper Patrick Beach who stole the show with several big saves that helped the recent Socceroos debutant keep his fifth clean sheet in seven games to begin the 2025-26 campaign.
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Beach denied Jets defender Mark Natta an equalising goal in the second half of the 1-0 City win with a point-blank, fingertip intervention to divert the powerful first-time effort off target and off the crossbar.
Paramount+ co-commentator Andy Harper praised Beach for his impact on City’s fortunes in the aftermath of the crucial save as the 22-year-old continues to impress through the early stage of his career.
“The guy is a freak, he’s in such amazing form,” Harper told Paramount+.
“Patrick Beach has pulled off enough massive saves in the last four to five weeks to complete a career highlight reel. It’s amazing.
“There has been a litany of matches for Melbourne City where he’s stood between victory and defeat… he finds a way, Patrick Beach. He is an amazing prospect.”
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The 1-0 win lifted City up to third on the Isuzu UTE A-League table and left Newcastle just one point clear of bottom-placed Melbourne Victory.
