2010 A-League Grand Final

2010 A-League Grand Final
Event 2009–10 A-League
Melbourne Victory Sydney FC
1 1
Sydney won 4–2 on penalties
Date 20 March 2010
Venue Etihad Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Man of the Match Simon Colosimo, Sydney FC
Referee Strebre Delovski [1]
Attendance 44,560

The 2010 A-League Grand Final took place at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on 20 March 2010.

It was the final match in the A-League 2009–10 season, and was played between premiers Sydney FC and runners-up Melbourne Victory. Sydney FC won the match 4–2 on penalty shootout after drawing the game 1–1 and became the winners of the 2009–10 Championship in addition to their premiership.[2]

The A-League National Youth League Grand Final was held at Etihad Stadium prior to the main game. After coming 4th in the 2009–10 season, Gold Coast United won the youth title in their inaugural season, coming from a goal down to defeat Perth Glory, 2–1.[3]

Route to the final

  Semi Finals Week 1 Semi Finals Week 2 Preliminary Final Grand Final
    A - 18 February       D - 7 March               G - 20 March  
  1  Sydney FC  1 —  Sydney FC  2    Melbourne Victory  1 (2)
  2  Melbourne Victory  2 —  Melbourne Victory (a.e.t.)  2              Sydney FC (p.s.o)  1 (4)
                    F - 13 March          
    B - 20 February                Sydney FC  4        
  3  Gold Coast United  0 (5)              Wellington Phoenix  2        
  6  Newcastle Jets (p.s.o)  0 (6)     E - 7 March                  
             Wellington Phoenix (a.e.t.)  3                
    C - 21 February        Newcastle Jets  1                
  4  Wellington Phoenix (p.s.o)  1 (4)                        
  5  Perth Glory  1 (2)                        

Match

Summary

An early knee injury forced key striker Archie Thompson, who scored 5 goals in the 2007 A-League Grand Final, off the field in the sixteenth minute. He was replaced by Costa Rican Marvin Angulo.

With both teams struggling to break the deadlock, Melbourne were left stunned when Mark Bridge scored a goal in the 63rd minute after a deflected cross. To add to Melbourne's misfortune, it was scored less than a minute after Rodrigo Vargas' headed goal was correctly disallowed by the assistant referee for offside.

Melbourne were able to find an equaliser through Adrian Leijer after Kevin Muscat delivered a set piece. Leijer's late header resulted in some frantic final minutes, but neither team were able to find the breakthrough goal in normal time. Extra time resulted in few opportunities and the game was decided by penalties for the first time in A-League history.

Details

20 March 2010
19:00 UTC+11
Melbourne Victory 1 – 1 (a.e.t.) Sydney FC
Leijer  81' Report
Summary 		Bridge  63'
  Penalties  
Muscat
Brebner
Angulo
Broxham 		2 – 4 Colosimo
Cole
Foxe
Kisel
Byun
Etihad Stadium, Melbourne
Attendance: 44,560[4]
Referee: Strebre Delovski
Melbourne
Sydney
MELBOURNE VICTORY:
GK 1 Australia Mitchell Langerak
DF 2 Australia Kevin Muscat (c)  62'
DF 5 Thailand Surat Sukha  71'
MF 6 Australia Leigh Broxham
MF 8 Scotland Grant Brebner
FW 10 Australia Archie Thompson  16'
DF 12Australia Rodrigo Vargas
MF 16 Costa Rica Carlos Hernández
FW 21 Australia Robbie Kruse
MF 22Australia Nick Ward  76'
DF 23Australia Adrian Leijer 81'
Substitutes:
GK 20New Zealand Glen Moss
MF 11 Costa Rica Marvin Angulo  16'
DF 17Australia Matthew Foschini
DF 19 Australia Evan Berger  100' 71'
FW 25 Australia Aziz Behich  76'
Manager:
Scotland Ernie Merrick


Joe Marston Medal: Australia Simon Colosimo

Assistant Referees: Ben Wilson Matthew Cream
Fourth Official:Matthew Breeze
SYDNEY FC:
GK 1 Australia Clint Bolton
DF 2 Australia Sebastian Ryall  26'
DF 3 Switzerland Stephan Keller
DF 4 Australia Simon Colosimo  51'
MF 6 Slovakia Karol Kisel  84'
MF 8 Australia Stuart Musialik  105'
FW 14Australia Alex Brosque  116'
MF 15Northern Ireland Terry McFlynn (c)
FW 16 Australia Chris Payne  75'
FW 19 Australia Mark Bridge 63' 31'
DF 22South Korea Byun Sung-Hwan
Substitutes:
GK 20Australia Ivan Necevski
DF 5 Australia Hayden Foxe  105'
MF 7Australia Brendan Gan
DF 12 Australia Shannon Cole  75'
FW 31 Australia Joey Gibbs  116'
Manager:
Czech Republic Vitezslav Lavicka


A-League
2010 Champions
Australia
Sydney FC
Second Title

Statistics

Melbourne Sydney
Attempts at goal 14 12
Attempts on target 6 6
Attempts off target 7 6
Attempts - woodwork 1 0
Keeper saves 3 4
Ball possession 51% 49%
Corners 8 5
Fouls committed 13 16
Offsides 3 3
Yellow cards 2 4
Red cards 0 0

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A-League Grand Final To Be Refereed By Strebre Delovski". Goal.com. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Sydney FC claim A-League title". ESPN. 2010-03-20. Archived from the original on 23 March 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
  3. ↑ "Tahj secures glory for Gold Coast". A-League.com.au. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
  4. ↑ The stadium was configured into rectangular mode for the match

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