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Gun playmaker Rhianna Pollicina has steered Melbourne Metropolis to a 1-Zero win over Adelaide United to maintain it firmly within the A-League Girls’s premiership race.
Pollicina’s pretty curling strike within the 54th minute proved the distinction at AAMI Park, sending Metropolis 4 video games unbeaten whereas extending Adelaide’s winless run to 6.
Metropolis is second on 25 factors behind Western United (27) and forward of Sydney FC (21, however with two video games in hand).
Fifth-placed Adelaide (13) stays 5 factors behind fourth-placed Victory.
Sunday evening’s match was delayed by 45 minutes as a consequence of stoppages within the previous males’s recreation brought on by a critical leg damage to Adelaide United midfielder Juande.
It took time for each groups to seek out their means into the sport, with one of the best likelihood of the primary half coming when Metropolis’s Julia Grosso hit the bar within the 19th minute.
However 9 minutes into the second half, Metropolis discovered its breakthrough.
Leticia McKenna labored the ball to Grosso and the winger slipped by means of Pollicina.
The attacking midfielder reduce round Nanako Sasaki and coolly curled her fifth objective of the season round Annalee Grove.
Metropolis continued to press and Grove made a superb save within the 68th minute to disclaim Pollicina a second.
Adelaide was not completely happy when Maruschka Waldus was knocked down contained in the field throughout a nook within the 81st minute however nothing got here of it.
Hannah Wilkinson might have made it 2-Zero when she obtained on the top of a stunning Chelsea Blissett cross within the 84th minute however the striker despatched her athletic close-range volley over the bar.
Shortly after, Grove did brilliantly to cease teenager Daniela Galic from charging into objective.
Adelaide had a late likelihood when substitute Meisha Westland pressured a save from Sally James, who was in any other case not often troubled in objective.
Metropolis was with out veteran keeper Melissa Barbieri, who’s sidelined for eight weeks with a calf damage.
-AAP
