Perth Glory stay rooted to the underside of the A-League Males desk regardless of promising indicators in a 1-1 draw with Wellington Phoenix at Macedonia Park.
David Williams opened the scoring with a pinpoint header, earlier than Wellington equalized by means of Oskar Zawada shortly after.
Like final week, Perth had the higher of the sport, however had been unable to make it rely on the scoreboard.
The Melbourne Derby’s hero referee Alex King made his return after the ugly scenes at AAMI Park final weekend, however was not required within the VAR field.
In a bodily, bruising first half, Glory loved extra of the ball within the early phases, with Mustafa Amini and Aaron McEneff impressing in the midst of the park.
Glory’s first huge probability of the sport got here when Selim Khelifi and Ryan Williams mixed down the fitting, however Keegan Jelacic fired the latter’s cross over the bar.
As anticipated, the Glory’s supporters’ teams saved their phrase and left the stadium on the 20 minute mark, in protest towards the choice to maneuver the A-Leagues grand remaining to Sydney for the subsequent three seasons.
However their protest was considerably upstaged when the damaging Khelifi whipped a low ball into the field as followers streamed out of the stadium and David Williams’s low diving header discovered the nook of the online.
Nevertheless, Perth’s lead was erased when Wellington scored with their first actual probability of the sport as Zawada completed off a pleasant little bit of interaction from Bozhidar Kraev and Yan Sasse.
Zawada nearly nabbed a second with an acrobatic volley quickly after, however Liam Reddy was capable of cope with his shot, whereas up the opposite finish, Jelacic got here shut with one other curling effort, earlier than Aaron McEneff nearly had Phoenix ‘keeper Oli Sail flummoxed with a dipping effort from vary.
The primary half of the second interval was devoid of clear lower probabilities, with Steven Ugarkovic testing Reddy and Sail palming Jack Clisby’s free kick over the bar.
Perth turned the screws with Amini and McEneff controlling the sport, however Wellington appeared harmful on the counter and Mark Beevers was known as on twice to make essential interventions.
Luke Ivanovic got here near a late winner, however his header was denied by the crossbar.
Perth Glory 1 (D. Williams 22′)
Reddy; Muir, Beevers, Lachman; Khelifi, Amini (Duncan 86′), McEneff, Jelacic, Clisby (Forde 86′); R Williams (Zimarino 86′), D Williams (Ivanovic 64′).
Yellow playing cards: D. Williams, Jelacic.
Wellington Phoenix 1 (Zawada 31′)
Sail; Elliot, Wootton, Legal guidelines, Mauragis (Sutton 46′); Sasse (Barbarouses 69′), Ugarkovic, Lewis (Pennington 76′), Kraev (Rufer 90+1′); Zawada, Ball.
Yellow playing cards: Wootton, Lewis, Legal guidelines, Zawada.
Referee: Casey Reibelt.
Attendance: 3977 at Macedonia Park.
