Melbourne City defeated Adelaide United 5-0 to consolidate their finals hopes though Sunday’s win at was soured by a bad injury to City youngster Nathaniel Atkinson.
City’s Dario Vidosic with a contender for goal of the season and City sub Ross McCormack with another super strike sealed a fabulous day for Warren Joyce’s men.
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- ELSEY’S TOP TACKLE Reds’ Jordan Elsey with a peach of a tackle, timed perfectly to end Fitzgerald’s incursion into the box: 6mins
- GOLDEN CHANCE FOR REDS Apo Stamatelopoulos brushes aside Jakobsen and in a one-on-one with the keeper tamely hits it into Bouzanis’ legs. Should be 0-1. 15 mins
- GOAL! Marcin Budzinski with his second goal in as many weeks. 1-0 to City after 30 mins.
- GOAL! Budzinski again! 2-0 to City after 34 mins.
- GREAT SAVE BY BOUZANIS Adlung with a curling shot tipped wide by the City keeper just on the break.
- HALF-TIME: 2-0 City in the lead. They’ve dominated proceedings with the Reds rueing the early Stamatelopoulos miss.
- ARZANI BRILLIANCE: How good is he? Some brilliant trickery almost opens up the Reds again on the hour mark.
- BLACKWOOD DENIED Bouzanis saves Blackwood’s effort as he drifted inside the central channel to find space to shoot. 66 mins.
- BAD INJURY City’s young defender Nathaniel Atkinson fell awkwardly with 20 mins left, leading to a long delay with the player in terrible pain. Wishing the youngster all the best.
- McCORMACK HITS BAR The Scot unlucky with his attempt
- 10 MINS OF TIME ADDED ON
- VIDOSIC STUNNING GOAL! Wow, Vidosic with a rocket! 3-0 on 89 mins.
- VIDOSIC SCORES HIS SECOND: 92 mins
- McCORMACK SMASHES A FIFTH: The Scot putting the gloss on a fantastic day for City
GOALS
Budzinski City 1-0, 30′
City work it short from a corner and Arzani feeds Budzinski on the edge of the box, his deflected shot beats Margush in the Reds goal.
Budzinski City 2-0, 34′
Fitgerald’s cross finds Vidosic’s head and in turn he finds the Pole who scrambles home his second.
Vidosic City 3-0, 89′
Fitzgerald to Vidosic who chests the ball into the box, he runs onto it and fires a bullet at goal with Margush no chance to save that one. What an awesome goal by Vidosic.
Vidosic City 4-0, 92′
Vidosic takes the ball into the edge of the box and he slides it past Margush into the back of the net
McCormack City 5-0, 96′
Mauk feeds McCormack and from outside the box and he hits it to the top corner of the net. Amazing goal!
